{"id":869,"date":"2025-02-14T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/?p=869"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:46:08","slug":"making-your-site-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/art-and-humanities-portfolio\/making-your-site-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Your Site Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Web accessibility\u202fis the\u202finclusive practice\u202fof ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to,\u202fwebsites\u202fon the\u202fWorld Wide Web\u202fby people with physical\u202fdisabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_accessibility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>).\u202f&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you build out your site, keep \u200baccessibility\u200b in mind \u2013 think about:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ensuring a <strong>logical document\/page structure<\/strong> (nesting headings correctly H2 &gt; H3 &gt; H4&#8230;)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>breaking up<\/strong> walls of text&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>use of <strong>color<\/strong>: appropriate color contrasts, avoiding colors that are too bright, being careful when using colors to convey meaning&#8230;)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>legible <strong>typeface and font size<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>providing <strong>text alternatives<\/strong> to multimedia content (<a href=\"https:\/\/moz.com\/learn\/seo\/alt-text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alt text<\/a> for images, captions or transcripts for videos)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>writing <strong>links that make sense out of context<\/strong> (avoid \u201cclick here\u201d)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>using an accessibility checker, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation tool<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/editoria11y-accessibility-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Editoria11y Accessibility checker<\/a> plugin&nbsp;\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Editoria11y Accessibility checker plugin is already installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Web accessibility\u202fis the\u202finclusive practice\u202fof ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to,\u202fwebsites\u202fon the\u202fWorld Wide Web\u202fby people with physical\u202fdisabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed.&#8221; (Wikipedia).\u202f&nbsp; As you build out your site, keep \u200baccessibility\u200b in mind \u2013 think about:&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-humanities-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.grinnell.edu\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}