There’s no doubt: website accessibility is critically important. And, the struggle to consistently meet accessibility standards is real. This is especially true within a distributed publishing model, as is common in post-secondary institutions. Regardless of how much work and attention you pay to designing your site to be potentially accessible on the technical side of the equation, meeting basic standards for accessibility within site content is not actually that difficult to achieve for content contributors. By following a few basic principles, almost any content contributor is technically capable of doing their part to make your site accessible… if they know that they should. If they have been persuaded to consider it along the way. If they’re not too intimidated to try.
Kenzie Woodbridge
Senior Systems Analyst, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Kenzie works at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, as a Senior Systems Analyst, Web Developer, Knowledge Strategist, and Community Manager. Kenzie has a passion for communication, continuous iterative improvement, and for systemic solutions to systemic problems. Kenzie has previously spoken at #PSEWeb, BCNET, Write the Docs, the International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, the Association of Internet Research Conference, DevOpsDays events in various locations, Craft Conf, Accento, and STC InterChange, and completed a Master’s degree in Professional Communication by writing their thesis on prosocial community within Minecraft multiplayer servers.
Kenzie is awesome and you totally want to have them as your friend (offer of friendship void where local laws do not permit, not guaranteed in all circumstances, skill-testing questions required).