Accessibility
Resources
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
International standard, including WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, and WCAG 2.2. WCAG documents explain how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities.
PDF/Document - Decision Tree
Choose the right format - PDF, web page, or another document type—based on your goal.
Videos and Tutorials
Office of Civil Rights Videos on Digital Accessibility
Explore the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights video series on digital accessibility in education. Learn how people with disabilities use technology, understand key federal requirements, and discover practical steps to identify and remove barriers—so you can make your website or platform more accessible to everyone.
PDF Accessibility
PDF documents on North Carolina websites must be accessible so that a person with a disability can use the document. Internal documents for state employees, should also be accessible. Learn more from the N.C. Department of Information Technology.
Test and Remediate PDFs for Accessibility
The Accessible Electronic Document Community of Practice (AED CoP) created this series of videos to explain and demonstrate the minimum steps needed to ensure your PDF is Section 508 conformant.
Testing Tools
WAVE browser extension
The WAVE browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge let you evaluate accessibility issues on individual web pages directly in your browser.
DubBot site crawler (login)
DubBot conducts automated accessibility checks on web pages, and documents helping content owners identify and address accessibility issues.
Improve Keyboard Navigation on MacOS
If the Tab key doesn’t move focus to links in Firefox or Safari on macOS, it’s because macOS limits keyboard tabbing to only “text boxes and lists” by default.