Accessibility for Online Instruction

These standards are evolving, and will be provided in more detail later. For the time being, focus on these rules of thumb:

Digital Guidelines

• Avoid handwritten documents
• Find digital versions of photocopied documents, or recreate them
• Use Microsoft products to produce new content for your class when possible
• Use your Microsoft accessibility tools when creating content (styles sheets, bullet/numbers, checker)
• Use Sans Serif Fonts
• Remember: PDF and .HTM files are easier for your students to open online
• Avoid unnecessary bells and whistles (and color)
• Avoid unnecessary tables
• Avoid unnecessary visual and organizational complexity
• Provide alternate text (alt text) for all images that convey meaning
• Name your hyperlinks
• Caption your video or find video that is already captioned