Accessibility in Marketing & Communications

Making JCC media & content accessible

Jamestown Community College is committed to the creation of accessible media in our marketing and communications. We design and produce content in accordance with industry standard accessibility practices and the SUNY Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility plan. As best practices and standards evolve, our requirements will also evolve.

Content that is provided to Marketing and Communications for use in JCC media must follow accessibility standards. If provided content is not accessible, it will not be used.

PDFs submitted for website use will not be used if they are not made accessible. Please prepare your PDFs for accessibility before submitting.

Forms & instructions

  • Write forms and instructions so that they do not rely solely on size, shape, color, visual location, or sound.
  • Do not include flashing content. If content is animated (passes through time), the user must be able to halt the timing.

Images

Non-discrimination notice

Official correspondence includes the non-discrimination notice.

PDFs & other documents

  • Ensure accessibility in your original editable document before saving as a PDF.
  • Include title, author (Jamestown Community College), subject, and keywords.
  • Create and edit tags to give structural meaning and navigation to the document.
  • Ensure that the reading order and tab order are logical.
  • Set your metadata, such as document language.
  • If your document uses any of the following, the feature must be accessible:
    • Use styles to properly convey items like headings, lists, and table of contents.
    • Use insert for headers, footers, and tables.
    • Use layout to create columns.
    • Use brand fonts for readability.
    • Include alternative text for images, graphs, and charts.
    • Use proper color contrast.
    • Create hyperlinks that are visually distinguishable and specific in instruction.
    • Do not use flashing or blinking content.

Helpful resources for document accessibility:

Videos, audio, & multimedia

  • Include a transcript with videos for closed captions.
  • Ensure that audio is high quality so that it can be understood.
  • Do not use flashing or blinking content.
  • More photo and video requirements »

Website design & development

Jamestown Community College is committed to providing a website that is accessible to all users. We are actively working to increase the accessibility and usability of our website in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) through the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We use the WCAG as our standard for accessibility and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

We are continually seeking out solutions that will improve website accessibility. If you experience any difficulty in accessing the Jamestown Community College website, please contact us at Marketing@mail.sunyjcc.edu.

To meet WCAG, the website uses specific content and development processes, purposefully designed page types, and other tools to meet requirements.

Writing style

  • Emphasize the individual.
  • When writing emails, use the JCC email signature to display your name and contact information, and do not leave a blank subject line.
  • Use they/them/theirs pronouns for singular and plural use.

Helpful resources for writing style: