Tools

This guide includes tips and insights from podcast hosts on the best ways to achieve accessibility in podcasts. Tips include providing transcripts and turning podcasts into a video format.

This Vox Media website provides a checklist for making content accessible. This checklist is intended "... to help build accessibility into your process no matter your role or stage in a project." Accessibility guidelines are included for designers, engineers, project managers, quality assurance, and editorial portions of a project. Each provided...

Courtesy of Queen's University, located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Accessibility Hub invites users to be an "Access Ally." Some of the materials are specific to the campus, with accessibility tools for faculty, students, and visitors. However, the How-to Info tab contains a bevy of general tools. Here, readers will find resources for designing...

This video, provided by the Described and Captioned Media Program, is the third in a four-part series titled Accessible Learning Across the Lifespan. The series is dedicated to guiding instructional, website, and program designers in proactively creating accessible learning and work environments for individuals with disabilities. During the video,...

Georgia Tech's Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation (CIDI) focuses on "the promotion of technological innovation and development of user-centered research, products, and services for individuals with disabilities." On this website, readers can browse CIDI's research portfolio, learn about upcoming trainings, and check out their full service ...

This tip sheet from the National Center for Accessible Media provides guidelines for creating accessible PDFs in both the source document and Adobe Acrobat. It covers topics like creating document structure, exporting, running accessibility checks, and images and alt text. 

This tip sheet, provided by the WGBH Educational Foundation, includes guidance on creating accessible presentations. Tips are given for before, during, and after the presentation. The following are a few examples of the included tips: Arrange for live captions. Use good color contrast and large fonts in designing the slides, Speak...

This webinar, made available by Internet Scout Research Group, features Rachel Bower and Luis Perez discussing how institutions can increase the accessibility of high quality materials for learners with disabilities. The presentation is geared towards all educators in order to make designing for accessibility easy to understand and implement...

This video from DO-IT explains why and how to create electronic documents that are accessible to all users. Examples of inaccessible documents, assistive technologies that need to be considered to make documents accessible, solutions for making documents accessible, and other best practices are covered. The video recording runs 3:54 minutes in...

This website includes guidelines for inclusive game design. This straightforward reference provides game design suggestions ranging from Basic (easy to implement, wide reaching and applies to almost all game mechanics), to Intermediate (requires some planning and effort), to Advanced (complex adaptations for profound impairments and specific niche...