Transportation Research and Connectivity Pooled Fund Products
Webinar Training: Session 1 September 17, 2024
Geared toward researchers new to Section 508 accessibility requirements, this session helps authors prepare a compliant report in Microsoft Word, and tackles the most common errors that occur when documents are converted from Word to PDF. View the presentation slides.
Webinar Training: Session 2 October 22, 2024
For attendees of Session 1 and researchers who have some knowledge of Section 508 requirements, this session includes detailed discussion of accessibility practices as well as a question-and-answer segment. View the presentation slides.
Other Web-Based Training
Accessibility Training, Tools, and Events
Learn how you can make your agency’s electronic information and digital services accessible to everyone through online and video training, accessibility tools, and training events.
Accessibility in Microsoft Word
A series of YouTube videos from the Accessible Electronic Document Community of Practice (AED COP).
A short video that discusses Microsoft's built-in accessibility features.
Accessibility Training (e-learning modules)
Training videos from Minnesota DOT Digital Accessibility Coordinators.
Transportation Research and Connectivity Pooled Fund Guidance
Guidance for Transportation Librarians and Research Program Managers
This document provides a step-by-step guide to ensuring Word and Acrobat documents are 508-compliant.
Other Guidance
Create Accessible Digital Products
The Revised 508 Standards include not just IT tools and systems, but electronic content such as documents, web pages, presentations, social media content, blogs, and certain emails.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Library has created and compiled checklists and resources for authors and editorial staff to use when creating accessible documents.
Adobe shares its online guidance to creating PDFs that meet 508-accessibility standards.
IT Accessibility Laws and Policies
An online guide to the accessibility-related regulations governing public agencies' digital communications.
Guidance to help federal agencies improve management and delivery of accessible information and communication technology.
508-Compliant Research Report Template
Follow this template to ensure that research reports adhere to Section 508 guidelines. Each section of the report template includes instructions to aid authors in inserting report-specific content and meeting Section 508 accessibility requirements.
Guidance for Preparing 508-Compliant Research Reports
Instructions for using the 508-Compliant Research Report Template.
Section 508 Sample Contract Language for Research Compliance
This document highlights examples of possible practices to address Section 508 compliance in researcher contracts.
Everything You Need to Know to Write Effective Alt Text
Microsoft's online guidance for writing alternative text.
A comprehensive resource for describing images effectively.
Use this online tool to determine whether there's sufficient contrast between your text and background colors.
A free downloadable tool for checking color contrast.
An overview of how and why to create accessible tables.
Common Adobe Accessibility Errors and How to Fix Them
This document from the New York City Public School system provides a review of some of the most frequent accessibility issues in Adobe, as well as solutions for addressing them.
The Transportation Research and Connectivity pooled fund study, TPF-5(442), is a consortium of state departments of transportation (DOTs) and other partners that supports the coordinated development of transportation libraries as well as research organizations without dedicated libraries. Study focus areas include communication and networking, digitization, research report accessibility, and developing online resource guides and a toolkit for non-librarians.
This Resource Guide was prepared by CTC & Associates LLC for the Transportation Research and Connectivity pooled fund study, TPF-5(442), under the guidance of the following members of the study's technical advisory committee:
This guide is a living document that is intended to be revised and updated to incorporate new resources. To suggest a resource for inclusion, please contact one of the committee members listed above.
Publication date: November 2024.