Accessibility tools to help you succeed
Training resources
Canvas LMS
Fundamentals of Accessible Digital Content in Canvas by Instructure - This free, on-demand course takes about one hour to complete. The course can be accessed directly in Canvas. Follow these steps:
- Log into Canvas
- In the left navbar, click the Help icon
- Choose the Training Services Portal from the list and follow the prompts to login
- Type "Accessible" into the search bar.
- Click "Enroll Now" on the course.
Using Accessibility Checkers and Canvas to Create Accessible Content (February 2025) - A detailed video from Texas A&M University about creating accessible content for Canvas.
Canvas Course Accessibility Checklist
Digital accessibility
Section 508 Training Videos - This website contains a library of digital accessibility training videos. Subjects include:
- How to make an Accessible Document in Microsoft Word
- How to Test and Remediate PDFs for Accessibility Using Adobe Acrobat DC
- How to Author and Test Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations for Accessibility
- And many more...
FLC Employee Training – This comprehensive training includes modules on creating accessible content such as documents, webpages, emails, and video.
Software tools
- Acrobat accessibility checker – This checker is included in Adobe Acrobat Pro. It will help remediate some, but not all, issues.
- MS Office – Most MS Office products have an accessibility checker built-in. (Note: If you are using a Mac and exporting the docs as PDFs, a lot of the accessibility settings within the document may be lost.)
- CommonLook – This software will check and fix MS Word and PDF docs. We have a few licenses available.
- Google Lens - Google Lens trick for OCR.
- Open an image or PDF in the Google Chrome browser.
- Click on the three dots on the upper right corner of the browser.
- Choose “Search with Google Lens”.
- Highlight the text you want to convert.
- Copy and paste the text into a text editor.