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.

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

Basic but highly impactful ways to improve accessibility in courses.

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

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.