Accessibility

Compliance with accessibility standards is important both for adhering to BU web standards and for ensuring your visitors have a good experience on your site. If that’s not enough to convince you accessibility is important, consider this: Google bumps up pages with well-structured, valid HTML and CSS in their rankings. When you put accessibility first, you naturally provide good, well-structured content – and that will naturally improve your search rankings.

Improve your content by familiarizing yourself with accessibility standards and following this guide on TechWeb, which provides ten easy things you can do now to improve your content.

Need help writing alt-text for your images? Follow this link for guidelines on writing effective alt-text.