Digital accessibility is essential to ensuring every member of our community can fully engage with the information we share. Here you’ll find training materials, job aids, templates and curated resources designed to help you build accessible documents, media and digital communications across UW Facilities.
Training
Explore these training links to deepen your understanding of digital accessibility. Each resource offers practical guidance and skills you can apply immediately to your work.
Intro to Digital accessibility / UW Facilities (link tk)
A custom-made course for UW Facilities staff, accessible within the Bridge LMS. Covers the fundamentals of creating accessible documents, and what we need to do as a department to be within compliance with federal laws.
An authoritative source on designing for accessibility. UW has partnered with this vendor and all UW staff have free access. You must create an account in order to access the trainings. We recommend starting with the UWF internal course and then use Deque's menu of trainings when more advanced skills are required.
More training options can be found on this webpage, curated by UW-IT.
Job aids and templates
Quick reference guides:
UWF Job Aid: A checklist for building digitally accessible documents from the start, built specifically for UWF staff.
UW-IT Quick Cards: One-page guides to make documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and emails more accessible to all.
Templates:
UW Marketing & Communications maintains a set of templates that comply with accessibility best practices as well as brand requirements. Use these to save time while ensuring your content meets accessibility standards from the outset:
For more help, see the UWF Communications page on templates.
Other resources
UW-IT Digital Accessibility website: Find more resources, training, and information here.
UW Closed Captioning services: UW's Accessible Technology Services (ATS) will caption a limited number of UW videos without charge through a service supported by UW-IT. They also partner with third-party vendors for more extensive needs.
NVDA Screen Reader: A free-to-use screen reader. Good for users who need assistive technology and for document creators who need to check the accessibility of their content.
Deque Color Contrast Analyzer: A free-to-use color contrast analyzer for determining color contrast ratios. Particularly useful if the software you are working within does not have a built in color contrast checker.
PAC PDF Accessibility Checker: The free PAC PDF Accessibility Checker is a downloadable software that helps you assess your PDF documents.
Get help
Creating accessible documents is a process and can be a challenge. If you have questions or concerns, we are here to help support you.
For questions about content, and particularly about removing or archiving documents, contact the UWF Communications team.
For questions about the Intro to Digital Accessibility online training, contact the Training Center.