Capacity building resources for Faculty.

The following Web Accessibility for All’s Tutorials on the Web provide information on different aspects of accessible design

  1. Accessibility Features of MS Word
    Learn what electronic accessibility features Microsoft Word has available to users.

  2. Creating Accessible Word and Word Perfect Documents by Using Markup
    Even Microsoft Word and WordPerfect documents can be made accessible! Learn to use structural markup to create headers, headings and even bulleted lists before turning your documents into PDFs and Web pages.

  3. Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations
    Powerpoint documents need to be made accessible also. This tutorial will show you how.

  4. Learning About PDF Accessibility
    Learn how to create accessible PDF files from scratch & also learn about the various online tools available to make your Acrobat documents accessible.

  5. Creating Alternate Text (Alt-Text) for Images
    One of the most important and easiest ways to make your page accessible is to make sure that every image that conveys information on your Website has Alt Text associated with it.

  6. How to Create Descriptive Text for Graphs, Charts & other Diagrams
    Web Accessibility Tutorial for Creating Descriptive Text for Diagrams, Charts & Other Graphics

  7. School of Aquatic Arts--Learn Section 508 Guidelines by Example
    In order to illustrate the best practices for accessible web page design, we have created a website that contains both Inaccessible & Accessible pages. These examples should provide solutions to the most common accessibility issues currently facing web content managers.

    Web Accessibility for All Evaluation Tools

  8. WAFA’s Course Management and Systems Accessibility page
    Learn more about the accessibility features available in commonly-used Course Management Systems such as D2L, WebCT, and Blackboard.

  9. Web Accessibility for All’s Faculty Needs Assessment

    Web Accessibility for All’s videos:

  10. Faculty Roles in Maintaining Electronic Accessibility

  11. Making Office Documents Accessible Webcast
    This video is from a Webcast that the Web Accessibility For All group gave on making office documents accessible. It also contains a screen reader demo. The video is 1 hour and 12 minutes long Get Windows Media Player

  12. PDF Accessibility Webcast
    This video is a Web Cast that the Web Accessibility for All group gave on PDFs and accessibility. The video is 54 minutes long. Get Windows Media Player

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  13. CAST-What is Universal Design for Learning
    Read about CAST's solution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL) which provides a blueprint for accommodating learner differences.