Accessibility Tools
Build Accessible Websites Faster
UC San Diego offers centrally supported web platforms that make it easier to create accessible, professional websites. With accessibility-focused templates, managed infrastructure, and ongoing support, departments can launch and maintain websites that provide a more inclusive experience for all users.
UC San Diego Campus CMS
Launch a fully branded UC San Diego website using templates and components that are centrally maintained and continuously improved for accessibility. Focus on your content while the platform helps support a more inclusive user experience.
Simple Sites
Need an easy-to-use and accessible WordPress site? Create a professional WordPress website with an accessible theme, vetted plugins, and campus-supported hosting. Get online quickly with fewer technical barriers and less maintenance.
Amazing free tools and resources at your fingertips
UC San Diego provides free tools to help you identify accessibility issues, test color contrast, and create more inclusive websites. Use Siteimprove to scan your website for accessibility issues, and the Accessible Brand Color Combinations tool to ensure your designs meet WCAG contrast requirements while staying on brand.
Siteimprove Accessibility Testing
Siteimprove is an online service that systematically reviews your websites for accessibility and site quality issues. Siteimprove crawls registered sites and reports accessibility errors and how to fix them. Siteimprove also offers free training, and all of this is free to UC San Diego users under a UC-wide license.
UC San Diego Accessible Brand Color Combinations
Test to see if your text and background colors meet WCAG contrast and legibility standards. This is a customized version of the WebAIM Contrast Checker (linked below), where the options are all acceptable colors within the UC San Diego brand guidelines.
Screen readers
Screen readers are software applications that translate visual information into audible speech. Text is read aloud by a synthesized voice so that sight-impaired users can navigate the website, form, or other application.
NVDA (for Windows)
Test your content using this free, open source, screen reader for the blind and vision-impaired.
VoiceOver (for Mac)
See how your content fares using the screen-reading technology integrated into Apple/Mac operating systems.