The Monash University Digital Experience and Inclusion (DEI) team is dedicated to ensuring the University’s digital products and services are inclusive, accessible, and usable for everyone.

By embedding accessibility early-on into the design of a product or service, the team helps create intuitive, flexible digital experiences that reduce unintended barriers and exclusion, enabling more meaningful and equitable engagement for all users across the University’s digital ecosystem.

In 2025, Monash University was the first institution within the SAGE accreditation framework to submit an Athena Swan Silver application in a fully accessible format. It was a significant undertaking, one that required the DEI team to develop and apply rigorous accessible document practices at scale.

In this webinar, Claire Lee and Nirtha Selva from the Monash DEI team share the practical experience and lessons learned from that process. The session offers an introduction to accessible PDFs, covering common accessibility issues, the principles behind best-practice document design, and a hands-on demonstration of how to convert documents into PDFs that meet accessibility standards.

The team’s work spans several interconnected areas: technical accessibility implementation, design consultation, organisational capability building, and sector-wide knowledge sharing. That last piece is what brings us here today.

Whether you’re new to document accessibility or looking to strengthen your institution’s approach, this session offers grounded, practical insights drawn from real-world experience.

View the webinar below.