Digital Information Accessibility Policy 851
Rice Policy 851 establishes a standard and framework for digital information accessibility at Rice University. Rice faculty, staff, and students share values essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rice’s culture. To truly achieve community, we must all work to produce digital information that everyone can use and access equally and independently.
General Policy
As part of our commitment to community and accessibility, it is the policy of Rice University that all forms of Digital Information should be provided in a way that is accessible to all members of the Rice community, including those with disabilities.
The purpose of this policy is to provide the required Accessibility Standards for all publicly available web pages created, implemented, or modified after October 31, 2020. Additionally, this policy provides a framework to remediate existing publicly available web pages information in a timely manner.
Other Digital Information (such as internal web pages, Canvas, or applications) should be designed to maximize accessibility, and must meet federal requirements of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as well as our own University Policy 851.
Issued August 31, 2020