Digital Accessibility How-To Articles

Looking for tips and instructions for digital accessibility? This article links to help articles and training resources related to digital accessibility. Some articles and videos are specific to Mines, and other resources come from accessibility training sites such as WebAIM.

General Tips

Use built-in accessibility checkers

• Accessibility checkers training article and video

Use color in an accessible way

• How to select accessible colors for web pages
• Don't use color alone to convey meaning (WebAIM article)
• Color usage training article and video

Provide alternative text for images

• Don't use images of text
• Alternative text training article and video

Insert link text instead of URLs

• How to create accessible link text (WebAIM article)
• Link text training article and video

Use structured tables for data

• Avoid using tables for layout (WebAIM article)
• Create accessible tables for data (WebAIM article)

Prefer commonly available fonts

• Use common sans serif fonts such as Aptos, Calibri, or Arial at 10-12 pt size

Structure pages with headings and lists

• Use headings for document structure (WebAIM article)
• Structure lists as lists (WebAIM article)

Videos and Captions

• Create automatically generated captions for video resources
• Video captions training article and video