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The university has a variety of tools that can be leveraged to help you assess your content, including:

  • Ally in Canvas
    • Ally works in Canvas to test the accessibility of courses and the content inside of them. Ally allows instructors to see how accessible the content is and learn how to remediate it if there are issues. As course content improves, a meter tracks progress and provides guidance on overall quality.
  • PREP PDF remediation software
    • PREP helps you make better PDFs by setting up documents with accessible structure and styles that provide basic accessibility when exporting. More complex PDFs with data, tables, or scans may need further remediation.
  • Grackle accessibility tools for Google Suite
  • Microsoft Accessibility Tools

Virginia Tech Accessibility Training Options

Making your Digital Content Accessible: Where should you start?

Whether you’re creating course materials, developing websites, or preparing presentations, it’s important for you to feel empowered and supported in making content accessible to everyone. This page offers links to training that will help you build the skills you will need to update your content for accessibility, and to gain the knowledge that will make it easier to build new content that is fully accessible from the start.

Getting Started: Quick wins for accessibility

Start with these questions:

  • Could your PDF documents work better as web pages?
  • Have you explored the built-in accessibility checkers in your tools?
  • Are all your images correctly labeled?

 

Choose your learning path

I need quick help with…

 

I want to dive deeper into…

Ready to expand your accessibility knowledge? Our intermediate to advanced courses cover:

Creating Accessible Documents:
Documents give text and images as information and can be distributed electronically.
Design Accessible Presentations:
Presentations are a collection of slides for visual presentation.
Mastering PDF Accessibility:

PDF files provide an electronic image of text and graphics that are readable and consistently displayed across different software, hardware, and operation systems.

Deliver Accessible Videos:

Videos are recordings of moving visual images with or without audio.

Website Accessibility Fundamentals:

For website managers:
Website managers maintain content on webpages and are content-focused.

For website and mobile application developers:
Web developers provide content creation, structure, and coding.

Universal Design for Learning Principle

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing learning experiences that are accessible and inclusive for all learners.

I'm ready to become an expert…

Take your skills to the next level with our comprehensive training tracks:

Pro Tip: Start with our self-paced Accessibility Champion Pathway, made up of essential workshops on:

 

Available tools and resources

Make accessibility easier with these built-in tools:

 

Need more help?

We're here to support your accessibility journey:

How to Get Started
Tools and Training
Frequently Asked Questions

Additional Resources

Schedule an online consultation with a TLOS accessibility professional.

Digital Accessibility under Title II