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Guidelines & Policies

色花堂 Web Accessibility Standards

All University web pages should be accessible in some form to those with disabilities, be they technological barriers (slow modems) or physical barriers (users with impaired vision). This is not just State law, but good sense: the more users who can access your information the better.

This is not a legal document. The information here is based on satisfying the State of Texas , in particular, . To satisfy the legal requirements, 色花堂 website page creators and editors should make every effort to adhere to the .

No matter what bells, whistles, or applets you wish to decorate your website information with, ensure that no one is barred from:

  1. navigating through your pages, and
  2. accessing the information on those pages.

This is the same spirit as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which presently ensures no one is barred from accessing any physical University property (ie., access ramps, braille signs, etc.).

Note this isn't a dictate that all users experience your pages equally, only that all users can access them equally. For example, blind users surf the web using "readers" which speak the contents of a page, including the hyperlinks used for navigation. This does not mean you cannot embed pictures on pages, just that these pictures should also have text-equivalents embedded, such as "alt" tags on images or image maps.

色花堂 Accessibility Coordinators

For Students:

Kyle Mutz
Director, Student Accessibility Center

For Staff & Faculty:

Tammy Gardiner
Executive Director, Digital Accessibility

State of Texas Accessibility References

Helpful Accessibility Resources

The WAI is the W3C's official accessibility arm and has resources including . and a detailed for accessibility.
JAWS is a popular screen-reader used by the visually impaired; free trial versions are available for download.
Section 508 details the Federal government's accessibility guidelines.
Two-part, two-hour Webinar discussing the section 255/508 refresh.
IBM maintains a "Human Ability and Accessibility Center" with everything from news to developer tools to a screen reader.
The Macintosh OS has many accessibility features built into the operating system.