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UAlbany and SUNY offers a wide selection of free accessibility training options. We encourage all campus community members to start learning today.

Not sure where to start? We recommend all students, faculty and staff complete these foundational trainings:

Foundational Trainings for All Roles

Note: You must request free access to Deque University before getting started.

Fast Track to Accessibility for Any Role (Non-Technical): This course can be completed in about 60 to 75 minutes and provides a high-level overview of accessibility principles and practices.
Accessibility Fundamentals - Disabilities, Guidelines, and Laws: This course can be completed in about 90 minutes and helps participants understand different types of disabilities as well as the standards and laws that guide accessibility practices.
Fast Track to Accessibility for Microsoft Office: This course can be completed in about 75 minutes and provides specific guidance for creating accessible materials in Microsoft applications, such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
Fast Track to Accessibility for PDF Creators 2.0: This course can be completed in about two hours and provides specific guidance for creating accessible PDF documents.

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Brightspace Content

CATLOE

Build Your Foundation:
Go Deeper: Using the Brightspace Accessibility Checker

Emails

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Email Accessibility in Outlook

Excel documents

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Build Your Foundation: Fast Track to Accessibility for Microsoft Office
Go Deeper: MS Excel Accessibility Techniques

Web Services

Accessible Excel document checklist

PDF documents

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Build Your Foundation: Fast Track to Accessibility for PDF Creators 2.0
Go Deeper:
- Basic PDF Accessibility 3.0
- Advanced PDF Accessibility: Complex Tables and Forms 3.0

Web Services

Accessible PDF document checklist

PowerPoint documents

Social Media Posts

Office of Communications & Marketing

Social media accessibility guidelines

Video and/or Audio

CATLOE

Build Your Foundation: Accessible Multimedia Content
Go Deeper:
- Captions for Recorded Video
- Audio Descriptions for Video Content

Web Services

Accessible video checklist

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Build Your Foundation: Multimedia, Animations, and Motion: The Basics
Go Deeper: Multimedia, Animations, and Motion: Advanced

Websites

Web Services

Build Your Foundation: Web Accessibility Training
Go Deeper: Accessible webpage checklist

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Build Your Foundation: Fast Track to Accessibility for Any Role (Non-Technical)
Go Deeper: Basic Web and Document Accessibility for Content Contributors

Word documents

CATLOE

Build Your Foundation: Accessible Word Documents

Go Deeper:

Web Services

Build Your Foundation: Web Accessibility Training
Go Deeper: Accessible Word document checklist

Deque University

Note: You must request free access to Deque.

Build Your Foundation: Fast Track to Accessibility for Microsoft Office
Go Deeper: MS Word Accessibility Techniques

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Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, and Online Education (CATLOE)

Digital Accessibility Webinars

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, and Online Education (CATLOE) offers several live and on-demand webinars explaining how to locate, create and share accessible course materials.

Watch CATLOE's on-demand webinars.

Digital Accessibility Guides

CATLOE offers for accessibility guides for course materials to help faculty complete these common tasks:

Writing an accessible course syllabus
Making Microsoft Word documents more accessible
Making PowerPoints more accessible
Making multimedia more accessible
Creating accessible content in Brightspace

Web Services

Web Accessibility Training

Learn the what, how and why of digital accessibility by completing Web Services' Web Accessibility Training.

This asynchronous, online training has eight self-paced modules, which each take less than 30 minutes to complete. This course is required for all University site editors, but all UAlbany students, faculty and staff have access.

Web Accessibility Checklists

Siteimprove Learning Hub

The Siteimprove Learning Hub offers video-based accessibility trainings. Explore available Siteimprove courses (no sign-in required) to review current offerings.

UAlbany faculty and staff can request access to the Siteimprove Learning Hub by emailing [email protected].

Deque University

SUNY has entered into an agreement with Deque University to provide accessibility training across all SUNY campuses. All UAlbany faculty and staff can request free access to Deque.

Self-paced Courses

Choose from 30 asynchronous, online courses that are valuable for anyone who creates digital materials. The courses are self-paced and take from 30 minutes to 6 hours to complete. Review SUNY's course recommendations to get started.

Checklists & Chatbot

Deque University also offers accessibility checklists and an accessibility-focused AI chatbot that can answer specific questions.

Universal Design for Learning at SUNY

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at SUNY project provides support and training for SUNY faculty and instructional designers.

Explore the Webinar Archive to access previous webinars on a variety of topics, such as:

Disability, ableism and digital accessibility
Inclusive pedagogy
Accessible instructional design and educational technology
Neurodiversity
Accessibility in STEM