Creating Accessible Digital Content
Digital accessibility is designing digital products and services so they can be used by everyone, including individuals with disabilities. By making content accessible, you benefit all users. Below are step-by-step tutorials that will help you through creating accessible documents, presentations, multimedia, and more.
Tutorials and Guides
Microsoft Word Documents
Do you use Google Docs? Download your document to Word to follow the steps in the video.
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
Do you use Google Slides? Download your document to PowerPoint to follow the steps in the video.
Web Accessibility
All approved editors of the Geneseo website must complete the to edit content. Examples of web accessibility best practices in WordPress include the following:
- Ensuring that all documents added to the website are accessible
To learn more, explore .
Use SharePoint? Follow these .
Video and Audio
Brightspace
YouTube captioning
will automatically be published on videos but may not appear instantly. Review your captions to fix any errors.
Panopto
Any video or audio files you upload to Panopto will have machine-generated captioning applied. when done to ensure the captions are accurate and correct any mistakes.
Accessibility Tips by Role
For Faculty
To ensure that all digital course content complies with the new Title II rule, Geneseo announces the Strive for 85 campaign. All Brightspace courses must have an Ally accessibility score of 85% or above to be accessible to students, which you can achieve by following these steps:
- Check your course’s accessibility score on your course home page in Brightspace.
- Make documents accessible from the start using , and pass the built-in accessibility checker before sharing. Avoid uploading PDFs as they take time to make accessible.
- Have scanned pages of readings, or notes containing math equations? for remediation or recreate them in Word.
- Have journal articles? Link to the article source instead of uploading the PDF. For books, from Milne Library.
- with Digital Accessibility Analyst, Anjali Shiyamsaran.
- 30-day where to get started checklist!
For Staff
- Avoid sharing documents in PDF format as PDFs are labor-intensive to make accessible.
- 30-day where to get started checklist!
For Students
More Accessibility Resources
- Join the (open to everyone on campus) for more accessibility training.
- Find tutorials and tips on
- Visit the Milne Library’s
- (free to SUNY students, faculty, staff)
- Convert documents to accessible formats using