Web Accessibility

What Is Web Accessibility?

Accessibility (noun): The inclusive practice of ensuring people of all abilities are given equal access to information and functionality.

Maintaining accessible standards and best practices on webpages, documents, services, applications, etc., ensures equal access to UMB’s information and services, courses of instruction, departmental programs, and UMB-sponsored activities.

To provide a specific example, a visually impaired individual may rely on software that reads aloud the contents of a webpage. Images on the web must be properly tagged with alternative text that this software can read aloud.

UMB adheres to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 standard for web accessibility, a stable, referenceable, technical standard” that was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium to guide the creation of accessible websites and web content.

For more information about accessibility at UMB, or requesting an alternate format, please complete the Web Accessibility Feedback Form.

For web accessibility issues within a school at UMB, please refer to the contact information available here.

For UMB Employees: Maintaining Online Accessibility

Accessibility isn’t just your ethical responsibility, it’s a legal duty as well.

The Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 requires public sector institutions to make their information technology accessible to people with disabilities.