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Plain language benefits all users, including people with cognitive disabilities, low reading literacy, and people who are encountering an unknown topic or language.

Language that is difficult to read and understand is a potential barrier for all users, but particularly for people who have cognitive disabilities.

Guidelines and resources to make your content accessible.

Structure the page content and presentation to support scanning. Make the substance and purpose of the content and functionality readily apparent, and help people quickly find the information they are seeking.

Content should be presented in a way that allows people to access and understand information without undue effort.

Readable content is accessible content. You should aim to choose words and sentence structures that are not difficult or unnecessarily time-consuming to read for your target audience.

Maximizing typography for legibility.

To check the accessibility of your content, it's important to use both automated tools and non-technical tests. To manually test your site, review the content, test with a keyboard, and use a screen reader to make sure your website is accessible to all...

Whether you are sending an email, writing a document, managing a web page, or reviewing a Canvas course, these essentials can help you make your content accessible and ensure your message comes through clearly to your audience.

Whether you’re writing simple, everyday emails or designing marketing messages for a large audience, many of the same accessibility principles for content creation also apply to email. These guidelines and recommendations will benefit everyone and help...

Structural markup is markup that reflects the semantic meaning of page content.