Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

Give your links unique and descriptive names

Screen reader users often use a feature called a "Link List" to quickly pull up a listing of all links on a page. This dialog allows them to quickly get to a link that they are looking for on the page. For this reason you should try to provide unique and meaningful text to each of your links. Text like "Click Here" on a link should be avoided. Use language for your links that fully describes where the link is taking the user.

A more comprehensive tutorial on creating accessible web forms will be posted soon on the IT Accessibility site. A common mistake made on web forms is not properly labeling your form fields. The following guidelines should be considered when designing your forms:

ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is an easy and powerful technical specification for ensuring your site structure is accessible. By assigning ARIA roles and landmarks to web elements, you enhance the ability of screen reader users to navigate and interact with your content. ARIA roles and landmarks can be easily added to your HTML, in the same way that you add classes to HTML in order to load attributes from CSS. Consider the following:

WordPress and Drupal are two of the best content management systems available that have very good accessibility features. The issue with using a content management system is not the core CMS but rather the data that is put into CMS. Careful considerations should be considered when developing your content to make sure that is inclusive for everyone who visits your site. Consider the following resources for content management systems: