Syllabi Accessibility

Your students may use mobile phones, tablets, or assistive technology, such as screen readers or magnifiers, to access their course work. It’s important to create class materials that all of your students can access. This online training series through Atomic Learning demonstrates how to enhance the accessibility of your syllabus--from adding alt text and tags to running the accessibility check or Make Accessible Action.

Watch the entire Atomic series, or select a topic from the list below:

A. Completed Project Examples

• What you will learn in this training
• Accessible Word and PDF examples

B. Using Proper Formatting (Word 2013)

• Creating a title and subtitle
• Creating headings
• Adding an accessible table

C. Adding Alternate (Alt) Text (Word 2013)

• Adding alt text to an image
• Adding captions to charts or graphs
• Adding ScreenTips to hyperlinks

D. Converting to PDF from Word 2013

• Running an accessibility check in Word 2013
• Saving as an accessible PDF file
• Converting to PDF and filing accessibility issues with one button

E. Ensuring PDF Accessibility (Adobe Acrobat XI Pro)

• Creating an accessibility report
• Improving accessibility with the Make Accessible Action
• Setting document language
• Adding tags to a PDF
• Using the Touch Up Reading Order tool
• Adding alt text to images
• Adding alt text to links
• Changing tags
• Using the Table Editor
• Understanding accessibility-friendly security