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Texas A&M University offers a range of support services to help faculty and staff meet digital accessibility expectations across teaching, web development, and online content. Whether you have compliance questions, need help making course materials accessible, are looking for training opportunities, or require guidance on accessible web design, the resources below are available to support your work.
General Needs
- Questions about compliance
Secure guidance on laws, standards, and best practices in higher education. - Assistance with course content
Request help with course design, digital resources, and learning activities. - Instructor help and consultations
Find practical training and tools to create accessible learning experiences. - Guidance for web development
Access support for building and maintaining accessible websites and apps.
Instructor Training Opportunities
Texas A&M offers courses, workshops, open labs, and self‑paced resources focused on document accessibility, multimedia accessibility, Canvas content, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Instructors are encouraged to continue improving course access ahead of and through the April 24 compliance deadline.
Reporting Access Issues/Requesting Accommodations
If you encounter an accessibility barrier or need an accommodation due to a disability, you are encouraged to report the issue or submit a request. The options below explain how to request accommodations or notify the University of access barriers so they can be addressed promptly and effectively.
- Report a barrier to access (creates a ticket)
Inform us about issues preventing access to our content, programs, activities, or services. - Request an accommodation (creates a ticket)Submit a request for disability‑related support or alternative formats.
Did you know?
- In the United States, about 55 million people have a disability (src: 2010 U.S. Census).
- About 1 in 5 Americans have some kind of disability (src: 2010 U.S. Census).
- The percentage of people affected by disabilities is growing as our population ages.
- Two popular, free screen readers are VoiceOver (Mac OS and iOS) and NVDA (Win).
- Good accessibility practices can improve the search ranking of your website.
- Form fields without labels can cause problems for some assistive technology users.
- Low color contrast makes content difficult to see, especially for users with low vision.
- Documents linked on a website need to be accessible too (e.g., PDF and Word files).
- Audio content, like podcasts, need transcripts for deaf or hard of hearing users.
- Online videos should be captioned for deaf or hard of hearing users.
- Using HTML tags correctly is very important for accessibility.
- Descriptive link text helps make a website more accessible. Avoid using "Click here" or "Read more."
- A "screen reader" is an application that reads content aloud to a user.
- There is no "alt tag" in HTML. "Alt" is an attribute used with the img tag.
- HTML uses the alt attribute to provide a text description of an image.
- Alt text should describe an image, if the purpose of the image is to convey information.
- If an image is a link, the alt text for the image should explain where the link goes.
- If an image is only being used for decoration, the alt text should be null (i.e., alt="").
- If a table has headers, using header tags (<th>) will make the table more accessible.
- An accessible website is one that can be navigated and understood by everyone.