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<span style="color: #172b4d">Students, faculty, and staff can create accessible media and multimedia or remediate inaccessible media and multimedia.</span>

Media includes images, videos, and audio. In order to be accessible, practice the following principles:

- **Images must have alternate text.** This means an equivalent description of the image. If an image contains text, the alt text must include the same text in the image.
- **Videos must have an alternative or an audio track that provides equivalent information.** This means that there must either be a full description of the visuals in the video, or an audio description must be provided.
- **Audio must have an alternative, such as captions or a transcript, that shows all auditory information (including important sounds).**

If there is a pedagogical or business reason media with flashing or blinking content is needed, provide a warning to users.

> ℹ️ <span style="color: #333333">Additional information can be found on the </span>[IT Accessibility Website's Media and Multimedia Page](https://accessibility.its.uconn.edu/media-and-multimedia/)<span style="color: #333333">.</span>

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