ATI supports faculty and staff with creating and providing accessible documents for course materials. Partnering with Disability Services and the Stearns Center, course documents are identified and sent to the ATI for an accessibility review and remediation. The most commonly used formats are Word, PowerPoint, and PDF.
Document Preparation by Faculty and Staff
In order to provide accessible documents in a timely manner, we ask faculty and staff to prepare documents prior to submitting a request by including the following:
- Add alternative text for all meaningful images, charts, graphs, and objects.
- For guidance on how to do this on your own, check out:
- Use built-in slide layouts!
- Add alternative text for all meaningful images, charts, graphs, and objects.
- For guidance on how to do this on your own, check out:
- For multiple images on one slide, group image and then add alt text for the grouped image.
- For guidance on how to do this on your own, check out:
- Send as is!
- However, scanned material, such as chapters from books or articles, must be good quality scans. Good quality scans are clear of highlights, underlines, or other elements which distort the image or text.
For additional information on making your documents accessible, visit our Create Accessible Documents webpage for guides, videos, and step-by-step directions.
Document Remediation Plan
Faculty and staff can submit a request on the ATI’s Request Services Page.
- Select Request a Document Accessibility Review.
- Select Request Document Remediation Support.
- Fill in all applicable information in the form.
- Upload the document(s) to the request services form, up to 20 documents can be submitted in one form.
- Any document over 8MB can be emailed directly to [email protected] after submitting a request.
- ATI will notify submitter by email when the request is received and is processing.
All requests are reviewed and documented for tracking purposes. ATI remediates the following areas for accessibility.
- Word and PowerPoint documents
- Alternative Text and Images (when added by faculty or staff)
- Headings
- Lists
- Tables
- Meaningful Hyperlink Text
- Color Contrast
- PDF documents
- Alternative Text and Images
- Headings
- Lists
- Tables
- Meaningful Hyperlink Text
- Color Contrast
- Page Numbers
ATI will email request submitter with a list of completed documents along with a Dropbox link to download the accessible version of the file(s) upon completion.
Document Remediation Prioritization:
ATI staff prioritizes the remediation of documents used in:
- Classrooms with students with sensory impairments (i.e., blind, low vision, deaf, and/or hard of hearing) enrolled
- Degree programs with students with sensory impairments enrolled
- Front-facing websites hosting documents
- Online courses developed c/o Stearns Center