Digital Accessibility is a massive topic, so massive that it can be hard to remember everything that we should or should not do when creating content.  Siteimprove helps us catch accessibility barriers quickly, however we cannot use Siteimprove on social media, for documents, or on a video hosting service like YouTube or Vimeo!  The content on those platforms and in various formats are equally important and we should still ensure that we are providing equal access for people with disabilities.  That is why we have created the following cheat sheet for Digital Accessibility to help you catch some of the things that could easily be missed or forgotten about when your digital materials are not being scanned by Siteimprove.

Checkout the list or download the flyer below to help you on your accessibility journey! 

Do’s

• Use headers in the correct order.
• Capitalize text without using CSS.
• Use italics for short passages of text.
• Use color to bring content to life.
• Have alt text on all images.
• Add a title to your links.
• Make your links unique and descriptive.
• Caption your videos.
• Provide a transcript for audio or video content that is located near your multimedia.
• Use simple sentence structure when possible.
• Make sure text in other languages is properly marked when possible.

Don’ts

• Have empty headers on a page.
• Use capitalization for large amounts of text.
• Use italics for long passages of text.
• Use color alone to bring attention to something important.
• Say image of, graphic of, etc. in your alt text
• Use Read More, Learn More, etc.
• Exclude captions from your video content.
• Exclude a transcript for multimedia.
• Use words that are complex or have long complex sentences.
• Exclude language tags from digital content when they can be marked.