In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on May 16, we're launching a series of informative emails about website accessibility and best practices.
As a public university, it's our duty to make sure everyone can easily access and engage with our website content in compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. UC San Diego and the University of California are dedicated to enhancing accessibility.
Tools like Siteimprove help us pinpoint areas for improvement, and our campus CMS and eforms solutions give us a head start — they're already set up with accessibility in mind. When we use CMS V5 templates, our pages display readable fonts and colors, and our forms are navigable without a mouse.
While campus CMS developers are always working to enhance these features, website owners and content creators play an essential part, too. If you manually override text color or fonts, it may negatively impact website accessibility and, more importantly, may exclude some users from easily accessing your content.
Begin your accessibility awareness journey with two easy action items:
