Student Guide to Creating Accessible Materials

Accessibility

This article will help students create accessible documents, emails, and social media.

Make your content accessible to everyone. Use these quick tips to ensure your assignments, presentations, emails, and social media posts are fully inclusive and impacting

For All Content

Before sharing your content, ask yourself:

  1. Have I used headings and structure?

  1. Are images described with alt text?

  1. Do all my videos have captions?

  1. Is my color contrast strong enough?

  1. Are my links descriptive? (“Read about climate change” instead of “Click here”)

  1. Is my content readable and clear?

  1. For my documents, did I pass the accessibility checker?

Accessible

Google Documents (Docs, Slides, Forms)

Emails

Social Media Posts

Microsoft Documents

Word and PowerPoint  

 

 

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