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Getting Started with Digital Accessibility

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Monitor your website for accessibility. It’s the right thing to do.

Let’s begin (again) together

  • If you're new to digital accessibility, welcome! Discover the basics and find your footing with beginner-friendly tools and training.
  • If you've strayed from your practice, let's reset and reconnect. Dive back in and stay in touch at our events such as monthly Digital Accessibility Office Hours. 
  • If you're a regular, keep your skills up-to-date. Engage with others across campus doing the same type of work.

Test early, test often

  1. Monitor your site at least once a month. Set aside time to test, monitor and remediate issues. Use the testing approach detailed on our Testing for Digital Accessibility page. This page hosts 2 recordings showing how to manually test your website.
  2. Monitor all content types for accessibility. Refer to these one-page best practices for images, forms, PDFs, video, documents, and color contrast ratios.
  3. Sign up for monthly Digital Accessibility Office Hours to bring your follow-up testing questions and meet others doing the same type of accessibility work.

Tools

  1. Is Siteimprove the right tool for your site? Most likely yes if it is a public-facing website. Probably not if your site is available only on VPN and/or behind a login. Exceptions may apply.
  2. Siteimprove’s browser plug-in plus other free testing tools are listed on the Testing for Digital Accessibility page.

Training & Events

Keep your accessibility skills sharp. Take baby steps to build your knowledge. 

  1. Start here at the UCSF Intro to Digital Accessibility page if you are new to the topic. 
  2. For Siteimprove beginners, watch this recorded Siteimprove User Training.
  3. See our training page for events and more recommended curriculum.
  4. Engage with others doing the same type through the Digital Accessibility Community of Practice.
  5. Discover the screen reader user's experience navigating a featured UCSF website each month at Testing Websites with Users with Disabilities.

References

  1. UCSF Policies & Standards
  2. UCSF Digital Accessibility Program
  3. University of California Information Technology Accessibility Policy (ITAP)

If you need help outside of Digital Accessibility Office Hours, please enter a Digital Accessibility Consultation.