Content and Design

Dive into the essentials of Content Creation and Design, where like a wrestling match, every element plays a critical role in victory.

Here, we focus on mastering content creation, crafting accessible hyperlinks, designing effective tables, and implementing alt text. You’ll also learn to optimize color contrast and apply accessible design principles, all while enhancing your Google Docs skills.

This category equips you with the tools to create digital content that is not only visually appealing but also fully accessible and engaging, ensuring your work stands out in the crowded digital arena.

Affinity by Canva struggles with PDF accessibility, failing to tag lists, tables, and images properly for inclusive, compliant documents.

Today’s post explores how Affinity by Canva handles the basics of PDF accessibility. The goal is simple: find out if the program …

How to use Venngage Design AI Feature

Venngage’s AI-powered design features allow you to automatically generate infographic and document layouts from a simple prompt, significantly reducing the time required …

How to update Google Docs Heading Styles

Using heading styles in Google Docs helps ensure accessibility, improve organization, and maintain formatting when sharing or exporting documents. This guide explains …

How to make a Canvas Course accessible.

Today’s post documents a real-life audit of a Canvas course, providing a practical demonstration of how to identify and correct accessibility issues …

How to edit YouTube captions

Today’s post walks through the process of editing YouTube captions. Captions are a game-changer. They help people who are deaf or hard …

How to use Microsoft Copilot to draft a Word document

Today’s post demonstrates how to use Microsoft Copilot to draft a versatile, accessibility-focused Word document featuring structured elements like tables, lists, headings, …

Google Docs Accessibility Features

Google Docs has improved its accessibility features, but how effective are they? Today’s post analyzes the latest tools, their functionality, and the …

How to create accessible forms using Venngage

Creating accessible digital documents has become essential for inclusive communication. In today’s post, we’re creating an accessible PDF form using Venngage, a …

Create and Org Chart using Venngage

Creating accessible organizational charts is essential for ensuring inclusivity in digital documents. Venngage, a user-friendly design tool, provides templates and accessibility features …

Accessibility Smackdown - The Accessibility Guy answers reader questions

The first episode of the Accessibility Smackdown Series tackles questions on accessibility challenges, including managing tags in PDFs, understanding WCAG guidelines, and …

Venngage beats out Canva in a head to head comparison of accessibility features

Today’s comparison post focuses on how Canva and Venngage handle accessible PDFs, evaluating their tools and compliance with accessibility standards like WCAG …

how to create accessible presentations with Venngage

Creating accessible presentations is essential for ensuring all audiences, including those using assistive technologies, can access and benefit from the content. This …

How to create an accessible PowerPoint presentation using ChatGPT 4.0

In today’s digital world, accessibility in content creation is crucial. In today’s post, we’ll learn how to effortlessly create accessible PowerPoint presentations …

A comparison of Venngage's accessibility features with those of Canva.

Welcome to my first-ever comparison post, where we pit two strong contenders against each other: Canva vs. Venngage. In one corner, we …

Learn what happens when you convert a Canva presentation to PowerPoint.

In today’s post, we’re examining what happens when you convert a Canva presentation to PowerPoint. You’ll learn what to look for to …

A review of what happens when you convert an accessible Google Slides presentation to PowerPoint.

In today’s post, we’re examining what happens when you convert an accessible Google Slides presentation to PowerPoint. You’ll learn what to look …

How to add alt text to Canva presentations

Today, we’re diving into Canva presentations to learn how to enhance accessibility by adding alternate text to images. Video Guide With Canva’s …

How to choose a layout and set the reading order in Google Slides

This post explores the essential steps to set up an accessible presentation in Google Slides: Choosing the right slide layout and controlling …

How to Add Alternate Text to Google Slides

Welcome to the latest post from The Accessibility Guy! I’m Shawn Jordison, and today, we’re focusing on a crucial aspect of creating …

How to make Google Slides Accessible

Welcome to our blog on enhancing accessibility in Google Slides. Today we’ll dive into the key features to ensure your presentations are …

Preparing for an Accessible Semester: Where to Start Are you a faculty member wondering how to make your course accessible? Knowing where …

Today’s post will provide an overview of how to use Canva AI to create a presentation, export it to PDF, and then …

This post will go over how to create accessible Canva documents and export them to PDF. Then, we will make it accessible! …

This post aims to explore how Canva PDFs are not accessible to people with disabilities. It seems like such a basic need …

Welcome to the fascinating world of color contrast and its critical role in digital accessibility. In this post, we’re delving into the …

The built-in accessibility checker in Canvas allows users to run an automated check on the Canvas page. This check ensures full accessibility …

Images in Canvas need accurate descriptions for students who rely on screen readers. Images that convey a lot of text should be …

Making tables accessible in Canvas can be easy if you set them up correctly! Using tables for layout purposes should be avoided. …

While screen readers can read a full page to a user, screen reader users may prefer to instead listen to a list …

Lists in Canvas are great from an accessibility standpoint because they provide structured order to content in a linear fashion. Lists are …

Headings are often used as the sole method for navigation for those using a screen reader or other assistive technology. It allows …

This video will walk users through how to make a canvas page accessible. Ive got a even more content for Canvas Accessibility. …

Canvas Studio makes it easy to host a captioned video for content that you or someone else has created. This guide explains just how to do it!

A heading is a style element that affects the structure of the content. Organizing a page by headings assists users with the orientation of the content and design. Typically, headings visually appear larger and more distinct than other text. Using headings and ensuring they are visually apparent is helpful for persons with all disabilities.