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"[D]id you know that digital environments (e.g., websites, mobile devices, etc.) are also required to possess certain characteristics in order to be accessible to people with disabilities? Just like physical environments, digital environments can either support or impede the inclusion of people with disabilities (Brown & Brown, 2006)."

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"To a sighted user, the order of items on a PowerPoint slide might seem obvious: start at the top, and work your way down. But screen reading programs don’t always read slide elements in the order you’d expect, which can be confusing for users with a vision or reading disability. That’s why PowerPoint includes tools that help screen readers interpret your slides in the way you intended."

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"Subtitles (or closed captions) help make your videos more accessible to a wider audience and improve the viewing experience for all. In this video we show you how to add subtitles to a Youtube video or how to add closed captions to a YouTube video. We will also show you how to download closed captions that YouTube automatically creates."

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"WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content."

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"To make sure people of all abilities can read and edit your document, run the accessibility checker."

This video walks you through how to run the accessibility checker in Microsoft.

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"Many of the learning materials educators use in the classroom are self-created. This has been made possible by the greater availability and improved ease of use of authoring tools. These tools now often include options for adding accessibility into the content creation workflow, and standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide guidance for how to do so. "​