Building and maintaining an accessible website is an incredibly important thing. Not only is it essential to ensure that all users can fully access your content, but as we've seen lately, adherence to accessibility standards is critical in higher education.
Join experts from Siteimprove, Palantir, and Acquia as we use a real case study from North Dakota Sate University, a 15,000-student public-research university, to illustrate the transformative power of accessibility to optimize your site for all users.
By attending this webinar, you'll learn:
- How to optimize your site for different groups from some of the web’s leading experts
- Real examples of accessibility best practices
- How implementing best practices will affect the typical user, the disabled user, and even your SEO.
Through the Eyes of All Users - How to Achieve Website Accessibility for Everyone
1. Through The Eyes of All Users
How To Achieve Website
Accessibility for Everyone
2. Strategic Alliance Manager,
Siteimprove
Kevin Roddy
Sales Manager,
Palantir.net
Nelson Harris
Sr. Product Marketing Director,
Acquia
David Aponovich
Associate VP of University
Relations, NDSU
Laura McDaniel
4. 4
● Founded in 2003
● 7000+ customers
worldwide
● Siteimprove
Intelligence Platform:
Content &
Accessibility,
Analytics, SEO, GDPR
● 1000+ sites on Drupal
Siteimprove offers the world's most
comprehensive Digital Presence Optimization
(DPO) software. Create higher quality content,
drive better traffic, measure digital
performance, and work towards regulatory
compliance. - all from one place.
5. 5
● Founded in 1996
● Drupal since 2006
● 34 employees
● Strategy, UX, design,
development and
support
Palantir has a proven track record of helping
organizations transform their websites into
modern platforms that deliver results.
Palantir’s mission is to strengthen humanity by
helping others discover, create, and share
knowledge.
9. The concept of accessible web design
and development ensures easy
access online—be it unassisted or
through assistive technologies—for
people of all abilities.
What is Web Accessibility?
11. The Importance of Web Accessibility
● Approximately 1 in 4 people live with a disability in the United
States, according to the CDC
● Accessible design is making something that everyone can
use. We should all build websites with everyone in mind
● It’s not just the right thing to do, it’s beneficial for your
business and creates a better user experience for your visitors