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)

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.