{"id":5,"date":"2022-06-15T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/web-accessibility-stakeholders\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:26:56","slug":"web-accessibility-stakeholders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Website accessibility is a marathon, not a sprint."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Boston University has a long-standing commitment to high standards for website accessibility. For <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010410101019\/http:\/www.bu.edu\/webcentral\/learning\/html\/basics\/links.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over 25 years (Internet Archive link)<\/a> the University has provided tools and training that incorporate website accessibility best practices. In 2018, we further codified this commitment by publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/mwas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minimum Web Accessibility Standards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 120%;\">Maintaining accessible website content is not only BU policy; it is the law.<\/span><\/em> State and federal guidelines require websites, course materials and other digital content to meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG21\/\">WCAG 2.1 Level AA<\/a>\u00a0guidelines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Join this effort.<\/strong> As a web editor, you don&#8217;t need to train for a sprint or marathon. Publishing accessible web content is a matter of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/best-practices\/\">learning a handful of simple best practices<\/a> and a <strong><em>commitment to implement those best practices consistently<\/em><\/strong> when you are editing and publishing web content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University has a long-standing commitment to high standards for website accessibility. For over 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/webaccessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}