Training and Resources: Guides

Assistive technologies are tools that help you accomplish tasks.  Most people will use assistive technology at some point in their lives. Many people use them, even if they don’t consider themselves to have a disability. This guide is a brief overview of many common assistive technologies in use at The Ohio State University.

Guidelines and best practices for captioning educational video.

Guidance on Ohio State's approach to live captioning in response to COVID-19.

This guidance is intended to help users evaluate preexisting media for accessibility.

A guide to hiring captioning and transcription suppliers from the RFP-generated supplier pool, plus contact information for each supplier.

Video, audio, and multimedia are used across the university and medical center and have become a regular part of our daily lives.

This guidance is intended to help users evaluate preexisting PDFs for accessibility.

This guidance is intended to help users evaluate preexisting documents for accessibility.

A starter guide on accessible writing, semantic structure, color contrast, data tables, alternative text and descriptive links. 

A PDF is considered accessible if it can be viewed, read, and interacted with by all users, including those who rely on assistive technology.

Creating an accessible Word document means that everyone can access the content you create.

Basic but highly impactful ways to improve accessibility in courses.

A guide on best practices for creating accessible emails.

A guide on how to use the alt attribute of the <img> element in various situations.