Resources

A collection of strategies and selling points to help you encourage and advocate for accessibility in your place of work, including useful scripts you can use as starting points.

Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. These principles are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites and applications a broad approach to inclusive design.

Amy Albin (she/her), a member of Vispero’s Human Resources team, an industrial/organizational psychologist and a blind JAWS user, will present reasons for making your software offerings accessible to users with and without disabilities.

Quick Response (QR) codes are graphics that can be scanned to direct people online to complete an action or find content. This blog post explores considerations and provides guidance for creating accessible experiences with QR codes.

Learn about creating accessible PowerPoint presentations that ensure information is accessible to individuals of all abilities

This presentation explores the key principles, techniques, and tools needed to make your documents accessible to all.

The presentation covers accessibility definitions, standards, and guidelines and then shares practical tips and examples to help make presentation slide decks and presentations more accessible.

To check and fix PDF accessibility issues, you’ll need certain knowledge and tools. A common software is Adobe Acrobat Pro, which has all the tools needed to make a PDF accessible. In this article, we’ll review the tools and steps you can take with Adobe Acrobat Pro to check and fix PDF accessibility issues.

PDFs are harder to find, use, and maintain. More importantly, unless created with sufficient care PDFs can often be bad for accessibility and rarely comply with open standards.

A guide to automated and manual checks for Word and PowerPoint. 

In this article, you’ll get a brief overview of what PDF accessibility is and why it’s so important. We’ll also provide you with an easy, eight-step checklist that you can use to help ensure your PDFs are fully accessible.

A collection of resources for mobile accessibility.

This article reviews how to add captions to YouTube videos plus other helpful caption information including: why captions are important according to the numbers, options for adding captions to YouTube videos, tips for writing good captions, and when to consider using a 3rd party captioning service.

Discover the ADA standards for video captions, including accuracy, completeness, and synchronization.

In this blog, we’ll give you a high-level overview of the ADA, explore how Titles II and III of the ADA apply to web accessibility, learn what the DOJ’s new rule means, and share tips for making your videos accessible and ADA-compliant.

An audio description is narration that describes what’s happening on-screen. They’re important because users with visual and cognitive disabilities need the audio description to understand the visual content.

7 Reasons Why You Want to Caption Your Videos and Caption10 Guidelines: Create Great Captioned Videos

This guide includes just about everything there is to know about audio description. From laws, to best practices, to pricing it’s all here. Let’s get describing.

Accuracy is a critical aspect of the captioning process. Not only do accurate captions create an equal viewing experience for viewers who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing, but they also ensure your organization is in compliance with major accessibility laws.

Follow the guidelines so that your social media content will be available to everyone, including people who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, or low vision.

Learn how to create accessible video, audio, social media posts that conform to the Revised 508 Standards.

Improving the accessibility of social media for public service.

The challenge with social media is that most platforms are not fully accessible. While you can’t improve the accessibility of the platforms, you can follow the principles of inclusive design and provide everyone with equal access to your content.

Tips for writing alternative text for gifs.

Inclusive design may seem like the domain of UX designers and web developers. But social media marketers should practice it, too.

Manual and automated accessibility testing work together to find accessibility issues. Different types of manual testing are keyboard, screen reader, and zoom testing.

Keyboard accessibility is essential for ensuring that users can interact with digital content without being limited by the type of input device they use. This includes users with physical disabilities, visual impairments, and other conditions that make using a mouse difficult or impossible.

This is a guide for developers on how to install and configure the NVDA screen reader for Windows for accessibility testing.

Check the foreground and background color using the hexadecimal format. Plus, use the Alpha value for transparency and the Luminance slider for perceived lightness.

Learn how to download and set up NVDA screen reader. We’ll also go over keyboard shortcuts for navigating and reading content with NVDA.

Shortcuts for NVDA.

A curated list of sites specializing in stock photos and illustrations featuring people from underrepresented groups. Some are free, and some for a fee.

This article is designed to help new or novice NVDA users learn how to test web content.

How writing in plain language makes digital content more accessible. Plain language is communication that all readers can understand the first time they read it and know what they need to do next.