Accessibility standards
Based on UW-Extension's accessibility policy, certain guidelines must be followed to make Word documents, PDF files, Web sites and all other media accessible to all users. What needs to be done, how to do it and why is explained by the links below. For a full, printable list of these standards, please download the accessibility standards PDF.
For documents
For the Web
- Font
- Alt text
- Links
- Skip navigation
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Tables
- Forms
- Blinking and animation
- Multimedia
- Image maps
- Cascading Style Sheets
- Roll over
- Screen refresh
- Timed response
For application development
- Designing Web applications (PDF courtesy of DoIT)
- Scripting for accessibility ( PDF courtesy of DoIT)