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Web accessibility word cloud<\/a> \/ itjil<\/a> \/ CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n Designing for accessibility means that you end up with a site that is clear and helpful to everyone.<\/p>\n More information on Universal Design in higher education<\/a><\/p>\n Web Style Guide: Visual Design<\/a><\/p>\n Designing Accessible Content: Typography, Font Styling, and Structure<\/a> Include short descriptive alt text for all images! This is the most common accessibility error. Use the description field for complex pictures or charts.<\/p>\n WebAIM has a guide for appropriate uses of alternative text<\/a>.<\/p>\n To learn more: YouTube captioning<\/a><\/p>\n YouTube keyboard accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n Panopto Accessibility Features<\/a><\/p>\n Editing Automatic Captions in Panopto<\/a><\/p>\n HTML Accessibility<\/a><\/p>\n Accessible Links<\/a><\/p>\n What is an Accessible PDF<\/a> Web accessibility word cloud \/ itjil \/ CC BY 2.0 Why Designing for accessibility means that you end up with a site that is clear and helpful to everyone. More…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[12,25,42,50,87,89,91],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-wordpress","tag-accessibility","tag-color","tag-font","tag-images","tag-universal-design","tag-web-design","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4349,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websites.emerson.edu\/itg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why<\/h2>\n
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