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Accessibility First Aid Kit

This guide focuses on digital accessibility in some common day-to-day tasks. It includes resources to help you fix inaccessible materials, but ultimately aims to help you make content that is “born accessible” so there’s no need to fix it later. 

All Topics

  • Alt Text for Complex Images/ Data Visuals

  • Alternative (Alt) text

  • Audio description

  • Captions & Transcripts (live)

  • Captions & Transcripts (prerecorded)

  • Color contrast

  • Documents (PDF)

  • Documents (STEM)

  • Documents (Word, Docs)

  • Documents: PDF from InDesign

  • Email checklist

  • Emails

  • Graphics with text

  • Hashtags

  • Heading hierarchy

  • How To: Automatically capture Zoom transcript

  • How to: Color contrast checker

  • How to: Keyboard navigation

  • How to: Screen readers

  • How to: Set up Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services

  • Link text

  • List formatting

  • Presentations

  • Screen Reader Demo

  • Social alt text

  • Spreadsheets

  • Tables

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Find more tools and guidance at the University of Michigan Digital Accessibility website.

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