Welcome to the Intro to Accessibility tutorial!
We will discuss the what, why, and how of accessibility: what it is, why it’s important, and how we do it.
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The Accessibility Series is a series of tutorials to help Texas A&M Engineering faculty create accessible documents and presentations.
How to Create an Accessible Word Document
Following this guide will help you create an accessible Word document for all your students. Using accessible course materials is essential, so every student has an equitable chance of succeeding in your online course(s).
Apply each element to greatly impact the accessibility of your documents.
Continue ReadingHow to Convert a Word Document into an Accessible PDF
This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document into an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.
Continue ReadingHow to Add a Document Title into a Word Document or PDF
A missing document title is one of the most common accessibility errors found in PDFs uploaded to Canvas. It is also one of the simplest to fix (if you know how to do it).
This tutorial provides instructions for how to add a document title into a Word document and a PDF.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Continue ReadingContrast & Color Accessibility
Contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.
This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).
Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Links
It is important to create accessible links throughout your documents and courses for your students. In this post, we’ll provide guidelines to help you create accessible links.
We’ll show several “bad” and “good” link examples to help you create helpful links for use in your documents and course web pages.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Images
Images meant to convey meaning must have an alternate or “alt” text descriptions. Decorative images must be marked as such so they can be skipped by screen readers.
Doing both ensures you will create a document with accessible images throughout.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Headings in Microsoft Word
Headings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or web page) to jump from heading to heading to find information.
When you create accessible headings, every student can scan your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.
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