This course provides a comfortable intro to accessible document design. Learn and apply five key actions that make content more accessible to people with disabilities and better for all.

Performance Objectives: Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Understand key universal design principles.

• Make content more accessible to people using screen readers, captioning tools, or other accessibility and language access tools.

• Understand the feedback from accessibility checker tools. Respond to prompts with actions that create more inclusive, efficient user experiences.

• Submit documents to agency publications teams with basic accessibility in place and use agency templates well.

We will use MS Word in this course. Adobe Acrobat is helpful, but NOT required.

Who should take this course?

People who want clear, easy direction and active practice creating accessible documents in common formats.

This course supports WA OCIO Policy #188 and WA Executive Order 23-02. Pair this course with Plain Language Writing and Design (01-03-EW-50).

We draw on direction from W3’s Web Accessibility Initiative and PDF/UA standards