Archives: accessibility

Monday, April 18, 2022

Making Accessibility Accessible

Great news everyone! In recent history, Web Services has been delivering training around accessibility for the web in our Writing for Web Accessibility workshops. Now we have moved a set of the materials upon which we base our workshops into our website. So now you can learn even more about how to present your web... More

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Alt Text 1: Improving your Image with Web Services

Let's discuss the subtext Before you get too excited this story isn’t about how to run a great PR campaign or mend your reputation after those photos get leaked to the press. When we say improving your image, we mean we are going to look at how to improve the accessibility of images on... More

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Aye Aye, Caption: Generating Transcripts and Closed Captioning from YouTube Videos

If you’re up-to-date with web accessibility standards, then you are likely aware of the importance of captioning and transcripts for video content. If you're not, then consider reading this short page on web accessibility for video content. In any case, the next step to attaining web accessibility is to understand how to actually implement... More

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

HighEdWeb Conference Addresses Accessibility, Inclusivity and Neurodiversity

Career development is crucial, especially in the IT world. The Web Services team recently attended the 2021 HighEdWeb online conference to sharpen our skills, skills that are sure to help us make Carleton University's web experience better for users of all types. Web Design and People Who Are Neurodivergent A pivotal session many attended... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 4. Missing or Uninformative Page Title

What it means A page has no page name attributed to it. It is literally blank. Why it matters A page title is important for several reasons. It describes the content or purpose of a page (E.g., Contact ITS, List of Faculty and Staff, Apply to Carleton University.) This is not only useful in... More

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 3. Empty Links

Empty links What it means A link contains no text. It's emptier than a movie theatre during lockdown. It is invisible to people viewing the page via eyesight (with or without corrective lenses) so it matters little to them - except that the link might be important and it is not going to receive... More

Tuesday, May 18, 2021

Web Accessibility Overview

Here at Carleton, accessibility is a priority, both on campus and on the web. As Thursday, 21st May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we thought we would bring you a brief overview of web accessibility as well as resources that will guide you through your web accessibility journey. Accessibility Overview The web offers unprecedented... More

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 2. Empty Heading

Empty heading What It Means A heading that contains no content. How do these empty headings occur? It is the easiest thing to accidentally create one: you insert a heading in one of your pages. However, then you decide to delete it, but you do so by only deleting the text. The HTML tag... More

Monday, March 8, 2021

Top Five Accessibility Issues: 1. Linked image missing alternative text

Over the next few weeks, we are going to take a look at the top five accessibility issues discovered on Carleton websites by our scanning tools. We will also look at the top five issues we discovered by doing a visual check on sites. The first item is: Linked image missing alternative text What... More

Monday, March 8, 2021

What are the top five accessibility issues?

The new year has brought all kinds of excitement about accessibility. January marked the latest standard in AODA coming into operation. Because of this, and because the web community at Carleton is committed to making their websites as accessible as possible, many people are asking Web Services to run accessibility assessments of their websites.... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Everything is going to be AA-Okay

Everything is going to be okay. While we can't say this with any great accuracy over the state of the world, we can address some fears a bit closer to home. As the passenger liner of 2020 plows into the iceberg of 2021, we have all been looking forward to the New Year. However,... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

AODA and Digital Accessibility

Our public websites and its contents must meet WCAG 2.0 AA by January 2021 as outlined in the Accessibility Standard for Information and Communications. WCAG 2.0 is an internationally accepted standard for web accessibility developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It defines three levels of compliance - A, AA and AAA. Level A equates... More

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