The Apollo 2 website theme was created with website accessibility in mind. As a content editor, your focus on website accessibility is mostly within the content of the pages and posts on your website. You should be able to use any block in as part of the Apollo 2 theme and expect them to adhere to the technical requirements for website accessibility (WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 level A/AA)
Websites must meet new accessibility standards by April 26, 2027
All websites and applications must meet WCAG 2.1 or 2.2 level A/AA standards. This federal legal update takes place on April 26. You must review and update digital content on your website by this date. This includes attached files, like documents and PDFs.
Due to the federal law, it’s important to make sure your website content is done with accessibility in mind and old problems are remediated to remove issues which leave your website open to legal action from lingering violations of the ADA.
As part of your responsibilities in updating your website content, you are responsible for verifying that any files uploaded into your Media Library such as PDFs, Spreadsheets, Word documents, and PowerPoint slide decks are also in compliance with accessibility requirements. Noncompliance can result in expensive legal judgements against the university, college and/or department.
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Website Accessibility information page. The benefits of an accessible website include good Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which helps ensure your website’s pages and content appear on search engine results pages as close to the top as possible. SEO is focused on making your content easy for search engine’s to use and understand so that newly created or updated content helps to edge out a competitor’s in the search rankings. As an example, if your page has updated information on a new employment opportunity, you would want your updated page to appear before other sources of this information such as unrelated websites with no connection to your department, the university, or the healthcare industry.
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