About this session 
Learn about how to create a culture of 
participation and gain faculty buy-in for 
developing accessible instructional 
materials. 
The results of an action research project 
focused on accessible instructional 
materials will be shared. The problem this 
study addressed was the fact that existing 
support for learning about accessible 
materials was not being used; resulting in 
faculty not knowing how to create 
accessible instructional materials. To 
address this problem a small scale 
intervention was designed to teach 
faculty how to create accessible syllabi. 
Through this research, we learned that 
with minimal intervention and time 
commitment faculty acquired the skills 
and strategies necessary for creating 
accessible syllabi. 
Go to Collaborative Google Slides 
Presentation http://tinyurl.com/collaborate-ahg15 
Session Details 
When & Where 
Thursday, November 19, 2015, 
11:15a-12:15p MDT 
Meadowbrook I/II 
Presenter 
Kristi O'Neil-Gonzalez, 
Twitter: @kristi_oneil, 
Email: kristi.oneilgonzalez@csuci.edu 
Short Link to this page: 
tinyurl.com/ahg15-facbuyin 
Quick Reference Guide For Accessibility 
Below are suggestions for commonly used programs that are recommended ways of increasing the accessibility of a document or 
project. Many of the items below apply to more than one program and this is by no means a comprehensive list. 
Tips for Microsoft Word 
Use built in Styles for Headings 
Add 'alt text' to all images & charts 
Generate a Table of Contents for long documents 
Use tables for data, not layout 
Use built in settings for bulleted and numbered lists 
Make sure link destinations are clear outside the context 
Make sure the table structure make sense when reading 
from left to right, row-by-row 
Do not use color alone to convey meaning 
Tips for PowerPoint 
Use slide layouts 
Give each slide a unique title 
Add 'alt text' to images & charts 
Check slide reading order 
Check to make sure all content is visible in outline view 
Use pre-defined slide templates 
Use san-serif fonts such as Arial or Verdana 
Tab through slide section areas to test the reading order

Keep in mind... 
Content within a text box is not accessible to screen reader 
users 
Images, videos, and animations are inaccessible to screen 
reader users when alt text is not included 
Screen readers read containers within a PowerPoint slide in 
the order that they were created and not in the order they 
appear 
Reminders for PDFs 
PDF format preserves a document's appearance across 
operating systems and devices. 
Tag content in PDFs, and take steps to ensure that the 
content will be read in the correct order. 
Identify language of text 
Markup tables appropriately