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Contribute accessibility features

Accessibility refers to making websites and web products usable by people with visual, auditory, motor, and other disabilities. Contribute provides features that make it accessible to users with disabilities.

It’s important to make your web pages accessible to all your website visitors.

The U.S. government and other organizations have established accessibility legislation and guidelines. For more information about two significant initiatives, see the World Wide Web Consortium Web Accessibility Initiative (www.w3.org/wai) and Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act (www.section508.gov).

Also, as you edit your pages, remember that some visitors use screen readers. Contribute helps you make your images and tables more accessible in the following ways:

  • You can add text that screen readers recite to describe images on your pages. Your Contribute administrator can have Contribute prompt you for descriptive text whenever you insert an image. For more information, talk to your Contribute administrator or see Set page-editing and paragraph settings.

  • You can include table headings to be recited by screen readers. To insert tables with headings, see Insert tables.

Note: Screen readers do not read boldface headings centered in a row or column.