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Digital Accessibility for Academics: Basic Skills Workshop

Basics of accessibility for digital and print documents; tips and tools for academics. This workshop was presented on January 31, 2024 for the Center for the Humanities.

Text and Fonts

Best Practices

Use a sans serif font (without the little "tails") like Arial, Calibri, or Helvetica
Use a larger font on printed documents
Make PDFs readable using Adobe or a similar tool to recognize text (using OCR technology)
Do not use underlining for emphasis because that can be confused with links

What about highlighting?

When using highlighting over text, Harvard's Digital Accessibility guidance suggests you "provide another cue" such as bold or italics.

See also:

WC3's "Use of Color: Understanding SC 1.4.1"