Build Accessible Online Content

Self-Enroll in our Online Accessibility Course

This DVC self-paced course will help you to navigate all things accessibility in design. Whether you are teaching or building resources to share campus-wide, accessibility is a legal requirement (ADA Section 508) and we must begin to make accessibility a part of our process.

This course will walk you step-by-step through the requirements and best practices as well as give you tips and tricks to make accessibility manageable. If you are faculty, you are able to collect 4 hours of flex credit for completing the full course! Or, just enroll and let it live on your dashboard so you can return to it whenever you need more support!

An Accessibility Checklist

Each page in your course has the ability to be fully accessible, and; therefore, more equitable. The online accessibility checklist below will help you evaluate where your course materials are accessible and where you may need additional work and support. While it may look a bit overwhelming or intimidating, bookmark this as a page to return to later on. Once you start building course content, you will want to ensure you have allowed access for all students to enter your learning community. We will refer back to this chart from time to time, so just get an introduction to it now.


Accessibility Type	Resources
Canvas images are given alternative text links are descriptive lists/bullets appropriate headings text color and color contrast tables	Alt-text to all my images Descriptive links Lists in Canvas Heading styles in Canvas Sufficient color contrast Header cells and captions on my tables
Video equal access to captions accurate captions ensuring punctuation/grammar	YouTube Captioning Canvas Studio Captioning
Word Docs tables headings (styles) lists/bullets links images	Microsoft guide: "Make your Word documents accessible to people with disabilities" Self-enroll in our DVC Online Accessibility course for how-tos, guides, and more.
PDFs tags reading order images bookmarks	Consider rebuilding the document as a Canvas page (most accessible & highly recommended). Go back to the original format (Word, PPT, etc.) and review accessibility there. Self-enroll in our DVC Online Accessibility course for how-tos, guides, and more. Reviewing reading order Adding bookmarks to a PDF Making PDFs accessible to all
PowerPoint & Google Slides reading order images links tables and charts color contrast	Microsoft guide "Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities" Accessibility in Google Slides Self-enroll in our DVC Online Accessibility course for how-tos, guides, and more.
Excel charts and graphs all sheet tabs have unique names specify column header info	Accessibility in Excel Create Accessible Spreadsheets
Audio accurate transcripts	Self-enroll in our DVC Online Accessibility course for how-tos, guides, and more. Create Accessible Captions and Transcripts

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