What is this and why are you calling it a clinic?

Sites Remediation Project staff will be available online most weeks for folks to drop-in/drop-out at their convenience to answer questions and assist with accessibility fixes and problems for websites on the Sites@UMBC platform.  We're calling it a clinic because we're here to help you fix your problems and answer your questions, but this won't be a space where we are hosting lectures or workshops.  We do encourage site admins to come hang out and share in the collective learning, even if they don't have a problem or question that week!

What is the clinic able to do?

• Answering questions about:

• Navigating Silktide

• Understanding Silktide's Accessibility reports

• Understanding the WCAG guidelines: technical (What is this? Where is the problem on my page?  What do I need to change to fix it?)

• Understanding the WCAG guidelines: non-technical (Why is this important?  What are the potential impacts if I don't fix it?) We all come to this work from different levels of understanding and life experience, and we welcome questions intended to broaden your understanding of disability and accessibility and how they play into inclusive excellence.

• How or where to get started in remediating your Site, or how to understand our recommended remediation process

• Assisting with:

• Fixes for common issues - we are happy to screen share and walk through fixing an instance as an example

• Fixes for unusual or uncommon one-off accessibility problems, usually due to custom HTML/CSS - if necessary, we will move into a breakout room to troubleshoot

• Sharing:

• A Site or page that has solved for a similar problem, and walking through how a site admin could replicate it

• Examples of "best practice" accessibility fixes that are not always straightforward, such as "what does good alt-text look like?"

• Additional resources, where needed

What is the clinic unable to do?

• Entire Site remediations

• Fixing large quantities of common accessibility problems