Accessibility How-Tos and Advice

One of the best ways to make an institution welcoming and inclusive is to use universal design to make offerings accessible from the beginning. Below are various resources on how to make campus accessible.

• Equal Access: Universal Design of Your ADVANCE Project
  A checklist for making your projects welcoming and accessible.

• 30 Web Accessibility Tips
  Creating or deploying web-based resources that are fully accessible to all users.

• Discover A Guide to Convening an Inclusive Hybrid Meeting Space
  Learn more about creating more accessible spaces with this report created from the Making Space for Disability Equity Work Group Spring 2023.
• Accessibility and Universal Design of Online Meetings
  Learn tips to prepare for a fully accessible online meeting.

• Equal Access: Universal Design of Engineering Departments
  Guidelines on creating an accessible engineering department using universal design.

• Making Engineering More Accessible to Faculty with Disabilities
  A webinar discussing ways to systematically review and improve facilities, technology, events, and services to make them more accessible and inclusive to faculty members with disabilities, which promotes an inclusive campus culture, reduces the need for accommodations, and levels the playing field.

• Leading Practices for Improving Accessibility and Inclusion in Field, Laboratory, and Computational Science – A Conversation Series
  Five webinar-style conversations featuring leading experts on accessibility and disability inclusion recorded between December 2021 and April 2022.

• Why is Data on Disability so Hard to Collect and Understand?
  This paper, written by leaders of AccessComputing, explores why data on disability is so hard to collect and offers best practices for collecting demographic data related to disability. 

• Creating Accessible Documents
  Regardless of whether documents are created in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, or another format, there are right and wrong ways to create documents in order to ensure people with disabilities can access them.

• Making Videos Accessible
  Learn what to consider when creating a video to make it accessible to all viewers, from pre-production techniques to the provision of captioning and audio description.

• Recruiting and Retaining Employees with Disabilities
  Speakers share the benefits of employing individuals with disabilities and steps that can be taken to recruit and retain them.

• Working with Faculty to Promote Access
  A free course that offers how to expand your current training templates to include expectations regarding accessibility, as well as ways to provide support to presenters and moderators before and during an event to help them actively promote an accessible training environment.

• Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
  A checklist to maximize the learning of all students.

• Teamwork: Making IT Accessible at the University of Washington and Statewide
  This video highlights efforts at the University of Washington and other state schools regarding the procurement, development, and use of accessible IT.