{"id":2000003737,"date":"2022-07-27T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T15:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/oit\/?p=2000003737"},"modified":"2025-06-03T10:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:55:13","slug":"new-accessibility-checklists-available-for-social-media-web-and-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/oit\/2022\/07\/27\/new-accessibility-checklists-available-for-social-media-web-and-email\/","title":{"rendered":"New accessibility checklists available for social media, web, and email"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New checklists are available to help campus communicators and marketers review their social media posts, web pages, and emails for accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital accessibility extends beyond our university web pages. Federal law and university policies require Boise State to ensure all digital information and communications are accessible to everyone, regardless of ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-accessibility-checklists\">Accessibility checklists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-social-media-content-accessibility-checklist\">Social media content accessibility checklist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/social-media-content-accessibility-checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Social Media Content Accessibility Checklist<\/a> focuses on image and video accessibility, and includes links to examples of social media accounts that use best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-email-content-accessibility-checklist\">Email content accessibility checklist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>As the university begins using Salesforce Marketing Cloud to send campaign emails (and continues to use other services with HTML templates), it&#8217;s important to apply accessibility best practices when creating your email messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/email-accessibility-checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Email Content Accessibility Checklist<\/a> covers structure, color, text, images, links, and media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spend a lot of time talking about how we wish more people would read important emails; let&#8217;s also make sure everyone <em>can<\/em> read them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-web-content-accessibility-checklist\">Web content accessibility checklist<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/web-content-accessibility-checklist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Web Content Accessibility Checklist<\/a> distills much of the information available elsewhere on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webguide<\/a> site into a single page covering the basics of web accessibility requirements and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This checklist covers structure, images, media, tables and graphs, and document accessibility requirements and best practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-more-information\">More information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope these checklists are helpful, and encourage you to learn more why accessibility is a requirement by browsing through the numerous digital accessibility resources available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/accessibility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webguide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OIT also continues to offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/webguide\/support-training\/training\/\">web and document accessibility training sessions<\/a>, along with other learning opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact us through the Help Desk at (208) 426-4357 or helpdesk@boisestate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New checklists are available to help campus communicators and marketers review their social media posts,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":2000003739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2000003737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - 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