Resources for Making Instructional Materials ADA / Section 508 Compliant
Accessibility cheatsheets from the National Center on Disability and Access to Education
Links to an external site.: These guides provide step-by-step instructions for common tasks like making documents in Microsoft Word accessible, converting those documents to PDFs, finding captioned YouTube videos, and adding captions to your own videos.
These cheatsheets use annotated screenshots to help you visualize each step, and they also come in a printable PDF format. Some include how-to videos as well. Bookmark this page!
Try a Few Tools
- Do you have enough contrast between your background and font color? Check it with the WebAim Color Contrast Checker Links to an external site.
- Check your work with WAVE! Review online content for accessibility issues using the WAVE: Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool Links to an external site.. You can also install a WAVE Chrome extension Links to an external site. to use directly from your browser.
- New tool! Tota11y: an accessibility visualization toolkit Links to an external site. from Khan Academy