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Creating Accessible Documents

Creating accessible digital content is essential for ensuring everyone can engage fully with your communications and resources. This page brings together a comprehensive collection of WebAIM accessibility tutorials and resources, empowering you to make your documents, presentations, and online materials more inclusive. Whether you are working with Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDFs, or digital media, these guides offer practical tips and best practices to help you remove barriers and provide equal opportunities for all users. 

Accessible Content Reference Cards provide quick tips and tricks creating better accessibility for the following:

  • Social Media
  • Microsoft Word
  • Email/Outlook
  • Microsoft PowerPoint
  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Print Material

WebAIM Articles provide additional information on creating accessible Word Documents, PDFs and PowerPoint presentations. These tutorials are provided and are copyrighted © 1999-2017 by WebAIM.org (Web Accessibility in Mind).

  • Read & Write – The University has purchased an institution-wide licence for Read & Write software which supports reading, writing, and research by making documents and files more accessible. The software is free to all UWindsor employees and students. Follow this link to learn how to access Read & Write.
  • EquatIO - The University has purchased an institution-wide licence for EquatIO. This software makes it easier to create equations, science symbols, chemical formulas, or other mathematical expressions digitally. It is free to all UWindsor employees and students. Follow this link to learn how to access EquatIO.
  • UWindsor Video Tutorial on adding and editing subtitles in Microsoft Streams.
  • UWindsor Video Tutorial on automatic captioning YouTube videos.