Digital Accessibility Training and Tools
Training
All Staff Training
A Digital Accessibility Course is available and required for all staff to complete modules most relevant to their work. Modules include:
- Document accessibility
- Form and survey accessibility
- Web content accessibility
- Presentation and slide accessibility
- Spreadsheet accessibility
- PDF accessibility
- Email accessibility
- Event and meeting accessibility
- Multimedia accessibility
- Social media accessibility
It is mandatory that staff training is completed before December 31, 2025.
All Faculty Training
The Office of Digital Education continues to provide training and tools to support faculty updating their Canvas courses.
Tools
Web
- SiteImprove: Available to web ambassadors and editors
Color Contrast
Documents
- : Add-on for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides
- : Built-in accessibility checker for Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Acrobat Pro
Complex Images (graphs, cartoons, chemical elements, etc.)
U-M GPT
Canvas
Video