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Understanding is
a good first step.
Practical guidance to help you recognize barriers and create more accessible content. Start with a question, explore a topic, and take what you learn into your everyday work.
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Accessibility
Reference Guide
Common Ground Accessibility
Created by Laurie Kamrowski
Useful guidance. At your own pace.
Explore explanations, examples, and pointers for creating more accessible documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and digital content.
- Images, alt text, and tables
- Headings, contrast, layout, and consistency
- Audio, video, and captions
- Word, Google Docs, and PDF accessibility
- PowerPoint, Google Slides, and spreadsheets
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Why accessibility matters
A presentation you can bring to a supervisor or committee.
13 slides. About 10–15 minutes, plus discussion.
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Help others understand why access matters.
Explain everyday barriers, connect accessibility to your organization’s mission, and ask for a practical first commitment. You do not need to be an accessibility specialist to use this presentation.
- Speaker notes and source links for the presenter
- A proposed 90-day plan and an editable decision request
- An editable PowerPoint download and readable text version
- A browser presentation mode and print option
Free to copy, adapt, and present. Keep attribution and the copyright notice. Customize slide 12 with your organization’s scope, owner, budget, and review date.
Put learning into practice
One improvement
can be a place to begin.
Choose the topic that matches what you’re working on. Try a small change, check the result, and build from there. Accessibility is an ongoing practice of understanding people’s needs and removing barriers.
This guide provides educational guidance, not accessibility certification or a compliance guarantee. Software interfaces can change, and automated checkers do not identify every barrier.
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