Expand your technical skills in creating documents and PDFs that meet accessibility requirements through the UCOP Creating Accessible Documents series. Led by UCOP Web Accessibility Specialist Brian McNeilly, this series provides participants with foundational principles of digital accessibility, tips, tricks and hands-on practice.

Enroll to grow your skillset, support UC’s mission and champion accessibility for all!

Select each course name to register; classes take place virtually. Listings reflect Pacific Time.

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office
Aug. 21, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Digital accessibility ensures that users with disabilities can easily access and engage with digital content. In this course, you will learn the principles of digital accessibility, how to generate accessible Microsoft Office Documents and how to export these to PDF. This is the first course in the series and a prerequisite for UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 2: PDFs.

UCOP Creating Accessible Documents 2: PDFs
Sept. 24, 1 – 2:30 p.m.
Building off the Creating Accessible Documents 1: MS Office training, Accessible PDF Documents offers a deep dive into using Adobe Acrobat Pro to manipulate, tag and test PDF documents for accessibility. We will cover tagging documents from scratch, common accessibility errors, tables and PDF forms. To fully participate in this class, you must install Adobe Acrobat Pro (not just Acrobat Reader).

Visit the UCOP Electronic Accessibility webpage to learn more about accessibility principles, resources and guides.

For questions about the above classes, contact ucopld@ucop.edu.

Additional resource: Monthly Digital Accessibility Office Hours

Join Ethics, Compliance, and Audit Services; the Systemwide Office for Civil Rights; and UC Legal for monthly office hours focused on digital accessibility. These sessions are an opportunity to engage with subject matter experts in technical, legal and compliance roles to exchange best practices and discuss shared challenges. If possible, submit questions in advance to help ensure relevant subject-matter experts are available. All sessions take place from 1 – 2 p.m. Dates are as follows:

• Aug. 14, 2025
• Sept. 11, 2025
• Oct. 9, 2025
• Nov. 13, 2025
• Dec. 11, 2025
• Jan. 8, 2026
• Feb. 12, 2026
• March 12, 2026
• April 9, 2026

For questions, contact jenny.lofthus@ucop.edu.

Tags: accessibility, digital accessibility

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