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Luke Bullock

Title	Communications Coordinator
Department	Communications
E-mail	LBullock@agcenter.lsu.edu
Address 1	LSU AgCenter Communications Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone	225-578-5686
Fax	225-578-4524

Web and Document ADA Accessibility Resources

LSU ADA Accessibility Resources

LSU has a list of useful ADA resources that can be accessed here:

https://www.lsu.edu/accessibility/digital/requirements/resources.php

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) Resources and Tools

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM) is a great resource for web accessibility. They have some good tools here:

https://webaim.org/resources/

Checking for Good Color Contrast

On images and web postings you should use the WebAIM Contrast Checker to make sure the contrast ratio between the text and background is high enough using this color contrast checker (if it passes WCAG AA standard then its good, AAA even better):

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

WebAIM has a bookmarklet app that you can drag to your Bookmarks bar and use to easily check contrasts or grab color codes from anywhere on screen using the eyedropper tool.

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/bookmarklet

Writing Alt Text for Images

How to write proper descriptions/alt text for images:

https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546

Accessibility in Microsoft 365 Applications

Accessibility tools for Microsoft 365

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/accessibility-tools-for-microsoft-365-b5087b20-1387-4686-a0a5-8e11c5f46cdf

Improve accessibility with the Accessibility Checker

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/improve-accessibility-with-the-accessibility-checker-a16f6de0-2f39-4a2b-8bd8-5ad801426c7f

Accessibility video training

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/accessibility-video-training-71572a1d-5656-4e01-8fce-53e35c3caaf4

Limitations of the Accessibility Checker

https://www.boia.org/blog/understanding-the-limits-of-microsofts-accessibility-checker

Accessibility in Adobe Acrobat

Using the accessibility checker in Acrobat:

https://webaim.org/techniques/acrobat/acrobat

Adobe Accessibility Series. Training sessions on PDF accessibility:

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/document-cloud-learn/acrobat-learning/advanced-tasks/accessibility-series/accessibility-series.html?

Tagging decorative images as artifacts in Acrobat:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/07/25/accessible-pdfs-in-acrobat-dc-tagging-content-as-an-artifact

https://accessible-pdf.info/en/basics/acrobat/create-and-check-artifacts-in-acrobat/

Publications for the LSU AgCenter

Innovate . Educate . Improve Lives

The LSU AgCenter and the LSU College of Agriculture

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