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Request accessible versions of materials, such as electronic textbooks or brochures.

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Tools and Resources

Tip Sheets & Posterettes

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Developed by the ACCESS-ed team, these documents provide short practical hand-outs on specific UDE topics.

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Creating an Accessible Logo

This posterette provides guidelines to make universally designed logos.

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(Word Document) Creating an Accessible Logo Posterette

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DARC Positon Description

Prepared in posterette format for handy distribution.

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(Word Document) DARC Position Description Posterette

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Font Size for Accessible Media in the Classroom

These two Power Point slides provide a guideline to insure that the font size within print media are accessible when projected.

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(PowerPoint Presentation) How to Determine Font Size for Accessible Media

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No Manual Formatting

In word processed documents (that are not RTF files), formatting with the use of "B" or "I" or by manually organizing content with tabs, underlines, etc. provides structure and organization that is only available to sighted readers.  Using the "styles" features of word processing software is essential to creating documents that are universally designed. 

(Word Document) No Manual Formatting

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Procurement for Accessible Goods & Materials

This posterette describes recommended steps to ensure maximum accessibility when acquiring goods and materials - custom or "off the shelf".

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(Word Document) Good and Materials Procurement

(Word Document) Procurement Tips

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Remodeling Posterette

Before engaging in a remodeling project, here are some tips for accessibility.

(Word Document) Remodeling Posterette

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Top 10 Tips for UD in the Classroom

A summary of the "basics" to introduce UD into your classroom.

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(Word Document) Top 10 Tips for UD in the Classroom

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Writing EqTDs Posterette

The essential "bare-bones" of what needs to be in an equivalent text description and where the EqTD is placed in the document. Whenever you create a document, electronic or paper, any non-text element (picture, graph, "eye-candy") is not accessible to many individuals.

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(Word Document) Writing EqTD's Posterette

If you can't see things from a user's perspective, you can't make something accessible.

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