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Checking for accessibility is a critical step to ensure content meets the required digital accessibility standards and works for everyone. Before publishing or sharing content, always check it by using both automatic checkers and manually reviewing with human judgement and assistive technologies.

This article outlines how to update the primary email address to the user's Minnesota State University, Mankato email address ending in @mnsu.edu.

What is considered fair use of copyrighted media? Where can I find information regarding Copyrights and Fair Use?

Explore tools, training, and platform-specific resources to help you create accessible content across documents, media, courses, and more.

Headings provide a structural hierarchy in documents and websites. Properly structured headings help all readers navigate documents efficiently. Visual readers rely on heading appearance to scan content, while screen reader users depend on programmatic heading structure to jump between sections.

Links are clickable elements in documents or websites that lead to another resource. Screen reader users often navigate by jumping from link to link, so they may only hear the link text without surrounding context. Clear, descriptive links improve navigation for everyone.

This article provides best practices and a checklist for employees and students who oversee or manage social media accounts, create or coordinate social media content, or run campaigns or posts on behalf of MSU to ensure posts are accessible and meet federal standards (WCAG 2.1 Level AA) and ADA compliance.

A table is a grid of cells arranged in rows and columns that organizes information. If they are not formatted correctly, tables can pose accessibility issues because screen readers often read them in a linear order, which can make the information confusing.

Microsoft Word is the recommended format for internal documents shared within the university. Word has accessibility tools like heading styles, alt text, an accessibility checker, and more.

Alternative text (alt text) describes the meaning or function of an image so people using assistive technologies, like screen readers, can understand its purpose. Alt text also benefits users with slow internet connections and supports SEO and other technical uses.

A screenshot is an image that captures what is on the screen of a computer or mobile device. Screenshots are sometimes found in instructional content. Screenshots create accessibility barriers because they contain text and information as images, which screen readers and other assistive technologies cannot interpret.

To make digital content accessible to everyone, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) define four core principles represented by the acronym POUR.

Captions, audio descriptions, and transcripts are tools that make media more flexible and usable in different learning situations. Captions show spoken words and key sounds as on‑screen text, supporting viewing in noisy or quiet environments. Audio descriptions add spoken explanations of important visual details, helping clarify what is happening on screen. Transcripts provide a text version of the media content, making it easy to review, search, or use materials in a text‑based format.

Microsoft PowerPoint is the recommended tool to create internal slide decks and presentations shared within the university. PowerPoint has accessibility tools like heading styles, alt text, an accessibility checker, and more.

A document title is the official name of the document stored in its metadata and displayed in the title bar when the file is opened in applications like Word and Adobe Acrobat reader. It helps all users quickly understand what a document is about.