Accessibility Resources
Distance Education Accessibility Guidelines
- To Care and Comply: Accessibility of Online Course Content Video by PCC
- Screen Reader User's Experience and MS Word Video
Resources on How to Make Your Files Accessible
Word Files
Heading Styles help the organization of the content for all students
Tables are very useful for displaying a large amount of data in an organized manner, such as your course schedule, office hours, etc. To make a table accessible for individuals who are blind, have a visual impairment, or a learning disability, provide row and column headers. The text-to-speech software by default will read the information in a table horizontally, cell by cell, row by row.
PowerPoint Files
- Creating Accessible MS PowerPoint Documents
- Tips for PowerPoint by Penn State University
- PowerPoint Accessibility by Portland Community College
- Use the Accessbility Checker for Windows to find and resolve accessibility issues
- Use the Accessibility checker for Mac to find and resolve accessibility issues
Adobe Acrobat Video Files
Excel Files
- Make your Excel spreadsheets accessible
- Use the Accessbility Checker for Windows to find and resolve accessibility issues
- Use the Accessibility checker for Mac to find and resolve accessibility issue
Making your Image, Audio, and Video Accessible in Canvas
- How to embed images from the web and add "alt text" or "alt tag" to a photo.
- How to embed images from Canvas and add "alt text" to a photo.
- How to embed images from Flickr Creative Commons and add "alt text" to a photo in the Rich Content Editor.
- CANVAS - How to Use the Accessibility Checker in the Rich Content Editor
NOTE: All Videos Must be Closed-Captioned and All Audios Must Have a Transcript
Tips for Creating Good Hyperlinks
- Use meaningful descriptions of what the link is when creating links. The linked text should make sense out of context.
- Don't use the word "link" in the link description.
- Avoid describing links with phrases such as "click here," "more information," & "read more."
- Don't use the URL of the website in the link.
Other Helpful Links
- University of Washington's Accessible Technology - Making Images Accessible
- CSUN's Universal Design Center - Best Practices for Accessible Images
- Creating Accessbile Electronic Documents - A Compiilation of Federal Guidance, Checklists, and Testing Information for Creating and Maintaining Accessible Documents, including Word, PDF, Excel, and PowerPoint
Video Tutorial - Creating Accessible Documents in MS Word by Gaier Dietrich
- Video Tutorial - Creating Accessible Documents Training by Galer Dietrich (3-hour presentation)
- Creating Accessible Documents Training by Galer Dietrich (Portable Document Format)
- Creating Accessible Documents Training by Galer Dietrich (PowerPoint Presentation)
To alleviate paperwork and time, we are requesting that you use 3C Media to submit your videos to be closed captioned (must upload the videos specifically to their website) to use 3C Media for closed captioning, you can go to: http://www.3cmediasolutions.org