Accessibility Resources

This guide includes accessibility tips and tools for making your everyday work (emails, documents, slides, websites, online meetings) more accessible.
Source: ASERL

Source: Old Dominion University

Source: University of Washington

Section508.gov provides guidance to Federal agency staff who play a role in IT accessibility. The site addresses several key topics, including Program Management, Roles and Responsibilities, Procurement, Tools & Training, and Policy Compliance.
Source: U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP)

The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center is dedicated to empowering people with disabilities through technology and education. It promotes awareness and accessibility—in both the classroom and the workplace—to maximize the potential of individuals with disabilities and make our communities more vibrant, diverse, and inclusive.
Source: University of Washington

Develops standards and support materials to help you understand and implement accessibility.
Source: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The WebAIM mission is to expand "the potential of the web for people with disabilities by empowering individuals and organizations to create accessible content" by providing the knowledge, technical skills, tools, organizational leadership strategies, and vision to empower organizations in making their content accessible to people with disabilities.
Source: Utah State University

This guide was created to assist CUNY Librarians, faculty, staff & OER developers create accessible content and accessible Open Educational Resources (OER).
Source: CUNY Library Services

Source: University of Washington

Source: University of Washington

Source: University of Washington

Source: WebAIM

Source: University of Washington

Source: Wichita State University

Source: University of Washington

Source: University of Washington

Source: UC Systemwide Talent Management (YouTube)
This brief video illustrates some of the ways in which a screen reader could engage with an accessible PDF.

Source: LinkedIn Learning (UofM login required)
4h 27m, Advanced, Released 7/2/2020

Source: LinkedIn Learning (UofM login required)
5h 33m, Intermediate, Released 12/17/2021

Source: Jon (YouTube)
This series of videos shows you how the fundamental steps necessary to take a poorly formatted Word document and eventually make it an ISO 14289 compliant tagged PDF.

Source: MSFTEnable (YouTube)
This PDF Accessibility training series was provided to Microsoft employees on creating accessible PDF documents.

Source: University of Colorado Boulder Office of Information Technology

Guidelines and Best Practices for Captioning Educational Video
Source: Described and Captioned Media Program

ASERL’s Accessibility Interest Group strives to support the accessibility work that is going on in all ASERL libraries and universities through participation in the Library Accessibility Alliance, the provision of education and training resources and fostering a network of colleagues who share similar interests and needs.
Source: ASERL

List of accessibility policies at the library and university level for institutions that are members of ASERL.
Source: ASERL

Though geared towards public librarians, this LibGuide has useful information for librarians generally on health topics related to mental health.
Source: National Library of Medicine

The pages and resources throughout this guide are intended to support libraries and library workers in their efforts to provide a welcoming and inclusive library experience for all members of their communities.
Source: Division of Library Development, Connecticut State Library

Source: Library Accessibility Alliance