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
Download the PowerPoint for this workshop
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