Module 2. Designing Accessible Content

As a best practice, offer content as a Canvas page, rather than uploading content as attached files. Here are some tips to make any files you attach to your course accessible for students.

Microsoft Word Accessibility

Make your Microsoft Word documents more accessible to address the following:

Heading Styles
Hyperlinks
Images/Alternative Text
Tables

Microsoft PowerPoint Accessibility

Make your Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations more accessible to address the following:

Heading Styles
Hyperlinks
Images/Alternative Text
Tables
Color Contrast
Reading Order
Slide Layouts

PDF Accessibility

Adobe PDF icon PDF documents are notoriously difficult to make accessible, especially when compared to the Microsoft Office suite of applications (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.). The Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE) highly encourages instructors to stray away from using PDF documents unless absolutely necessary.

Make your PDF documents more accessible to address the following:

Convert Word to PDF
Scanned Documents/OCR
PDF Properties
Objects/Tagging
Reading Order
Images/Alternative Text
Tables

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