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Stanford Sites User Guide

Accessibility Support

Your site is designed to be accessible and to support accessibility best practices. As you add content and grow your website over time, it is your responsibility to make sure your content continues to be accessible. 

Office of Digital Accessibility (ODA) uses Siteimprove to scan and monitor your website for accessibility and other site health indicators. To learn more about using Siteimprove, go to Website Scanning & Monitoring. If you need access to see a Siteimprove report for a site or any other requests, go to the ODA Siteimprove Request form.

If you need help with making your content accessible, here are some resources:

  • Sign up for office hours with ODA:  provides assistance through their Tuesday 11-12 pm office hours. Sign up for accessibility office hours.
  • Attend drop-in office hours with ODA: Join the conversation every Thursday 11-12 with ODA on Zoom at https://goto.stanford.edu/si-office-hour
  • Use Slack: ODA also provides assistance through Slack. Ask Siteimprove specific questions at #cop-siteimprove and ask other accessibility questions at #cop-accessibility.
  • Ask SWS: If you have specific questions about Stanford Sites, you can submit a help request to Stanford Web Services (SWS).
  • Partner with SWS: Need more help keeping your website accessible? Through the Content Care service, SWS will help you identify and address accessibility issues.

Partner with Stanford Web Services to maintain an accessible web presence

Services

Need help with the accessibility of your site? Partner with Stanford Web Services to:

  • Identify and assess issues affecting your content using Siteimprove scanning and manual testing
  • Identify priorities and remediation strategies alongside our partners in the Office of Digital Accessibility
  • Assist on a one-time or ongoing basis
  • Mentor content writers and editors on best practices
  • Track and report the impact of testing and remediation efforts over time
Learn more about Content CARE

Learn to make your content accessible

Well-structured and informative content that follows basic formatting guidelines ensures that your website is well-organized, clearly understandable to readers, and accessible to people with disabilities.

Here are some resources for helping you create accessible content:

Write for the Web

When it comes to writing for the web, creating content that is easy to scan is your priority.

Create Accessible Headings

Learn how to use headings to make content easy scanning, improve content structure, SEO, and accessibility.

Checking Page Accessibility

Stanford Sites provides the Editora11y Accessibility Checker for checking accessibility after saving the page.

Create Links

Learn about the options for adding links to any text area, including email links.

Use Video

Learn to add videos from YouTube and Vimeo and tips for making videos accessible.

Check content accessibility

Once you've added content to your site, here are resources for checking and remediating the accessibility of your content:

Accessibility Testing

As a content creator and editor, you are responsible for making sure the content you provide meets accessibility standards.

Fix issues from Siteimprove

Siteimprove scans for and reports a variety of accessibility issues on your website. Here are tips for addressing some of these issues for your site on Stanford Sites.

Related resources

The Stanford Office of Digital Accessibility provides guidance and resources for Stanford web designers, developers, and content creators who need to produce materials that are accessible to the broadest audience possible. Here are some resources from ODA: 

Here's a list of videos from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights