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Welcome! This is a self-paced, just-in-time guide for making print documents accessible to everyone, including persons with disabilities. This guide primarily discusses the accessibility features that should be included in essays, books, posters, and flyers, but could be applied to other non-digital texts as well.

To keep this guide short and to the point, we have focused on what features should be included in print documents and why instead of providing much in the way of instructions for using text editing programs to make documents accessible. If you are looking for how-to documentation, try the links on the Resources page. You can also see if Clemson's guides for digital documents has what you're looking for. If your document will be made available in both print and electronic format, be sure that your document meets accessibility requirements for digital documents in addition to following the guidelines covered in this guide. If there is an area where the criteria for each format conflicts, you should generally comply with the requirements for digital documents. This is because the digital documents have requirements that have been carefully standardized and can be legally enforced. As far as we are aware, there are no such standardized and legally enforced requirements for print documents. This said, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, we still have a responsibility to make print documents as accessible as possible. That is why we have developed this guide, and have used recommendations from entities such as the American Publishing House for the Blind, Inc. and American Foundation for the Blind as a basis for our criteria.

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This resource was developed by Clemson's Accessibility Commission.
Last Updated Fall 2018.
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