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MCC Daily Tribune

Making Our Website More Accessible

A website is accessible when all who visit can do what they need to online, regardless of physical or developmental abilities or impairments.

When the US Office of Civil Rights alerted MCC to accessibility problems with our website, the College signed an agreement to remedy them. Like MCC, many other schools are in the middle of accessibility remediation projects. This Inside Higher Ed article sums up the challenges we all face.

MCC's web services team has fixed many of the problems found in an accessibility audit and is pushing them live this semester. You may notice formatting changes to the website. Next, the team will make PDFs and other documents accessible. We must also ensure that future web page updates follow accessibility rules. Web liaisons will help in this effort.

Would you like to learn more about web accessibility?

The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessibility Fundamentals website introduces web accessibility concepts. It includes several short videos that illustrate aspects of web accessibility. Select a video that interests you or watch them all together in this 7.5 minute Web Accessibility Perspectives compilation on YouTube.

You may also want to take a one-hour online course called Web Accessibility Fundamentals on Siteimprove Academy. This course shows why web accessibility is important and how accessible websites help everyone.

To take the course, go to Siteimprove Academy, then:

  1. Select Add Course Track to register for the Web Fundamentals: Accessibility, Analytics, and SEO track
  2. In Course Checkout, fill in the short registration form, agree to the Terms, and select Get Access. You'll receive two emails from Siteimprove Academy.
  3. Open the email with the subject "Siteimprove Academy login information" and select the hyperlink
  4. Create a password, agree to Terms, and select Continue
  5. Click through the Welcome message
  6. Select the Web Fundamentals... box
  7. Select Start This Learning Path to take the course Web Accessibility Fundamentals

Craig Watkins
Marketing and Community Relations
03/08/2019