Accessible University (AU) is a fictional university home page designed to demonstrate a variety of common web design problems that result in visitors with disabilities being unable to access content or features.
AU was originally developed by AccessIT and is maintained by AccessComputing, both projects based out of the University of Washington. Use the AU site to:
- demonstrate common web accessibility principles at trainings, presentations, and workshops on accessible web design.
- learn common web accessibility problems and solutions in an easy-to-understand way.
See AU in action at uw.edu/accesscomputing/AU.
Joel Crawford-Smith of Duke University has created a version that uses the Twitter Bootstrap framework. See Joel's live demo site or Joel's project on GitHub.
We welcome your feedback about the web accessibility issues we're choosing to feature, as well as the solutions we're using in the accessible version. We also welcome feature requests. Please share your feedback as an Issue on GitHub.
Accessible University by University of Washington is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
This product was originally developed with support from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research of the U.S. Department of Education (grant #H133D010306), and has been subsequently updated and maintained with support from the National Science Foundation (grant #CNS-054061S). The contents do not necessarily represent the policies of the U.S. federal government, and you should not assume their endorsement.