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Maricopa Community Colleges’ District Marketing and ITS teams are committed to ensuring accessibility standards in our Drupal websites. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 508 from the U.S.’s Health and Human Services (HHS) department, our sites must meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards, though we strive for AAA wherever possible.

Ensuring Web Accessibility Compliance

Since creating and maintaining websites is a collaborative process, it takes the work of many to ensure accessibility compliance. Web developers, web designers, content creators, content editors, and subject matter experts all play a role. To this end, it is important to distinguish the two main areas that dictate how accessible our websites are: 1) web content and 2) web development.

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*Information taken from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – read more by following this link to their site