A structured seven-phase programme for university staff. In-person at your campus. Training itself is free; only travel and logistics for trainers are at cost-recovery, waivable on need. Most institutions reach in-house independence within 12 to 18 months.
Seven phases of training covering the full document accessibility lifecycle, from creating accessible documents at source through running an in-house pipeline.
Training is free. No training fee. Only travel and logistics for trainers at cost-recovery, waivable on need.
Delivered in person at your campus by trained practitioners from the Accessible Documents Initiative.
Each phase builds on the last. Your staff progress from understanding accessibility to running a fully independent document pipeline.
How screen readers, magnification tools, and text-to-speech work with documents. The principles of Easy Read remediation and why structured summaries matter for neurodivergent students. Why this matters for your students.
Heading structures, reading order, alt text, and list formatting in Word, PowerPoint, posters, and teaching materials. Addressing accessibility at the point of creation reduces the remediation burden significantly.
Tags panel, reading order, table editor, and accessibility checker. Participants work on real documents from their own institutions throughout.
The full STEM remediation process: equation extraction, MathML generation, writing plain-language equation descriptions, and handling complex table structures with multi-level headers.
EPUB structure, navigation, accessibility metadata, and testing with assistive technology. Essential for institutions moving toward digital-first publishing.
Plain language principles, visual supports, layout rules, and international Easy Read guidelines.
Design and run a systematic document accessibility operation. Covers automated processing configuration, template creation, quality assurance workflows, and how to sustain the pipeline independently after the partnership ends.
Participants do not need to complete all seven phases. The recommended pathway depends on their role at the institution.
Faculty, communication staff, and anyone who creates course materials. These phases address the most common source of inaccessible documents: content that was never made accessible before export.
Recommended: Phases 1 and 2.
Disability services, library staff, and document coordinators who handle existing inaccessible documents. Phase 1 provides the conceptual foundation. Phases 3 and 7 build hands-on and systems skills.
Recommended: Phases 1, 3, and 7.
Any institution with significant mathematics, sciences, engineering, or economics content. Phase 4 is essential and is best taken after Phase 3.
Recommended: Phases 1, 3, 4, and 7.
Library and publication teams moving toward digital-first delivery. Covers both remediation of existing content and creation of natively accessible EPUB publications.
Recommended: Phases 1, 2, 5, and 7.
A self-paced online learning programme on document accessibility, open to individual learners anywhere. Modules will cover accessibility fundamentals, practical document remediation across PDF, Word, PPT, and EPUB, Easy Read basics, and quality checking. Includes practice tasks and a certificate on completion.
Cost: Free for students and individual learners. Institutional licences available at cost.
Enrolment and full syllabus coming soon.
We are open to collaborating with universities to develop this work further.
The Accessible Documents Initiative is willing to work with universities to co-develop formal certification courses in document accessibility: structured academic programmes that go beyond in-house training and lead to recognised qualifications for participants.
We are particularly interested in two pathways: programmes that develop document accessibility specialists who can serve their institutions and communities independently, and trainer-of-trainers programmes that equip practitioners to train others, building a multiplier effect across the region.
If your institution is interested in exploring this, we would welcome a conversation.
Tell us about your institution, your team, and which phases are relevant. We will design a programme that fits your needs.