Digital Accessibility

Do you use digital tools in your teaching? Do you create documents or multimedia materials intended for a wide audience? Did you know that 8% of men are colorblind? Did you know that 6 to 8% of people are dyslexic? By adopting a few best practices, you can ensure your document is usable by all your students. 

Examples of best practices: 

• Structure your documents (Headings, subheadings) 
• Do not convey information solely through color or formatting (italics, bold, etc.) 
• Add alternative text to images that convey information 
• Use tools to check the accessibility of a document 
• Create simple tables with headers for columns and/or rows 
• Subtitle your videos: By subtitling a video, you not only make it accessible to the hearing impaired, but you also make it easier for everyone to use in noisy conditions or for international students. 

Training on eCampus 

Learn best practices related to digital accessibility by following courses on our e-campus platform (reserved for students and staff of Paris-Saclay University): 

• Digital Accessibility - ContentSquare eLearning Module (eCampus)   
  3 training components:
  • The basics of accessibility: Presentation of fundamental principles and issues.
  • Standards and laws: Presentation of the current regulatory framework and legal obligations.
  • Issues and impacts: Analysis of the challenges and benefits of digital accessibility
• Digital Accessibility at All Project Stages - Atalan eLearning Module (eCampus)  
  To obtain the access key, please email us at accessibilite.numerique@universite-paris-saclay.fr, specifying your institution.  
  6 training modules:
  • Issues and basics, 
  • Consultation and scoping, 
  • Functional and graphic design, 
  • Accessibility evaluation, 
  • Integration and development, 
  • Editorial contribution. 
• AN Néo-MCF 2025 Workshop (eCampus) : 
  Introductory accessibility workshop for teachers: 
  • Course materials (PowerPoint), 
  • Fundamentals of producing and checking accessible documents, 
  • and tools to ensure document accessibility. 
• Introduction and Example with Word (eCampus): : 
  Course and practical exercises to make a Word document accessible.
   
• eCampus: Digital Accessibility at All Project Stages (Access key: a11y)

• The General Accessibility Improvement Framework (RGAA)  fully explains accessibility standards. It is well-structured and can be used as a guide. 
• A free online training course is offered by the CNED to help you include digital accessibility in your projects. 
• The AcceDe Web guidelines are the result of collaborative work by field professionals (companies, associations, web agencies, etc.) and are updated regularly. The objective is to provide practical and operational documents for implementing digital accessibility. The AcceDe PDF guidelines provide the necessary resources to design, write, and create PDF documents accessible to everyone. 
• Sharpen your skills with the Inria "Digital Accessibility" FUN MOOC available on the platform : France Université Numérique (FUN).  
• Consult this collaborative resource site on digital accessibility, which complements the Inria FUN MOOC. 
• Looking for tools to test a web page? Discover the Wave and aXe software tools. 
• Check out this inclusive MOOC, which shares best practices and resources to create online courses accessible to the greatest number of learners. 
• Train yourself on digital accessibility best practices by following this course: eCampus Digital Accessibility: Introduction and In-depth Study. 
• How can you describe images to make them accessible to everyone? The guide "How to describe images?" provided by BrailleNet offers precise instructions for all types of images (diagrams, graphs, chemistry, math, equations, etc.). It is a pool of information about making documents accessible and it can be consulted regularly. 
• Memo of digital accessibility best practices for documents (Word, LibreOffice, PDF)