Introduction. The University of Oklahoma is committed to ensuring that web sites and web-based software are accessible to as broad of an audience as possible. This commitment is reflected in The University of Oklahoma’s Digital Accessibility Policy. The University abides by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) …
People who have both visual impairment and hearing impairment need access to the audio and visual aspects of material. Recommendations: For live audio, such as OU Live, WCAG recommends the provision of live text alternatives (e.g. through stenography) but this will not often be practical. Further guidance is available on the SeGA website.
Mapping of OU Accessibility Guidelines to WCAG 2.0 The OU Web Accessibility Guidelines are based on WCAG 2.0 from which each point has been selected and rephrased for clarity and briefly explained. These OU Guidelines categorise each point as either Must, or Should, and in a few cases it omits WCAG success criteria where they deemed to, Guideline 1.1. Text Alternatives: Provide text alternatives for any non-text content . Success Criteria 1.1.1 Non- text Content (Level A) All non-text content that is presented to the user has a text alternative that serves the equivalent purpose, except for the situations listed below.. Controls, Input: If non-text content is a control or accepts user input, then it has a name that describes …
