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Checking Accessibility in Canvas
An overview of Highline's Canvas accessibility checking tools, including the Ally Course Accessibility Report add-on.
Making Canva Projects Accessible
If you are using Canva to create flyers, newsletters, or other documents that will be distributed electronically, it's important to make sure they are accessible so that everyone who receives them can read them. Historically, this has been difficult or impossible to do well, but Canva has recently introduced some very useful accessibility tools.
Alt Text Tips From A Visually Impaired Person
If you've ever struggled with writing alt text for images, especially for photos that seem difficult to describe, here are six excellent tips from a visually impaired person.
Are Emojis Accessible?
When I do accessibility checks for emails in which I include emojis, those emojis are never flagged as being an issue. Like, it doesn't prompt me to include alt-text or anything. So are emojis accessible?
Checking Accessibility in Adobe Acrobat DC
Adobe Acrobat DC has a built-in accessibility checker to help you make sure the PDFs you have created or get from others meet accessibility guidelines. While no automated checker will catch everything, this is a simple and convenient way to find and fix some of the most common issues with PDFs.
Saving an accessible PDF from Word
Once you have an accessible document set up in Word, it's time to make the PDF! While this seems simple enough, it's still important to do it the correct way, or the final PDF may lose all of that accessibility information.
Checking accessibility in Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word has a built-in accessibility checker to help you make sure the documents you create meet accessibility guidelines. While no automated checker will catch everything, this is a simple and convenient way to keep [...]
Don’t use ‘Print to PDF’
If you're creating a document that needs to be distributed as a PDF, when it comes time to create the PDF, the first rule is very simple: do not use a 'Print to PDF' option!
Is a PDF really necessary?
PDFs often introduce barriers to assistive technology users. While it's certainly possible to create accessible PDFs, it's also worth considering whether the document you're working on really needs to be distributed as a PDF.
Thinking about alt text by way of Dungeons and Dragons
If you're struggling with how to think about writing alt text for images (including graphs, charts, equations, and so on), get a little bit geeky and think like a Dungeons and Dragons game master!