About Accessibility
Accessibility allows everyone, regardless of disability to:
Acquire the Same Information
Engage in the Same Interactions
Enjoy the Same Services
Defining Accessibility
Accessibility is the quality of a device, service, or environment to be utilized by a wide range of people. By designing, implementing, and maintaining compliant resources, we make physical and digital accessibility a reality at Augusta University.
Defining Physical accessibility
Physical spaces are required to be accessible to everyone.
Some common examples include:
- Wheelchair accessible parking
- Elevators
- Signage indicating accessible facilities
- Braille labels
- Hearing Aids
- Corridor spacing
- Obstacle-free entrances
Defining Web accessibility
Digital Spaces also need to be able to be accessed by everyone, regardless of disability.
Some general guidelines to help us maintain web accessibility include:
- Using headings to create a navigable hierarchal structure, such as in an outline
- Adding a unique and informative description to every image
- Captioning all videos and transcripts
- Maintaining color-contrast ratio standards
Augusta University strives for all of its facilities, websites, and campuses to be usable to all people regardless of disability or impairment.
Why is accessibility important?
<pclass="lead">Accessibility benefits everyone. It affords persons with disabilities access to the same information, opportunities, and services as persons without a disability. Everyone has the right to have access to the same or equivalent information.
Compliance
According to the US Department of Education:
To be accessible, a person with a disability is able to obtain information as fully, equally and independently as a person without a disability.
We strive to maintain AA Web Accessibility Compliance.
Failure to comply with accessibility standards is discriminatory and illegal as outlined in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Our Goal
Making your content accessible is a key part of our mission at Augusta University. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, including people with differing abilities, can access our digital content in an equally effective and integrated manner, with a comparable ease of use.
We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all to engage in our educational programs. As part of this commitment, we require all of our web publishers to complete an annual accessibility compliance attestation. Further learning materials and specialized training sessions are available to all publishers via the SiteImprove Frontiers platform.
Resources
Help us help you
If you believe anything at Augusta University to be accessibility non-compliant, please bring it to our attention.