Creating Accessible Web Pages

Dear Faculty, Staff and Student Web Developers,

We would like to share some important information with you about designing and evaluating your web pages for disabled accessibility. Accessibility means that blind, low vision, hearing impaired, learning and physically disabled persons have access to your web pages. Consider it "electronic curb cutting". It costs more to retrofit a sidewalk with wheel chair accessible curbs than to include the curb cut in the original design plan. Many of the barriers to accessing web pages are easy to correct. The bottom line is, designing accessible web pages involves nothing more than creating a web document which can be accessed with assistive technologies.