Creating accessible content ensures that all Hawkeyes—including individuals with disabilities—can fully engage with websites, documents, videos, and digital applications. This page provides essential guidelines and tools for making content perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust, whether you're developing a website, formatting a document, captioning a video, or hosting an online meeting.

Small changes—like using high-contrast text, adding captions to videos, or including alternative text for images—can make a big difference.

Key Topic Areas

Explore the various Key Topic Areas to learn about how to best create accessible specific types of digital content.

Core Concepts

Learn the key and core concepts to digital accessibility.

Documents

How to make Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and other digital documents accessible.

Email

General guidance for creating accessible email communications, focusing on the tools used most on the UI campus.

Online Meetings

Tips for ensuring online meetings are accessible in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other online meeting platforms.

Teaching Courses

Technological and pedagogical considerations for ensuring online and hybrid courses are accessible.

Social Media

This section offers some suggestions on how to improve your social media connections by sharing more accessible online content.

Videos

Information and services for captioning and audio description of videos.

Websites

Guidance on how to make websites and web applications accessible.