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Accessibility

These are faculty tutorials geared toward teaching about accessibility. These help faculty improve the accessibility of online course materials.

April 16, 2025 By Sandra Childers

Word Accessibility Cheat Sheet

Review this Word Accessibility Cheat Sheet when you need quick instructions on how to create accessible Word documents. Here are the basics.

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March 24, 2025 By Sandra Childers

Accessibility Fundamentals

This tutorial includes accessibility fundamentals to help make all your digital content accessible.

The goal is to create an equitable learning experience for all students, giving them an equitable opportunity to succeed in your course.

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December 12, 2023 By Sandra Childers

Using the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Word

Word's Review tab within the ribbon includes a button to Check Accessibility.

When it comes to accessibility, one of the best things about Microsoft Word is its internal Accessibility Checker. It’s never been easier to find and fix accessibility issues in your documents — especially if you have Microsoft 365!

This tutorial introduces you to how Microsoft Word’s Accessibility Checker works.

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April 28, 2023 By Sandra Childers

How to Add Word’s Accessibility Checker to your Quick Access Toolbar

Select the customize quick access toolbar down arrow in the top-left corner of Word.

Did you know Office programs have their own internal Accessibility Checker? In this tutorial, you’ll see how to add the Accessibility Checker to your Quick Access Toolbar so it’s always visible.

This can help you check your documents for accessibility issues more frequently, thus making your documents more accessible.

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February 15, 2023 By Sandra Childers

Intro to Accessibility: The What, Why, and How of Accessibility

Equality vs. Equity illustrated. Equality = all receives the same and not everyone can see over barrier. Equity = everyone gets what they need to see over the barrier.

Welcome to the Intro to Accessibility tutorial!

We will discuss the what, why, and how of accessibility: what it is, why it’s important, and how we do it.

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September 29, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Create an Accessible Word Document

The Styles section contains such styles as Normal, Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Emphasis, Strong, Quote, and Intense Quote.

Follow this guide to help you create an accessible Word document for all your students.

Use the accessibility fundamentals and Word’s internal Accessibility Checker together to ensure you create accessible course materials for your students. This helps ensure every student has an equitable chance of succeeding in your course.

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September 1, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Convert a Word Document to an Accessible PDF

Below the Save as type drop-down menu, there's another place to insert a Title. This is the document title.

This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document to an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As of Save a Copy feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.

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August 17, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Add a Document Title into a Word Document or PDF

A missing document title is one of the most common accessibility errors found in PDFs uploaded to Canvas. It is also one of the simplest to fix (if you know how to do it).

This tutorial provides instructions for how to add a document title into a Word document and a PDF.

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November 11, 2020 By Sandra Childers

How to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word

On the Insert tab, select the Add Table button, 2nd from the left.

Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.

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October 13, 2020 By Sandra Childers

Contrast & Color Accessibility

Good and Bad contrast examples accompanied by their contrast ratios. White on off-white is horrid at 1.12 to 1. Red text on yellow is also bad at 3.72 to 1. On the contrary, dark blue on light blue has a good contrast at 5.24 to 1, black on a light purple has a better contrast at 13.9 to 1, and white text on a black background has the best contrast at 21 to 1.

Contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.

This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).

Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.

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