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Part 1: Accessibility is required by law and instrumental in meeting the Sea Grant mandate to reach as many people as possible in the communities we serve. Two things are often roadblocks to providing greater accessibility: understanding accessibility and disability, having the tools to include accessibility from the start of any project. This session will remove the first roadblock by introducing participants to accessibility and disability from a disability justice perspective with discussion time to work out how accessibility applies to our work at Sea Grant. The second part will deal with the second roadblock by explaining accessible design principles and how to apply them to specific types of digital documents, finishing up by giving participants time to work in small groups on making provided digital documents more accessible and creating accessible documents from the start. By the end of the session, the participants will have a deeper understanding of accessibility and specific techniques to apply immediately to the digital documents they create like email, reports and presentations.