Content Accessibility

Content creators and editors are those involved in created websites that can control what’s inside individual pages, but not template level items such as menus, widgets, header and footer, etc.

• Course on accessibility on LinkedIn Learning which contains many web accessibility fundamentals: Accessibility in Web Design by Derek Featherstone
• An Introduction by WebAim
• 7 Core Skills of Digital Accessibility, Kate Brown and Jessica Blackwood
• Tips for Getting Started, WAI / W3C
• Tutorials by WAI

Many organizations have created collections of resource materials to support accessibility:

• Niagara College Canada – Accessibility Hub
• WebAIM – Creator of WAVE Accessibility Scanning Tool
• McMaster’s Accessibility Hub

Accessibility of Content

Checklists for Accessible Web Content

• A11y Project – For content creators, see sections: Content, Images, Headings, Lists, Tables, Video, Audio, Colour Contrast
• Northwestern University
• Deque
• WebAIM’s WCAG 2 – (comprehensive)
• University of Washington

• Overview
• Headings
• Plain Language

• Alternative text – WebAIM, PopeTech
• AccessAbility 2: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design
• Accessible Graphics

• McMaster Accessibility Hub
• For McMaster Course Content (Accommodating a Student)
• McMaster Libraries
• Rev.com for Video Captioning

• Otter.ai
• Word – Office 365

• PDF
  • PDF Accessibility CSUN
  • Adobe Resources
  • PAC PDF Accessibility Checker
• Linkedin Learning:
  • Creating Accessible PDFs
  • Advanced Accessible PDFs
• Word:
  • WebAIM: Accessible Word Documents – A succinct primer, with links to version specific resources.
  • Accessible Documents (focus on Word) by Nick Marquis, Faculty of Social Sciences
  • McMaster Office 365 Hub
• PowerPoint
  • WebAIM: PowerPoint
  • Niagara College Hub

Queen’s University – Social Media Accessibility