Accessibility information
- Accessible Technology at the UW
- WA State Policy Statement
- Minimum level of compliance for accessibility with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Videos
See if you qualify for the UW Free Captioning Project here.
MS Office Documents
Microsoft Office provides and accessibility checker for Office documents (.docx, pptx, .xlsx).
UW has prepared several resources to help you writing accessible documents:
Adobe Acrobat Pro provides an accessibility checker for PDF documents. Learn more about it here.
UW Accessibility has also prepared some guidelines:
- Exporting accessible PDF from a Word document
- Fixing PDF documents for accessibility
- Accessible PDF from scanned documents
- UW Document Conversion Service (free)
Webpages
Webpages can be checked with the WAVE tool. To use WAVE, click here and enter the URL for the webpage you want to check.