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Follow 5 steps to create elegant and accessible design
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
disability compliance for higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-8001
pISSN - 1086-1335
DOI - 10.1002/dhe.30259
Subject(s) - session (web analytics) , simple (philosophy) , world wide web , sanctions , focus (optics) , computer science , multimedia , engineering , political science , law , philosophy , physics , optics , epistemology
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Keeping your campus technologically connected is not as simple as placing handouts online. Avoid costly fines and sanctions by creating accessible content for your university, but satisfy the needs of your students and your own aesthetic interests by making that accessible design elegant. At a session at the EDUCAUSE annual conference, Andrew Browning, web team manager for the University of California, Los Angeles, shared tips from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines on how to create elegant, accessible web design. “Elegant design allows us to focus on higher‐level problem solving,” Browning said. “It doesn't just save us a few precious minutes one time; it saves us a few precious minutes time and time again.”