UMass Boston

The University offers resources to help the community learn and produce accessible digital content and course materials. 

General Accessibility

Specific recommended videos/courses by areas

• What is Accessibility? (short video)
• Accessible Standards (WCAG), (short video)
• Accessibility for Managers and Non-designers , (full course)
• Universal Principles of Design , (full course)
• Inclusive Design , (full course)

PDFs

• Creating Accessible PDFs, (full course)
• Advanced Accessible PDFs, (full course)
• Accessible PDFs , (full course)

Images

• Optimizing Images for the Web , (short video)
• Why Alt Text is Essential for Images on a Website , (short video)

Videos

• Captioning Video for Web and Social Media , (full course)

Websites

• Six Tips for Improving Website Accessibility, (short video)

• We've provided a fully Accessible UMass Boston Digital Letterhead in Word to start you and the clients you serve in the right direction when it comes to creating new accessible documents. This uses the UMass Boston letterhead style which is fully editable for colleges, departments, institutions or units. Feel free to use or share with your clients. Please 'Save As' PDF from Word before posting to the web.

Microsoft 365 Resources

• Microsoft Answer Desk

General

• Microsoft 365 Accessibility Support

Word

• Making Word Docs Accessible (article)
• Accessible Word (checklist)

Excel

• Making Excel Accessible (article)
• Accessible Excel(checklist)

PowerPoint

• Accessible Presentation (article)
• Accessible Presentation (checklist)

Teams

• Accessible Teams (article)

Email

• Accessible Email/Outlook (article)
• Accessible Email (checklist)

Viseo

• Accessible Viseo (article)

Industry Resources

• Adobe Acrobat
• Google
• Zoom
• Canvas
• Slack
  
  

Department of Education

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office For Civil Rights has a video series covering a range of topics.