All images on your LibGuides need to contain alternative text (alt text) to ensure that users with screen readers can engage with them. Exception: If the alt text duplicates information you are already providing via text on the page, the image is "decorative" and you can use the null tag, which is two quotation marks with no space between them (alt text = "")
Videos embedded in LibGuides need the following attributes to be accessible:
If you embed a video, each FRAME and IFRAME element needs a title attribute. Without it, screen readers read out the file name, which can be meaningless. This is not always provided in the embed code, so please add a descriptive title.
Example:
This box is copied verbatim with permission from the LibGuides Accessibility Best Practices Guide created by Samantha McClellan at Sacramento State University.
This will allow you to embed content from YouTube or other sources that you can reuse across multiple guides and update more easily using the Asset bank.
Colour combinations between text and background are important elements in the accessibility of your LibGuide. Colour is particularly important when thinking of users with low vision or visual, cognitive, learning, or neurological disabilities.
Please use Headings rather than simply bolding or enlarging your text! Heading are important when organizing your content on a page. They improve readability, are helpful for screen readers and improve search engine optimization. In LibGuides, headings are already marked in the html code. The page name and titles are the H1 headings. H2 headings correspond with box names. H3-6 headings are what you are able to assign in the LibGuide rich text editor.
Followed by some normal text
Followed by some normal text
Followed by some normal text
Followed by some normal text
Links or other items that you add to your LibGuides should include brief descriptions. This helps users understand what they are clicking on and why they may want to click on it. Describing the items you are recommending keeps your guide from becoming decontextualized lists of resources that isolate the research tools from the research process (Hicks, 2015).
This page was closely adapted with permission from Iris Bierlein and Lauren Kohoe's NYU LibGuides Accessibility guide. The Video & title frames box is copied with permission from Samantha McClellan's LibGuides Accessibility: Best Practices guide at Sacramento State University.