Benchmarks for Accessibility
In order to ensure the accessibility of our information materials and technologies, the University will measure the functionality of individual resources against a set of nationally-recognized accessible technology standards.
WCAG 2.0 Level AA and WAI-ARIA 1.0
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international standards organization for the World Wide Web. The WAI has published multiple guidelines for accessibility which address a variety of web-related technologies, including the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA) technical specification. ETSU will use these guidelines to evaluate and improve web content and applications. For details about these guidelines, follow the Buttons below.
WAI-ARIA Technical Specification
EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines
The International Digital Publishing Forum is a trade and standards organization for the digital publishing industry. They develop and maintain the EPUB content publication standard that is used by publishers industry-wide for the digital distribution of books, journals, newspapers, magazines, etc. They have developed a set of accessibility guidelines for content authors using the EPUB format. ETSU will use these guidelines when evaluating or creating content distributed in the EPUB format. For details about these guidelines, follow the Button below.