Faculty Resources for Digital Accessibility
What is Digital Accessibility?
Digital accessibility happens when a person can easily navigate and understand the content of a website, application, electronic document, or media file. It helps a wide range of individuals, including those who may have hearing, movement, sight, or cognitive needs.
Why is Accessibility Important?
As an academic institution, we have a moral and legal obligation to make our content accessible to our community members. It is also the law. Morally, it's the right thing to do and accessibility aligns directly with our University's mission to strengthen lives for purpose, service, and leadership.
Who is Responsible?
We are all responsible. As the professor of a class, all of the content that you
create or share with students or the public must be accessible. Refer to Pepperdine
University's accessibility policy.
Instructor Resources
Is your course syllabus accessible?
Are you using headings, tables, and images properly in your syllabus document? Learn how to create or check your Word or PDF syllabus for accessibility.
Are your videos accessible?
Do you have captions and a transcript of your videos? Do the outside videos you select meet accessibility requirements?
Are your course sites accessible?
Learn how to use the built-in accessibility checker within the rich text editor of your Courses class site to fix common HTML or image issues.
Microsoft Office Accessibility
Learn the fundamentals of making your Microsoft Office Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents accessible.
Adobe Acrobat PDF Accessibility
Check your PDFs for accessibility issues with the Adobe Acrobat Pro accessibility checker.
Google Doc Accessibility
Learn how to make your Google Workspace documents(Docs, Slides, or Sheets) accessible.
Additional Training
- Online Course Accessibility Training for Faculty
- Introduction to Web Accessibility (from WebAIM)
- Creating Accessible Content (from Portland Community College)