The guidelines below are summarized from standards listed in the UM Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Policy and Resolution Agreement.

Documents

• Straight text* documents created at UM should be text-based and have:
  • sequential heading styles,
  • lists that are styles and
  • descriptive links. 
• Straight text* documents that are acquired from other sources should be, at a minimum:
  • text-based with
  • heading styles provided by the UMconvertdocc document conversion processes. 
• Recommendation for images:  Documents, even acquired ones, that are used frequently or publically-facing websites should be evaluated and alternative text descriptions provided for images with significance or meaning.  This is at the professor's discretion for course materials.

*Straight text excludes STEM topics and documents with extensive images

Other items

• Forms
• Instructional environments and contents should be accessible and be used in the best accessible manner.
• Media (Request captioning)
  • Videos should be open-captioned.
  • Audio recordings should be transcribed. 
• Purchasing / Procurement
• Programming & Developers
• Software, Hardware and electronic and information technology (Request review)
  • Software/hardware should be accessible and be used in the best accessible manner.
  • Only purchase accessible electronic and information technology
• Websites:
  • UM uses W3C AA standards to check web accessibility. 
  • If websites are used as course content, you can have them checked for accessibility by submitting a Web page accessibility review request.

Prioritizing

Priority is assigned to:

• items used for academic purposes or public-facing websites
• items that will be used by many
• items that will be used more than once