Media

Such as videos, audios, motion, images, icons, animations, PDFs.

Microsoft

Powerpoint

Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities

This topic gives you step-by-step instructions and best practices for making your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities. When your slides are accessible, you unlock your content to everyone and people with differing abilities can read and use your slides.

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PDF

Curated PDF accessibility guidelines

Curated accessibility guidelines for PDF

Adobe

PDF

Create and verify PDF accessibility, Acrobat Pro

Acrobat tools make it easy to create accessible PDFs and check the accessibility of existing PDFs.

W3C

EPUB

EPUB Accessibility

This document specifies content conformance requirements for verifying the accessibility of EPUB Publications. It also specifies accessibility metadata requirements for the discoverability of EPUB Publications.

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PDF

Tips for PDF Accessibility

Here are some guidelines to help in the review and remediation of existing documents, along with guidance for ensuring accessibility of PDFs as they are created.

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Microsoft Word

Word Accessibility

This page is an overview of creating accessible documents using Microsoft Word. Accessible documents allow information to be readily available for assistive technology.

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PDF

PDF Accessibility

This page is an overview of creating accessible PDF documents using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

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PDF

Tips and techniques for creating accessible infographics in PDFs

This post addresses the five areas that most commonly go wrong in the creation of accessible infographics for publication in PDFs.

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Infographics

Creating an Accessible Infographic

Infographics on the web have skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years for many great reasons. Often, they are able to quickly convey complex bits of information and show key relationships between data sets. For sighted users, representing data as an infographic actually improves accessibility.

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Infographics

Accessible Infographics

An infographic is a visual representation of complex data that allows users to interact with the content.

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PDF

Create and verify PDF accessibility, Acrobat Pro

Acrobat tools make it easy to create accessible PDFs and check the accessibility of existing PDFs. You can create PDFs to meet common accessibility standards.

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EPUB

Ace, by DAISY

Ace, the Accessibility Checker for EPUB, is a tool developed by the DAISY Consortium to assist with the evaluation of accessibility features of EPUB publications.

W3C

Audio & Video

Making Audio and Video Media Accessible

Accessible audio and video is essential for people with disabilities, and benefits organizations. Depending on the content of your media, it might need captions/subtitles (a text version of the audio that is shown synchronized in the media player), a transcript (a separate text version of the audio), audio description of visual information (usually an additional audio stream that describes important visual content), or other accessibility functionality/features.

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PDF

Accessible PDF: A Glossary of Terms

PDF Accessibility Terms Defined

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Powerpoint

WebAIM: PowerPoint Accessibility

Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most popular tools for creating slide show presentations. It is often used to organize thoughts for a meeting or lesson, to present key points in a live presentation, and even to create handouts. This article outlines how to can make PowerPoint files more accessible on the web.

CSS Tricks

Motion

Accessible Web Animation

The WCAG on Animation Explained.

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Motion

Accessibility and Motion

How to design the delightful user experience you want for your sighted / non-motion sensitive users, without triggering distraction, nausea and migraines in the rest of us.

W3C

Motion

WCAG Motion Guidelines

Understanding the success criteria for Pause, Stop and Hide.

Access Ability

Icons & SVGs

Making Icons More Accessible to Screen Readers

Kalamuna as a mission-focused organization did a guide for you to build and create more accessible icons to screen readers.

Designing for Accessibility

Icons & SVGs

Accessible SVGs: Inclusiveness Beyond Patterns

We are fortunate to have robust patterns to choose from when optimizing accessibility in SVGs — but most people stop there, focusing on code compliance and not actual users and their needs.