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. Explore the resources below to learn how to create accessible digital content.
Word Accessibility
PowerPoint Accessibility
PDF Accessibility
Accessibility Content Blog
Keep your website ADA Title II compliant with Siteimprove
July 26, 2025
Siteimprove now features a dedicated Compliance tab in its Accessibility section, launched in 2025, to help you more easily meet ADA Title II requirements. This tool allows you to build custom dashboards and generate detailed accessibility reports tailored to these standards. Need access to Siteimprove or want to get your website added? Contact the OSC web team for support.
Principles for building content
Making sure UI follows "POUR" for our digital content.
Perceivable
Make sure everyone can see and hear the content.
Operable
Make sure everyone can use the content/website.
Understandable
Make sure everyone can understand the content and how to use the website.
Robust
Make sure the website/content works well with various devices and assistive technologies.
About Digital Accessibility
Basic information on making information technologies and digital materials accessible to people with disabilities.
Policy and Law
Title II, and UI policies, guidelines, leadership, plans and progress related to accessible technologies and digital materials.
Core Concepts
Learn the key and core concepts to digital accessibility.
Creating Accessible Websites
Guidance on how to make websites and web applications accessible.
Creating Accessible Documents
How to make Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and other digital documents accessible.
Creating Accessible Videos
Information and services for captioning and audio description of videos.
Hosting Accessible Online Meetings
Tips for ensuring online meetings are accessible in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and other online meeting platforms.
Teaching Accessible 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.