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

Fundamentals of Creating Accessible Web Pages

Register for Evaluating Your Website for Accessibility 

• 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