Training Resources

Free Training Courses

Learn about accessibility at your own pace. Explore the following training materials by topic.

Digital Accessibility Foundations

This online course provides the foundation you need to make your digital technology accessible, so that it works well for people with disabilities, meets international standards, enhances the user experience for everyone, and achieves goals.

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Intro to Web Accessibility

Web accessibility is essential in today’s world. Here you will find a suite of courses including an introduction to web accessibility, accessible web design, regulations, standards and more.

Note: Percipio is an online learning environment for UM System employees.

Microsoft Word and Accessibility Best Practices

This training covers techniques to create accessible and navigable documents. You will learn how to use heading styles and table of contents features to improve navigation, write effective image descriptions, and convert complex tables into simple ones for accessibility.

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Digital Accessibility – MU Extension Spring Institute

MU Extension provides training each spring on a topic of interest. The topic for 2025 was Digital Accessibility. Learn about a range of topics from social media, video and audio captions. newsletters, and more.

Test and Remediate PDFs for Accessibility Using Adobe Acrobat DC

The Accessible Electronic Document Community of Practice (AED CoP) created this series of videos to explain and demonstrate the minimum steps needed to ensure your PDF is Section 508 conformant.

Adobe Acrobat does not come standard on campus computers.