Title II Accessibility Resources

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In 2024, the Department of Justice updated its regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), mandating that all university web and mobile content conform to the WCAG 2.1 AA standards for web accessibility by April 24, 2026. This page includes resources for helping SEBS/NJAES faculty and staff create and maintain accessible web content that will comply with the updated standards while providing a positive experience for our community.

General Accessibility Training Website Accessibility Scans Creating Accessible Web Content Archiving Old Documents Roles and Responsibilities for Accessibility Compliance

General

  • Rutgers Office of Information Technology Accessibility Services - Rutgers' main source of resources and tools for faculty members, web designers/developers, and other university staff, to aid in web accessibility, online course accessibility, instructional materials, assistive and adaptive technology, video/multimedia captioning, and software procurement.

Accessibility Training

Website Accessibility Scans

SEBS Web Team staff members conduct monthly accessibility scans of SEBS websites using Deque Axe Monitor. When accessibility issues arise, we contact responsible parties to work out a remediation plan.

For scanning webpages on a page-by-page basis, use the Deque Axe DevTools Browser Extension.

Creating Accessible Web Content

These resources are intended to help faculty and staff create and maintain accessible web pages:

Web Accessibility Checklist

The following documents are part of Rutgers Information Technology's Web Accessibility Checklist:

Product-Specific Accessibility Tips

These resources are intended to help faculty and staff remediate accessibility issues found within documents hosted on their websites.

Before remediating a document, consider whether it still needs to be hosted on your website. It may be easier to remove old documents, and the links to those files, than it would be to complete the remediation process.

If the information in the document does need to remain on your website, consider converting the document to webpage, which will be much easier to remediate than the document would be.

Adobe InDesign

Canva

Canvas

Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint)

PDFs

Archiving Old Documents

Under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), certain content is exempt from meeting the WCAG 2.1, Level AA standards. For example, archived web content that meets all four of the following points would not need to meet WCAG 2.1, Level AA:

  1. The content was created before the date the state or local government must comply with this rule, or reproduces paper documents or the contents of other physical media (audiotapes, film negatives, and CD-ROMs for example) that were created before the government must comply with this rule, AND
  2. The content is kept only for reference, research, or recordkeeping, AND
  3. The content is kept in a special area for archived content, AND
  4. The content has not been changed since it was archived.

The SEBS web team has created a special website for housing archived PDFs. If you need assistance archiving documents on your website, please submit a request and the web team will assist you.

Roles and Responsibilities for Accessibility Compliance

SEBS Web Team

  • Review and resolve issues on pages managed by the SEBS Team, including general content updates.

Faculty Members

  • Maintain accessibility for Canvas course content, research pages, and documents.
  • Convert PDFs and instructional materials for Canvas into accessible formats or move them into accessible web formats.
  • Support and guidance available from the SEBS Web Team as needed.

Department Administrative Staff

  • Verify that event and program materials including flyers and graphics meet accessibility standards on the department websites.
  • Support and guidance available from the SEBS Web Team as needed.