{"id":4324,"date":"2026-01-28T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/?p=4324"},"modified":"2026-01-28T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:31:11","slug":"lab-3-web-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/2026\/01\/28\/lab-3-web-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 3: Web Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Web accessibility guidelines help us to ensure that our content meets at least a minimum threshold for accessibility. While it\u2019s a long way off from&nbsp;<strong>universal design<\/strong>&nbsp;(designing to make sure our projects are maximally accessible for a maximal audience), it\u2019s an important first step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a variety of tools for evaluating accessibility. Tools like Funkify allow you to simulate various disabilities to get a sense of how design impacts usability. That\u2019s useful to a point, although it\u2019s always better (and necessary!) to talk to actual people whose lived experiences are a much better guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, we\u2019ll use WAVE, the web accessibility evaluation tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Choose a page on the SIUE website to evaluate, and run it through the checker at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/\">https:\/\/wave.webaim.org\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In a blog post (with the tag \u201cAccessibility\u201d), answer the following questions. Bullet points are fine!\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What accessibility issues crop up for the page you chose?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Who is most likely to need the content on the page?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How might the accessibility issues impede people\u2019s access to the content? Who might be most impacted?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Name one or two ways that the accessibility of the site could be improved \u2013 the smaller and easier, the better!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web accessibility guidelines help us to ensure that our content meets at least a minimum threshold for accessibility. While it\u2019s a long way off from&nbsp;universal design&nbsp;(designing to make sure our projects are maximally accessible for a maximal audience), it\u2019s an important first step. There are a variety of tools for evaluating accessibility. Tools like Funkify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-labs","tag-accessibility","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iris.siue.edu\/hum230sp26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}