Digital Accessibility Training and Resources
Technology such as websites, social media, and electronic documents are often the first point of contact that prospective students, employees, and community members have with UCI. Internally, UCI students and employees rely on digital technologies to study and work. Accessibility of these technologies is vital and required by law. You can help increase accessibility using the resources below.
Creating Websites and Marketing Material
Learn about different aspects of making a website accessible through Siteimprove trainings available to UCI employees. Siteimprove offers a number of learning paths, depending on what role you have in web and document development. A few of the learning paths are listed below or explore the full list of Siteimprove web accessibility trainings on the Siteimprove website. Some courses may require a prerequisite course from the site. Be sure to log in to Siteimprove from the OIT website first to gain ready access to these online trainings.
MARKETING & SOCIAL MEDIA
Accessibility for Marketers
Marketers work through web pages, emails, documents, media, and surveys—all of which should be accessible to the largest audience possible.
DESIGN
Accessibility for Designers
While a web developer makes a designer’s vision a reality, there are a number of guidelines related to accessibility that a designer can directly address—including creating style, determining placement, and working with color.
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Accessibility for Web Developers
Examine all the ways web developers affect accessibility with images, tables, multimedia, navigation, structure, coding, CSS, color, and forms.
WEB CONTENT
Accessibility for Content Contributors
Learn the roles and responsibilities of writers, editors, page owners, and other content contributors as they relate to web accessibility. Content contributors learn how content choices such as color, links, images, tables, and multimedia can make web content clear, accessible, and engaging.
Accessibility for Content Contributors (overview)
Accessibility for Content Contributors (learning path)
Accessibility Training
These trainings provide both a general overview and in-depth tutorials about digital accessibility.
General
- UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Accessibility Overview
- UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation Teaching Accessibility Cheat Sheet
- UCI Accessibility Tipsheets
- UCI AccessibliTrees Badging Training (requires UCI login)
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tutorials and Resources
SiteImprove
- Log in to Siteimprove (directly)
- How to Access Siteimprove Learning Hub (directions for new users or refresher)
- Siteimprove Accessibility Courses (view courses offered; Log in from OIT site to access via UCI account)
DOCUMENTS
Accessibility for Microsoft Office and Other Documents
Examine how documents play a role in accessibility. These accessibility guidelines apply to Microsoft Office, Google Docs, Pages and PDFs. Each program is slightly different in how you apply accessibility, but the principles are the same.
Accessibility for Documents
(Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages)
Accessibility for Microsoft Office
(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
Accessibility for PDFs
TEACHING / INSTRUCTION
Accessibility for Educators
Learn the fundamentals of accessible content creation for learning in the classroom, including practical strategies, best practices, and tools to design inclusive and accessible online courses. This learning path focuses on the role of instructional designers and key strategies for creating inclusive and accessible experiences that benefit all learners.
Accessibility for the Classroom
Accessibility for the Virtual Classroom
ACCESSIBLE PURCHASING
Accessibility for Purchasing
This course examines how purchasing information and communication technology plays a role in accessibility from the time request for proposals are sent out through the contract negotiation phase.
You’ll also learn how timelines need to include sufficient time to do automated and manual accessibility testing before contracts are signed.
IT Accessibility
The UC Information Technology Accessibility Policy was approved and became effective August 27, 2013. The policy promotes and supports an accessible IT environment within the University of California system. By supporting IT accessibility, the University of California helps ensure that as broad a population as possible is able to access, benefit from, and contribute to its electronic programs and services.