• Faculty and Staff in Public Institutions: UTSA is directly impacted by the new rules, with a focus on everyone ensuring that all digital content is directly accessible to align with compliance standards.  
• UTSA Students and Community Members: These efforts enhance everyone’s access to education and services.  
• Vendors, Contractors, and Publishers: Digital tools, applications, content, and services purchased, licensed, or used by UTSA through an agreement with a third party as part of UTSA’s programs and services must align with accessibility standards.  

The rules apply to active web and app content, including:  

• Text, images, sound, videos, and files (e.g., digital content within courses). When selecting external content, it should be vetted for accessibility or collaborate with the Digital Accessibility Team and Student Disability Services to determine what alternatives exist 
• Websites (main and subsidiary sites) and web-based processes (e.g., student registration portals, online application forms, learning management system).  
• Mobile applications, vendor, and publisher content used by UTSA as part of programs and services.  

Exceptions, such as undue burden or fundamental alteration, exist but apply only in limited circumstances and are held to a very high standard. Most content is expected to comply.

UTSA has developed the 11.10 Web and Digital Accessibility Compliance policy. 

We offer resources and training to create accessible content: 

• A great way to start learning about common accessibility barriers in digital content is to enable automated accessibility checkers. While these checkers do not catch everything, they can raise awareness and provide feedback for addressing some of the most common accessibility barriers. 
  Examples include:
  • Ally (within Canvas) and the accessibility checker in Microsoft Office products. To check the accessibility of websites, free tools like ANDI, and WebAIM’s WAVE are available.
• To learn more about digital accessibility and common accessibility barriers in digital content, we have created the following resources:
  • UTSA Digital Accessibility
  • Course Design Accessibility Resources
  • Starting Six Accessibility Essentials
  • Creating Accessible Canvas Experiences (PressBooks)
• You can email the Digital Accessibility Team or the Web Accessibility Coordinator with questions related to digital and web accessibility, to request a group training, or request a consultation. You can also check UTSA MyTraining for upcoming trainings related to these topics.
• We also offer proactive captioning support and limited document remediation. 

Together, we can work toward compliance and provide an accessible experience.