Digital Accessibility Guidelines

State, Federal, and WCAG Standards

Overview

Creating accessible, digital content is not just right thing to do, it's legally required and governed in a variety of ways:

Internationally with the Web Accessibility Initiative's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) (the most basic guidelines for creating accessible content)
Federally with Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508
By Texas with Texas DIR and applicable state laws
University of Texas, through policies designed for compliance with the governing bodies, above.

Digital Accessibility at UTMB

Web Standards and Requirements

UTMB digital content strives to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 and Section 508 Requirements.

Accessibility (A11Y) Education

UTMB's digital accessibility site contains training, toolkits, resources and tools to guide us in creating accessible content. It's important to remember that just like digital security, as applications and technology change; so will the requirements in creating accessible content. Digital accessibility is an on-going commitment and effort to create content with as few barriers as possible for our users.