LibGuides: Accessibility Resources: Making Content Accessible

What is Accessibility?

Accessibility is about making sure users with disabilities can still access all relevant content.

For example, if a user is visually impaired, they may not be able to see graphs well or at all, so we need to make sure there is a way they can still get the information they need from the graph.

A comprehensive guide is available. This page has some short tips to get you started.

If you have any questions about accessibility or anything in this section, please contact accessibility-lib.

Resources for making LibGuides and web pages accessible

Resources for making presentations accessible

How to make your presentation accessible recording & slides (March 20, 2025)
Create accessible Google Slides - from Harvard
Content accessibility fundamentals - from University of Colorado, Boulder
Creating more accessible Google slides - from Wake Forest University
Understanding PowerPoint accessibility - from University of Colorado, Boulder

Accessibility training recordings & slides

Note: Most of the Information Services training recordings were accidentally deleted, so we only have slide links for now. We hope to re-present and record the sessions that were deleted this year (FY26).

How to make your presentation accessible recording & slides - September 30, 2025
How to use color in your content recording & slides - March 25, 2025
Screen reader demo + Q & A - October 10, 2024
Writing for the web recording & slides - October 1, 2024
Recommended accessibility extensions and tools (slides only) - July 23, 2024
Improving readability tips (slides) - May 9, 2024

Captioning Video

How to request captioning and uploading to Youtube:

You may request captioning at no charge to your department by following the process below. The Communications team provides this service, with UXWS as backup.

Create a video that will be linked from our public website and/or libguides.
Send an email to video-lib@mit.edu with a request to caption your audio/video. (A minimum of one week’s turnaround time is required.)
- In the email please provide:
  - Topic of the audio/video.
  - Target audience (e.g. a single class, a specific department, the entire MIT community, etc.)
  - Desired posting deadline
  - The audio/video file itself. To include this, either
    - Attach audio/video file to your email (if file is 40MB or less)
      OR
    - Include a link to the audio/video file (from Dropbox or Google).
After we receive your email with all the needed information, we'll order the caption file from 3PlayMedia.
Once completed, we'll upload the video and captioning file to the MIT Libraries YouTube channel for hosting. We'll determine how it should be tagged in YouTube.
We'll email you the YouTube URL which will allow you to embed/link to the video where needed.
Done!

Captioning Collections Videos

If you need video captioning for materials from the Libraries' collections, please contact the Imaging Lab.

Accessible Images

Images are not accessible. You need to add in alt text to make them accessible. A guide on how to make images accessible is available.

Accessibility Tips

Please refer to this guide for short tips to help you improve the accessibility of your content.