Accessibility Essentials
Creating and remediating digitally accessible documents requires foundational skills, some of which are listed below. While this list is not exhaustive of all accessibility concerns, users unfamiliar with designing digitally accessible documents or users who are trying to remediate a particular accessibility issue they are unfamiliar with can find some guidance here.
Accessibility Reporting
Insights
View accessibility information from Ally (Canvas) and Popetech (WordPress) using the report dashboards on Insights.
Accessible Video
Panopto Captions
Captions are essential for all videos. Learn how to review and correct automatic captions in Panopto to make them digitally accessible.
Document Remediation
PDFs
Learn how to OCR scanned documents, add alt-text to images, tag PDFs, and correct document headings.
Accessible Images
Alt-text
Alt-text is what a screen reader uses to interpret an image. Alt-text descriptions should be concise, yet also must include all information conveyed visually.
Navigating Sites & Documents
Headings
Headings are what a screen reader uses to navigate the page/document that is being viewed.
SitE & Document Readability
Color Contrast
Proper color contrast helps users see the content on the screen. To ensure that your text has sufficient contrast, use a contrast checker.
Document Remediation
PowerPoints
Learn to fix common PowerPoint accessibility issues include: missing alt-text, color contrast issues, and reading order errors.
