Centralized Communications Accessibility Hub Resource Links
Updated March 6, 2026

Legal Standards & Deadlines:

• ADA Title II Compliance Fact Sheet: Web Rule Summary
  • Details on the April 2026 and 2027 deadlines.
• WCAG 2.1 Guidelines (The Official Rulebook): W3C Recommendation
  • The technical standards we are aiming for (Level AA).

Content Creation Tools (POUR Principles):

• Color Contrast Checker: WebAIM Contrast Tool
  • Ensure your text is readable against background colors.
• Alternative Text Guide: Section 508 Alt-Text Basics
  • How to describe images for screen readers.
• Writing for Accessibility: Columbia University Guide
  • Best practices for plain language and formatting.
• Descriptive Links: Why "Click Here" Is Out
  • Moving toward meaningful link text.

Video & Social Media:

• Captioning vs. Subtitles: What’s the difference?
• SFSU Captioning Resource: Best Practices
  • A guide to making video content accessible.
• Nichols Strategies’ Digital Accessibility Professional Learning Community (PLC)
  • A virtual learning community for school communications professionals looking to enhance the accessibility of their communications.
• Three Key Strategies for Creating More Accessible Content
  • Short 8.5 minute basics YouTube video.

Training & Recordings:

• Emily Popek Lunch & Learn September 2025
  • NYSPRA session on digital accessibility basics. Highly recommend!
• Accessibility On-Demand Webinar: Watch the Accessibility On-Demand Webinar Recording
  • Note: You will need to provide your information to watch this, and it is a sales pitch for their service. However, I still found it helpful to understand what goes into PDF remediation.

Cheat Sheets:

• Digital Accessibility Checklist: Canva Guide 1
• Inclusive Comms Standards: Canva Guide 2
• Accessibility Basics Reference: Canva Guide 3

Theory & Mindset AKA “The Why”:

• Accessible Social: accessible-social.com
  • Why inclusive content matters for social media.
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility In Mind): webaim.org
  • The industry standard for empowering organizations to create accessible content.
• The Mismatch Principle: Kat Holmes’ Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
  • Shifting the focus from "fixing people" to "fixing mismatches."
• Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
• Alice Sheppard: Kinetic Light 'DESCENT' Research in 2017
  • Access can be about creativity and beauty, not just functionality.

It is the goal of Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES and EduTech that the information contained in our websites (wflboces.org and edutech.org) be accessible to all individuals, including those with visual, hearing or cognitive disabilities. Our aim is to comply with current New York State standards on website accessibility. (New York State OFT Policy, P08-005, Accessibility of Web-Based Information and Applications).

To this end, we are in the process of reviewing our sites and modifying pages that are found to have accessibility issues. The majority of information on our sites is available in HTML format that can be deciphered by screen readers.

Please click here to report an issue: Link to Accessibility Issue Reporting Webpage