• The Center for User Experience

• Department of Justice Accessibility Ruling

• Digital accessibility fundamentals

• Accessibility vs accommodation

• Plain Language Training

• EduCause Accessibility Guide

For Questions or Consultations: email edtech@med.wisc.edu

• Campus Templates

• SMPH Templates

• Inclusive PowerPoints

Provide a text description of an image.

• How to write effective alt text

• Recommendations When Writing Alt Text

• Multimedia accessibility

• Media Solutions Video Best Practices

• Use uniform and hierarchical headings to structure the document

• Use the simplest table configuration possible, and only use tables when needed

  • Tables are best for data, not layout

• Use link text that describes the destination of the link

• Use the editing toolbar to create numbered or bulleted lists (instead of using the Tab key to format lists)

• Use Microsoft Word’s built-in accessibility checker

• https://it.wisc.edu/learn/make-it-accessible/documents/testing/#microsoft-word-and-powerpoint

• Color Contrast Grid

Learn more about accessible Word documents.

• Give each slide a unique title and place the title within the slide (not above or below it)

• Use sans serif fonts like Red Hat or Arial

• Avoid content-heavy slides and use at least 1.5 line spacing

• Include alternative text descriptions on all images

• Use strong contrast between text and background colors

• Make sure slide content can be read in the correct order

• UW IT Document Accessibility Guide - Word and PPT

• Color Contrast Grid

• Use uniform and hierarchical headings to structure the document. How to add headings to a Google Doc

• Use simple tables to display data (and not to structure your document or slide)

• Use link text that describes the destination of the link

• Use the editing toolbar to create numbered or bulleted lists (instead of using the Tab key to format lists). How to add a numbered list or bulleted list

• UW IT Document Accessibility Guide - Google Docs

• Color Contrast Grid

For step-by-step instructions, refer to Google’s guide on how to make your document or presentation more accessible.

• Start with an accessible document before converting to PDF.

• Learn how to create accessible PDFs.

• Follow Adobe’s guide on PDF accessibility.

• Scanned images of text are not accessible.

  • If you must use a scanned document, it should not have highlights, underlines, binding shadows or clipped lines.

  • Scanned PDFs cannot be tagged unless you use optical character recognition (OCR) to recognize text first.

• UW IT Document Accessibility Guide - Adobe PDF

For video tutorials on how to tag PDFs, refer to the LinkedIn Learning course on Creating Accessible PDFs.

• UDL Guidelines

• Course Material Accessibility

• UDOIT KB

• Accessible Canvas Pages - Formatting Tips

• How to Copy HTML to Canvas Pages

• How to Edit Buttons in Canvas Accessible Course Pages

• Color Contrast Grid 

• Zoom Accessibility and Usability Information

• TopHat Accessibility and Usability Information