WSU Online, Disability Services, and the Weber State University Stewart Library have coordinated to make remediation services available to WSU faculty to be more welcoming to all students, including students with disabilities.
If you'd like help making your documents and images meet accessibility standards, you can submit documents and we'll reach out with an estimated timeline for remediation.
The most effective way to support all students is to create accessible materials from the beginning. Designing with accessibility in mind not only saves time later, it fosters a more inclusive, welcoming learning environment from day one.
Document Remediation Criteria
Your documents must meet these criteria. This service is specifically for instructional materials used in WSU academic courses (including microcredentials). If you need remediation for other documents, contact Disability Services.
Document Quality: Remediation may not be possible for poor-quality scans or heavily marked-up documents (e.g., handwritten notes, highlights).
Relevance: If the document is outdated (will soon be replaced), delay submission for remediation until a replacement is identified.
Copyright & Fair Use Compliance: If you are unsure whether your document meets copyright or fair use requirements, review WSU’s copyright policy or seek guidance from your subject librarian.
Online Availability: If the resource is available online in an accessible format or via a library permalink, embed that link in your Canvas course instead of getting the document remediated.
Assignment Instructions: If the document contains assignment, quiz, or discussion instructions, add them directly into Canvas LMS instead of submitting a separate document for remediation.
PDF to Word Conversion: If submitting a PDF, check whether you have access to the original Word (or PPT) file. If available, submit the original file instead, as it is easier and faster to remediate.
Do your documents meet these criteria?
Watch: How Document Remediation Works
Estimated Remediation Times
We appreciate your dedication to making course materials accessible to all students. Due to the high volume of requests, processing times may vary, with more complex documents requiring additional time.
- 1-3 hours: Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, simple PDFS (five pages or fewer)
- 4-10 hours: PDFs (6-25 pages), PDFs with color contrast issues, PDFs containing footnotes, endnotes, links, tables, lists, or graphs, poor-quality scanned PDFs (e.g., book chapters) that require extraction and partial re-typing
- 10-30+ hours: PDFs longer than 25 pages with links, footnotes, endnotes, lists, and graphs, PDFs that are scanned images of handwriting (e.g., handwritten math notes) requiring recreation in InDesign, PDFs containing extensive math and science equations, PDFs with color contrast issues on every page, PDFs with large tables spanning multiple pages (common in scholarly articles), PDFs with corrupted metadata