As I take on the role of a teacher, I am beginning to realise just how much of our documents aren’t accessible. The university is pushing us to make everything accessible without a sensible pathway, but I’m going to try my best and make sure my students can access my documents without hindrance.
Currently I am trying to make my PDFs UA2 compatible using LaTeX. I also want to make sure my documents are colour blind friendly. A colour-blind simulator software would be great.
Is there like an “accessibility” suite one can self host to pass documents to check for various accessibility parameters?
I’m dealing with this right now too.
My advise is to ditch the PDFs where possible, and go with HTML documents. They are far easier to make accessible. The down side is you can’t easily pass them around in a self contained way that isn’t a bit wonky compared to a PDF or DOCX. But if you just link to them in a course, or otherwise expect students to just access them in a browser, HTML pages can work well.
PDFs have always been a nightmare, and the new accessibility rules are making thousands of people in education finally realize that.