Visual Design Principles: Color
This video covers best practices for using color.
Online Courses | Accessible Technology – University of Washington
This page from UW links to guides on creating accessible webpages, working with accessibility in Canvas, and making videos accessible.
Tables Tutorial | WAI W3C
This page goes over creating accessible tables with multiple headers, different sized rows and columns, and other irregularities. There's some work that goes into making tables accessible and many LMSs do not use good defaults (for example, Canvas does not add a header row to tables by default).
Images Tutorial | WAI W3C
Having accessible images online is about more than alt text. For example, what are you supposed to do if you're using an image as a link? Follow the guides in this tutorial to ensure your images are accessibility.
When to Describe Images
Does an image need to be described? That depends... walk through our interactive "decision tree" to learn about when and how best to make an image accessible.
The Accessibility Playbook | NWeLearn Sessions
How we design our courses and our content makes all the difference in the world to our students.
Office of Digital Accessibility | Stanford University IT
Good guides on document accessibility.
Using Color to Convey Information | Harvard University
Color is a powerful visual means of presenting or distinguishing information, but when you use color to identify or distinguish information, make sure that this information is still available to people who can't perceive color.
Avoiding the Use of Color Alone to Convey Meaning and Algorithms That Help | Pressbooks
Digital Accessibility | Harvard University
Web Accessibility Checklist for Content Editors/Creators
Page Structure
ADA Compliance for Online Course Design | EDUCAUSE Review
Digital Accessibility Checklist for Courses | Angelo State University
Accessibility Fundamentals Overview | WAI W3C
Curricula on Web Accessibility: A Framework to Build Your Own Courses | WAI W3C
Course: Accessibility: How to Design for All | Interaction Design Foundation
Accessibility: Usability for All | Interaction Design Foundation
Good article on how accessibility and usability are basically the same thing.
Why Accessibility? Motivating Learners To Bring About Change | WebAIM
A good article to read if you're in the position of accessibility training. Straightforward and insightful tips.
Course: Accessible Documents: Word, PowerPoint, & Acrobat | WebAIM
Course: Introduction to Web Accessibility | edX
Web Accessibility Training Courses | Deque University
Developing Web Accessibility Presentations and Training: Overview | WAI W3C
Accessibility Tutorials | Teach Access Initiative
Complex images for all learners
Good design and good info.
Make your Google Doc or Slides More Accessible | Google Support
Google Slides – Understanding Document Accessibility | Pressbooks
Testing With Screen Readers | WebAIM
Google Docs: Add or Edit Alt Text | University of New Mexico
Complex Images for All Learners
Accessibility for Teams
A ‘quick-start’ guide for embedding accessibility and inclusive design practices into your team’s workflow. The site is specifically for people working on government websites, but they're good standards for all websites (even if you're not "legally" required to be accessible... you really ought to be).