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Best Practices by Application

All members of the CMU community should be able to understand and interact with your content in meaningful ways. Not sure where to start with accessibility? Scroll down and view the basics by type of content. Please note that this list is not comprehensive. Manual testing may be required to determine accessibility. 

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Our Guidelines

Carnegie Mellon University websites are required to provide equal opportunity to people with disabilities, according to the guidelines set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 standards. At a minimum, CMU websites should maintain conformance with Level AA success criteria.