Get help

• Find a Career Services Office within your school or college to schedule an appointment for support if the barriers within Handshake prevent you from accessing information, applying for a position, or registering for an event. 

• Contact the DoIT Help Desk for general assistance or to report an accessibility or usability barrier.

Additional resources

• Handshake accessibility statement

Accessibility and usability barriers 

The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist.

Application and event registration workflows are inaccessible via keyboard and screen reader

Users navigating via keyboard or screen reader may not be able to place focus within essential content areas. Some affected areas include popup windows for applying for positions within the Handshake platform and the content cards on the Events page where users can register for events. 

Lack of status updates creates barriers to information discovery

Throughout the platform, many interactions such as entering search terms, toggling filter options, and loading new content or pages do not communicate a status update via screen reader, which can make navigation and discovering information difficult.

Viewport becomes crowded at high magnification levels

When the browser is magnified above 250%, the navigation bar can crowd the viewport and make it difficult to view page content.