{"id":1467,"date":"2025-10-13T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/?post_type=documentation_guides&#038;p=1467"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:52:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T18:52:24","slug":"recommended-actions-how-to-prioritize","status":"publish","type":"documentation_guides","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/recommended-actions-how-to-prioritize\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Actions &amp; How to Prioritize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"uwm-l-row\">\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col\">\n<p class=\"size-p-lg\">Providing digital accessibility for individuals with disabilities is crucial to ensuring disabilities is crucial to ensuring e who have disabilities is key to providing equitable access to digital content and technology at 51ÁÔÆæ. Each of us who owns these resources bears the responsibility to deliver upon that promise \u2014 it\u2019s the right thing to do, and it\u2019s the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-personal-actions-that-you-can-take-to-play-your-part\">Personal Actions That You Can Take to Play Your Part<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Inventory<\/strong> \u2013 Conduct an inventory of the technology that you possess or own by platform and where you store content (i.e., a Windows laptop where you use software, and you place content on the local drive and in the cloud using Microsoft OneDrive).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/web\/training\/\">Training<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 You must take training to learn about content or technology that\u2019s inaccessible and what it would take to make it accessible for others. You also can learn about the tools available to support you in this work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Evaluate options<\/strong> \u2013 Upon identifying and reviewing your inaccessible content and technology, you must take action based on future use and value. You can <strong>remediate or archive<\/strong>. To help make your decisions, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/\">Documentation &amp; Guidelines<\/a> section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Use tools<\/strong> \u2013 To remediate your content, use the preferred tools, based on your earlier training.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Creating accessible content and technology<\/strong> \u2013 To avoid adding new content and technology that requires remediation, use what you\u2019ve learned during training to create accessible content and technology going forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-to-prioritize-content-amp-technology-that-requires-remediation\">How to Prioritize Content &amp; Technology That Requires Remediation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-public-content\">Public Content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Highest priority<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Any<strong> <\/strong>student- or public-facing, frequently used academic content and documents, as well as public web content that is accessed often.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>University-wide or unit-specific software used most often by students or the public.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lower priority<\/strong> \u2013 Any content that is not accessed frequently, or unit software that is not used often.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-private-content\">Private Content<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Personal software, private documents and web content that are not accessed by others are the lowest priority.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"uwm-l-col uwm-l-col--4 uwm-l-offset--1\"><div class=\"content_block\" id=\"custom_post_widget-1095\"><nav aria-label=\"Sidebar\" class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list uwm-p-navigation-list--gold-border \"><div class=\"uwm-p-navigation-list--title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/\">Getting Started with Digital Accessibility<\/a><\/div><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/why-digital-accessibility-is-important\/\">Why Digital Accessibility is Important<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/digital-accessibility-at-universities-of-wisconsin\/\">Digital Accessibility at Universities of Wisconsin<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/what-is-in-scope-for-compliance\/\">What is in Scope for Compliance<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/risk-of-non-compliance\/\">Risk of Non-Compliance<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/digital-accessibility-fundamentals-checklist\/\">Fundamentals Checklist<\/a><\/li><li><a class=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/digital-accessibility\/documentation-guides\/getting-started\/recommended-actions-how-to-prioritize\/\"><span aria-current=\"page\">Recommended Actions &amp; 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