The Web Team is not responsible for facilitating the accessibility of content created outside of Drupal. Documents created in external applications, such as Word, Excel, InDesign, etc., are the sole responsibility of the person and team creating said documents.


While generating a document, e.g., .doc(x), .xls(x), .ppt(x), or .pdf, allows for flexibility, this can come at the cost of accessibility, when possible, consider copying the content of the document to a web page instead.


To meet Accessibility Guidelines, only documents that have passed Accessibility Checks will be hosted in Drupal.



Create Accessible Documents

For detailed information on how to make documents accessible, visit the Digital Accessibility site at JHU:


Accessible Documents →



Accessibility Support Vendors

If you're still having difficulties making the document accessible, and your budget allows, you can also consider working with vendors specialized in document remediation.


Vendors of Accessibility Services →




Other Resources



For questions or concerns regarding document accessibility, please email webaccessibility@jhu.edu.