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Creating Accessible Word and PDF Documents

Register for Creating Accessible Documents Workshop

Download the Student Guide (login required) 

  • Introduction to Accessibility
    • Need for Accessible Content
    • Types of Disabilities
    • General Accessibility Concepts and Guidelines
  • Creating Accessible Word Documents
    • Font
    • Styles
    • View the Navigation Pane
    • Use Headings to Create a Table of Contents
    • Blank Space
    • Graphics
    • Tables
    • Hyperlinks
  • Checking Document Accessibility
    • Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker
    • Handling Legacy Documents
  • Creating Accessible Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
    • Convert a Document to a PDF File
    • Run “Make Accessible Wizard”
    • Touch Up Reading Order Tool
    • Checking Document Accessibility
  • Creating Accessible Outlook Email Messages
    • Font
    • Styles
    • Creating clear, concise, complete and correct email messages

Evaluating Your Website for Accessibility

Register for Evaluating Your Website for Accessibility 

Download the Web Accessibility Manual Evaluation Checklist 

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  • Background 
  • Highlights of legal actions against other colleges

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  • What checkpoints can be evaluated automated, which manually

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  • How people with different types of disabilities access content on the web

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  •  WAVE 
  • HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff: reviewing scan results

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  •  Navigation & headings
  • Tab focus & tab order 
  • skip to main content (visible vs invisible)
  • link text 
  • contrast
  • use of color to convey meaning
  • forms & error identification 
  • other: page title, language, images containing text
  • video & audio

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Visit the ITSAccessibility.syr.edu website for descriptions of on-going workshops and registration forms.

Visit our /wiki/spaces/ITHELP/pages/159940671 webpage for tutorials.


Please check back in November for information related to the 2019 AHG conference.