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More info about this important topic will be available later. For now, please see these initial recommendations.
As mentioned earlier on this site, our team believes that starting with Canvas content is a great way to develop foundational knowledge of accessibility issues that will later inform your work on other mediums such as digital documents. Improving Canvas site accessibility is also is a tremendous and immediate contribution to our students, and to meeting the iSchool's and University of Washington's goals.
Reviewing your course content in relation to your student learning outcomes, ask yourself if an inaccessible document that is creating learning barriers for some is necessary. If not, delete it.
Does your course contain poor quality scans of book pages or other reading resources that were uploaded to Canvas (maybe even by another instructor at one point) while there is an online version available through UW Libraries or another source? Make searching for alternative versions of poor-scoring files (that are essential for your course student learning outcomes) your very first step in addressing files. Contact a UW librarian if needed.
Before thinking about getting access to licenses for PDF remediation tools and spending hours in that medium (a horrible one in terms of accessibility), solutions available in some new tools the University has purchased like UDOIT consist of extracting PDF content and recreating it in more accessible file formats such as MS Word or Canvas pages. More coming....