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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 

  • SU Information and Communications Technology Accessibility Policy
    • Background 
    • Highlights of legal actions against other colleges
  • Interpreting the WCAG 2.0 AA Guidelines
    • What checkpoints can be evaluated automated, which manually
  • Steps for manually checking accessibility 
    • How people with different types of disabilities access content on the web
  • Automated accessibility checker
    •  WAVE 
    • HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff: reviewing scan results
  • Brief introduction to screen readers
  • Design considerations
    •  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
  •  Captioning vendors and tools

Video Captioning

Register for Video Captioning

Download the Video Captioning PowerPoint for this workshop; Download the text version of the Video Captioning Workshop PowerPoint

This workshop is designed for anyone who manages, creates or maintains video content and is offered in two parts.

Part 1: Captioning basics and third party services

  • Audience considerations
  • Caption types and terminology
  • Cost and resource considerations for DIY vs. captioning vendors
  • Vendor comparisons 

Part 2. DIY captioning (optional)

  • Hands-on experience with captioning tools (please bring ear buds or headphones)
  • Caption file formats
  • Captioning rules and quality control
  • Costs and resources

 

 

 


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