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Training, Guides and Tutorials
Below is a curated collection of external training resources to support faculty, staff, and students in creating and maintaining accessible digital content.
External Training and Resources
Accessible Excel Files
Excel Training Resources
Microsoft Office
- Creating accessible Excel files: Use built-in templates and build accessible tables and charts.
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Microsoft Office Accessibility for Beginners – Introduces the core accessibility tools built into Microsoft Office, helping users make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents accessible to all audiences.
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
WebAIM
WebAIM is a non-profit organization focused on accessibility, and offers fee-based, self-paced document and web accessibility training.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility – Provides a comprehensive overview of accessibility goals and design principles.
- Microsoft Excel - Optimizing Spreadsheet Accessibility – Provides guidance on designing accessible spreadsheets with clear structure and formatting.
Accessible PDF
PDF Training Resources
Adobe Acrobat
Access these Adobe training tutorials to assist you with creating accessible PDFs:
- PDF Accessibility Overview – Provides a high-level introduction to accessibility in PDF documents and Adobe’s approach.
- Create and verify PDF accessibility, Acrobat Pro – Walks through creating accessible PDFs and verifying compliance using Acrobat Pro tools.
- Accessibility features in PDFs – Summarizes key accessibility options available within Adobe Acrobat.
- Reading Order tool for PDFs – Explains how to correct the reading order in PDFs to ensure logical content flow for assistive technologies.
- Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features – Describes how readers can use Acrobat’s reflow and assistive features for improved readability.
- Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels (Adobe Acrobat Pro) – Guides users in editing PDF structure to improve navigation and tagging accuracy.
- Creating accessible PDFs in Adobe Acrobat – Details workflows for building accessible PDFs from various source formats.
- Enhance document accessibility with cloud-based auto-tagging – Introduces cloud-powered auto-tagging for improving accessibility in uploaded PDFs.
- Using the accessibility check tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro/DC: Review identified accessibility issues in a PDF with Adobe’s Accessibility Check tool.
- Create searchable, selectable text in a scanned PDF: Convert a scanned PDF using the optical character recognition tool in Adobe Acrobat Pro/DC.
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
- Creating Accessible PDFs – Explains how to design, export, and remediate PDFs so they meet accessibility standards across platforms.
WebAIM
WebAIM is a non-profit organization focused on accessibility, and offers fee-based, self-paced document and web accessibility training.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility – Provides a comprehensive overview of accessibility goals and design principles.
- PDF Accessibility - Setting Up Acrobat – Explains how to configure Acrobat for creating accessible PDFs.
Accessible PowerPoint
PowerPoint Training Resources
Tutorials
Review these short, how-to videos to quickly address accessibility in your digital content:
- Create accessible PowerPoint presentations: Use this step-by-step approach to create presentations with accessibility in mind.
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Microsoft Office Accessibility for Beginners – Introduces the core accessibility tools built into Microsoft Office, helping users make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents accessible to all audiences.
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
WebAIM
WebAIM is a non-profit organization focused on accessibility, and offers fee-based, self-paced document and web accessibility training.
- PowerPoint Accessibility – Details best practices for designing accessible slide presentations.
Accessible Word Document
Office Training Resources
Microsoft Office
- Using headings in Word Documents: Add headings and structure to your document to improve readability and navigation using built-in styles.
- Add alt text to images in Word Documents: Follow the step-by-step instructions to add meaningful text to your images and diagrams.
- Creating descriptive links in Word Documents: Review the steps to making URLs meaningful and understandable in your Word documents.
- Creating accessible tables in Word Documents: Discover how to enhance the understanding of a table’s data and help others recognize meaningful relationships between it.
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Microsoft Office Accessibility for Beginners – Introduces the core accessibility tools built into Microsoft Office, helping users make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents accessible to all audiences.
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
WebAIM
WebAIM is a non-profit organization focused on accessibility, and offers fee-based, self-paced document and web accessibility training.
- Introduction to Web Accessibility – Provides a comprehensive overview of accessibility goals and design principles.
- Microsoft Word - Creating Accessible Documents – Outlines steps to creating Word documents that are accessible to screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
CAST is a non-profit organization known for its Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework that supports accessibility for everyone.
Guides
- UDL Guidelines – Use principles and guidelines of UDL when designing accessible learning environments.
- CAST | UDL Tips for Assessments – Consider these actionable tips for developing fair and accessible assessments based on UDL principles.
Resources
- The National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) for Learning – Part of CAST, the AEM offers resources to help educators create accessible educational materials.
- Center on Inclusive Technology and Education Systems (CITES) – Offers frameworks, strategies, and tools for educators and technologists that support integrating accessible technology.
Microsoft Learn Accessibility Courses
Access these self-paced courses to improve and display your accessibility-related technical skills and knowledge through badges:
- Accessibility fundamentals – Outlines key accessibility principles and how to apply them using Microsoft tools.
- Web accessibility principles and guidelines – Introduces WCAG standards and best practices for accessible web design.
- Learn the basics of web accessibility – Offers a beginner-friendly overview of accessibility considerations in web development.
- Develop products with accessible color and contrast – Demonstrates techniques of effective color and contrast use that meet accessibility criteria.
- Use Microsoft accessibility features – Highlights built-in learning and accessibility tools within Microsoft 365 and Windows.
- Accessibility, special education, and online learning: Supporting equity in a remote learning environment – Examines accessibility strategies and tools for supporting students with disabilities in online settings.
- Deliver engaging and accessible virtual events with Microsoft Teams – Outlines accessibility considerations and how to address them when delivering virtual events using Teams.
Multimedia Accessibility
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
- Creating Accessible Videos – Covers strategies for making accessible video content, including captioning and audio descriptions.
WebAIM
WebAIM is a non-profit organization focused on accessibility, and offers fee-based, self-paced document and web accessibility training.
- Captions, Transcripts, and Audio Descriptions – Covers multimedia accessibility techniques and standards.
Resources for Online Learning Environments
Tutorials
Review these short, how-to videos to quickly address accessibility in your digital content:
- Building accessible Ultra content: Organize your content with headings, clear structure, alternative text for images or diagrams, and colors using Blackboard’s built-in text editor.
- Using Ally to fix common issues: Resolve the most frequent file errors and improve your course accessibility score.
LinkedIn Learning
UToledo provides organizational access to LinkedIn Learning for all faculty and staff. Build your accessibility knowledge and skills while earning a completion certificate you can display on your LinkedIn profile by completing any of these suggested courses and learning paths:
- Build for Digital Accessibility – Guides learners through building accessible digital products and services from the ground up.
- Understanding Digital Accessibility – Provides foundational awareness of digital accessibility concepts, laws, and design principles.
- Designing for Digital Accessibility in Online Learning – Focuses on creating accessible e-learning content and environments.