Inclusive design and accessibility for Career Center {WBR}

Madgex | Inclusive Design and Accessibility for Job Boards

How do we maintain inclusive services?

It’s crucial that you don’t risk your website falling below minimum accessibility standards. Here are a few basic principles that will help you maintain inclusive services… 1. A general in-house understanding and awareness of accessibility and the value it holds is a good starting point in maintaining accessibility. Training for staff so they aware of the basics, new developments and how to become advocates, is a good place to start.

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Many Association Career Centers are more like career centers, so engaging your members with quality content is one way to provide a richer advisory service. Guidelines for how to create accessible content and regular reviews to check accessibility would also be useful. Writing for accessibility goes way beyond making everything on the page available as text. It also affects the way you organize content and the way you guide readers through a page. Have a look through the below checklist and considering the following when creating accessible content:

• Make sure everything is readable. Review colors in particular, do they provide sufficient contrast for text to be readable?

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