Creating accessible digital content is essential for ensuring everyone can engage fully with your communications and resources. This page brings together a comprehensive collection of WebAIM accessibility tutorials and resources, empowering you to make your documents, presentations, and online materials more inclusive. Whether you are working with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, or digital media, these guides offer practical tips and best practices to help you remove barriers and provide equal opportunities for all users.
Accessible Content Reference Cards provide quick tips and tricks creating better accessibility for the following:
- Social Media
- Microsoft Word
- Email/Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Adobe Acrobat Pro
- Microsoft Excel
- Print Material
WebAIM Articles provide additional information on creating accessible Word Documents, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations. These tutorials are provided and are copyrighted © 1999-2017 by WebAIM.org (Web Accessibility in Mind).
The following WebAIM articles outline how to make your files more accessible on the web
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Microsoft Word: Microsoft Word is currently the most widely-used word processor on the market. Because it is so common, the .doc format has become the de facto format for text documents. MS Word is often used to create PDF and HTML files for websites. Despite some gains in recent years, creating accessible web content with Word is NOT a straightforward process.
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PDF: When people mention "accessible" PDF files, they usually are referring to "tagged" PDF files, even though there is more to an accessible PDF than tags. PDF tags provide a hidden structured, textual representation of the PDF content that is presented to screen readers. They exist for accessibility purposes only and have no visible effect on the PDF file.
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PowerPoint: Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most popular tools for creating slide show presentations. It is often used to organize thoughts for a meeting or lesson, to present key points in a live presentation, or to create handouts.
Microsoft has a series of easy-to-follow tutorials, please see the links below:
- Read & Write – The University has purchased an institution-wide licence for Read & Write software which supports reading, writing, and research by making documents and files more accessible. The software is free to all UWindsor employees and students. Follow this link to learn how to access Read & Write.
- UWindsor Video Tutorial on adding and editing subtitles in Microsoft Streams.
- UWindsor Video Tutorial on automatic captioning YouTube videos.