Accessibility

MSU's Accommodation Resource Page

Software Company Accessiblity Sites

• apple.com/accessibility
• apple.com/education/accessibility
• microsoft.com/enable
• adobe.com/accessibility

Software to Assist

• Macintosh Product Guide - Assistive Technologies search
• VoiceOver
• Apple's Universal Access
• MacSpeech (speech recognition)
• GhostReader (text to speech)
• EyePilot (color blind tool)
• Color Decoder (identifies colors and areas of color on the computer’s screen)
• VisioVoice (blind and vision impaired users)
• AssistiveWare
• AssistiveWare videos
• Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
• InqScribe
• ViaVoice
• Lynx (text web browser)
• google.com/gwt/n (text web browsing)
• Readability - (remove web ads and other info and just have plain text to read an article)

Podcasts

• UW Madison
• Catholic Education Office Podcast or RSS Feed
• Accessibility and the Main Learning Technology Initiative
• Accessible Instructional Materials - California State University

Software VPAT (Accessiblity statements)

• Apple
• Microsoft
• Adobe

• FileMaker (PDF)
• D2L

Captioning

• For Captioning Assistance - Contact MSU's Video Services

• with QuickTime
  • how-to
• with MAGpie 2.0
• Macaw Track Manager
• Slick Caption
• Trnascriptions

More Resources

• webaim.org/articles
• cew.wisc.edu/accessibility/tutorials
• catea.org/grade
• section508.gov

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PDF Accessiblity Tips

There are a variety of ways to create PDFs

• From Adobe Acrobat Distiller - included with Adobe Acrobat
• Scanning a paper document from Adobe Acrobat into a PDF (with OCR turned on)
• PDFCreater - open source (free)
• Apple MacOS X - Print to PDF
• Apple MacOS X - Export to PDF option from Apple Pages, Apple Keynote.

Find Out What Created the PDF

• Open any PDF and view Document Properties
• Select PDF in the Finder; Select File Menu; Get Info

webaim.org/resources/reader

Using Acrobat Professional 7/8

• Step 1 - Advanced Menu; Accessibility; Add Tags to Document (if not already - can do this in Word, Excel for Windows allows you to add tags)
• If the PDF document is a graphic format (scanned in text without OCR) or the text is not selectable - Document Menu; Recognize Text Using OCR - unless of course you want it to remain a graphic format.
• Step 2 - File Menu; Document Properties; Description Tab; add Title, Subject, Keywords ( I usually put the same text for all three), Author - either web address, person's name and email address. Advanced Tab; Language (select English). Adding this information helps web browsers "know" the document and call it up in web searches.
• Step 3 - Advanced Menu; Accessibility; Touch Up Reading Order (modify anything that may not be in right order or classified correctly - could be table that should be text or something else)
• Step 4 - Advanced Menu; Accessibility; Full Check (fix issues if possible)
• Step 5 - Save As to do a more refreshed save - if you just Save; document is doesn't get optimized and made as a smaller file size.