Standards & Guidelines
Here are some useful links to accessibility guidelines and legislations meant to help ensure accessibility for people of all abilities online as well as offline. You'll also find some useful Web 2.0 info. Each link will open in a new window so you don't have to leave this site.
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA):
- Learn about the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service Regulation
- Learn about the Accessible Information & Communications Standard, which includes website accessibility
- Learn about the AODA in full
American Accessibility Laws:
- Learn about Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act dealing with accessibility in information technology
- Learn about the ADA in full
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0:
- Learn about the World Wide Web Consortium's web accessibility standards
- Learn about the World Wide Web Consortium's web Accessibility Initiative
Accessibility Tips
Question: What's the best way to make sure your videos are enjoyable for everyone?Answer: Use captioning and verbal description in the video wherever possible, allowing both deaf users and blind users to access the video's content. If it's not possible to insert captioning and verbal description into the video, then create a separate page with a textual description of the audio and visual content. As well as deaf or blind users, this separate text page will also be helpful to users of text-only web browsers and users who don't have access to a media player.
