网站的可访问性
杰克逊的大学 understands that cultivating a broadly diverse community is crucial to our educational mission and to our foundational commitment to leadership and service. 杰克逊的大学 is fully committed to ensuring our website is accurate and accessible to everyone including those with disabilities. We are currently working to increase accessibility and usability of our website to meet or exceed the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1991 and 网页内容易读性指引 (WCAG) 2.0.
To help make the 杰克逊的大学 website a positive place for everyone, we’ve been using the 网页内容易读性指引 (WCAG) 2.0. These guidelines explain how to make web content more accessible for people with disabilities, 对每个人都很友好. The guidelines have three levels of accessibility (A, AA and AAA). We’ve chosen Level AA as the target for the 杰克逊的大学 website.
无障碍指引及测试
The college uses SiteImprove, a paid service, to ensure new pages on the eix1.vencorllc.com website comply with best practices and accessibility guidelines as defined by the 网页内容易读性指引 (WCAG) 2.0 (down to Level AA) and Section 508 of the U.S. 康复法案(2017年).
SiteImprove offers regularly scheduled, automated checks as well as on-demand checks against WCAG 2.0 A级和AA级标准.
杰克逊的大学 also uses a number of additional accessibility tools and checkers:
- WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool offered by WebAim. A free WAVE browser extension is available for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.
- Siteimprove谷歌Chrome扩展
- 谷歌Chrome Web开发工具栏
- Google Chrome Accessibility Developer Tools
- 手动审查HTML代码
- NVDA屏幕阅读器
可访问性培训 & 出版工作流程
As part of our training program for new website developers, College marketing staff cover common accessibility checkpoints, including alternate text descriptions for images, 正确标记附件, 对超链接使用描述性文本, 视频字幕, 正确组织页面标题, among other accessibility best practices.
Every webpage edit goes through a content management system publishing workflow review to catch issues before they are published to the live website. Issues that are found are remediated and follow-up training is provided to web content authors.
报告无障碍问题
杰克逊的大学 strives to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability as comprehensively as possible on this website.
We are continually seeking solutions that will bring all areas of the site up to the same level of overall web accessibility. In the meantime should you experience any difficulty in accessing the 杰克逊的大学 website, please don’t hesitate to contact us by filling out the form below.