Accessibility Basics – Accessibility at the UW

Techniques, guidance, and checklists provide steps and strategies to make your websites, documents, posts, and videos accessible.

What You Can Do Now

Steps that faculty and staff can take now to prepare for making digital content accessible.

Learn technological and pedagogical considerations to make accessible online and hybrid courses.

Use this accessibility checklist for HTML, Word, PDF, or other document formats.

Make meetings accessible with captions, planning, and other practical strategies.

Add alt text and captions to make social media posts accessible.

Make videos accessible with captions, a transcript, audio descriptions, and an accessible media player.

Follow steps to create an accessible website including helpful tools, resources, and services.