Digital Research Commons

University of Houston Libraries will be hosting six ETD in MS Word Accessibility Training workshops in Spring 2026 at the Digital Research Commons (DRC), located on the second floor of MD Anderson Library (Brown Wing, Room 266-C).

These workshops are open to all UH graduate students and are being offered in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Final Rule on Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, published in the Federal Register on April 24, 2024. This workshop will teach the best ways to make electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) created in MS Word accessible to everyone. You will learn how to structure documents so that they can be read by screen readers and meet required accessibility standards.

For each session, the first hour covers the main ideas about accessibility elements and best practices in ETDs. This includes using the styles and headings, adding alt-text and captions to images, making tables and links easy to use, using colors and contrast in the right way, and using Word’s Accessibility Checker.

In the second hour, you will work on your own documents on your own, but you can get help if you need it.

Please register to select your preferred session.

If you have any questions, please contact Xiao Zeng, open publishing librarian.