Web Accessibility Guidelines and Support Services

For help, contact: Karen Sorensen

PCC Distance Learning is commited to making all online courses accessible to all students.

As of Spring term 2012, the content in all new and revised online courses (including content that is linked to from the course) must adhere to the accessibility guidelines listed below. There are just a few critical things that need to be integrated into the course development process to make PCC courses accessible to all online students. Accessible courses serve a broad audience that includes, students with disabilities, ESOL students, students with different learning styles and students who use emerging mobile technologies.

Online faculty developing and revising courses are supported by Instructional Support, Distance Learning, Disability Services, the Faculty Help Desks and online faculty mentors in their efforts to make their courses accessible. In addition, trainings on these guidelines are available. And this website provides information on how to achieve these guidelines.

These guidelines are based on the WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) AA standards, which are internationally accepted web accessibility guidelines.

Guidelines To Make Accessible Documents


Webpages, Presentations, Documents, PDFs

And check your documents with Accessibility Testing Tools.

Guidelines To Make Accessible Media

Audio Recordings, Videos, Slide shows, Animations