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Accessibility Coaching

General accessibility

ESDC is committed to ensuring the accessibility of its website and desktop assets. These coaching sessions outline federal standards and guidelines on accessibility and emphasizes the requirements, roles and responsibilities involved in compliance with these standards.

Tutorials Overview

This collection of tutorials shows you how to develop web content that is accessible to people with disabilities, and that provides a better user experience for everyone.

The tutorials are designed to be used by a variety of individuals, including:

Web developers will find guidance and boilerplate solutions for many common coding challenges.
Web designers will learn how to create web page components with a built-in inclusive design.
Web trainers will find examples to teach people about accessible web design and development.
Content authors will learn concepts and techniques for preparing their content in an accessible way.
Project managers will gain an understanding of ways to integrate accessibility into their projects.

Web authoring tools (Content Management Systems (CMS), WYSIWYG editors, word processors, etc.) can often help you create content that is accessible as shown in these tutorials.Read more

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Always provide text alternatives (alt text) for all non-text content.

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Decorative Image

Some examples include large print, braille, speech, symbols or simpler language.

Alt text characters

Alt text should describe the image and except for rare occasions, must not exceed 125 characters (including spaces).

Relationship to WCAG

These tutorials provide best-practice guidance on implementing accessibility in different situations. They combine WCAG 2 success criteria and techniques from various conformance levels.
Each tutorial page lists the specific success criteria and techniques used on that page.

A more comprehensive coverage of the normative WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1 standards and their supporting materials is provided here More>>.

Additional Resources

How People with Disabilities Use the Web: An introduction covering a variety of disabilities, including age-related impairments
Accessibility Principles: Introduces some of the web accessibility requirements for websites, web applications, browsers, and other tools
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview: Introduces the international standard that defines requirements on how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) Overview: Introduces the international standard that defines requirements on how to make web authoring tools that support accessibility for people with disabilities