While your site needs to be ADA compliant, it is also essential for the files you upload to it to be compliant. This is so that visitors to your site, who may have an impairment, can access a majority of the material that you have on your site. Listed below, you will find links to external sources that we do not endorse that review how to fix or make documents in several popular applications ADA compliant.
General
- Cheatsheets - one-page documents created by the National Center on Disability and Access to Education, which are catered for the less technical individuals to help them create accessible content.
- Create accessible PDFs - Link to a page maintained by Microsoft that reviews how to make Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations. Word documents, Outlook email, and OneNote notebooks accessible, finally saving them as accessible PDFs.
InDesign
- Preparing InDesign Files for Accessibility - An article created by Adobe that contains a movie that reviews how to make InDesign files accessible.
- New Solutions for Creating Accessible PDF Documents with Adobe InDesign CS5.5 - Adobe (PDF)
Powerpoint
- How to make accessible PowerPoint files - WebAIM
- How to Make Your PowerPoint 2010 Presentations 508 Compliant - Created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services the document outlines how to make a Powerpoint 2010 presentation compliant.
Microsoft Word
- How to make accessible Microsoft Word files - WebAIM
- How to Make Your Word 2010 Documents 508 Compliant - A pdf created by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that reviews how to make a Word 2010 document compliant
Excel
Multimedia