What Is Web Accessibility?
Accessibility (noun): The inclusive practice of ensuring people of all abilities are given equal access to information and functionality.
Maintaining accessible standards and best practices on webpages, documents, services, applications, etc., ensures equal access to UMB’s information and services, courses of instruction, departmental programs, and UMB-sponsored activities.
To provide a specific example, a visually impaired individual may rely on software that reads aloud the contents of a webpage. Images on the web must be properly tagged with alternative text that this software can read aloud.