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Accessibility Principles [Updated 2023] - Accessibility Toolkit for Open Educational Resources (OER) - Library Guides at CUNY Office of Library Services

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For accessibility to become embedded in our everyday thinking and world, we all need to realize the role we all can play in accessibility. We need to incorporate accessibility into workflows and considerations. Try to step back and think "is X accessible? is there a way I can make Y accessible?" Ensuring accessibility does not need to be part of a person's job description or a person's personal experience and life to become something all people can participate in. This page covers why accessibility matters, web guidelines and descibes the four main pillars of accessibility. There are four main guiding principles of accessibility upon which WCAG has been built. These four principles are known by the acronym POUR for perceivable, operable, understandable and robust. POUR is a way of approaching web accessibility by breaking it down into these four main aspects. Many of the technology challenges faced by disabled people/people with disabilities can be described using one of the POUR p

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