Grackle

Grackle is a digital accessibility tool that integrates directly with Google Workspace, including Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It automatically checks your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations for accessibility issues and guides you through fixing them, helping ensure your content meets WCAG and PDF/UA compliance standards. Grackle also enables the creation of fully tagged, accessible PDFs from within Google Docs. Ideal for faculty, staff, and students who create and share digital content across the UW community.

Grackle is a set of 3 add-ins, one each for Doc, Sheets and Slides

How to Get Grackle

To install Grackle click the GET GRACKLE button below and follow these instructions for each of the three Grackle apps that you want to use.

• Click Install
• Click Continue
• Click Continue to sign in with your netID@uw.edu account
• Click Select all on the “Grackle Sheets wants access to your Google Account” pop-up
• Scroll down and click Continue
• Repeat for each add-in you want to use

Additional Information

How to Use Grackle

• Open any Doc/Slide/Sheet in your UW Google Drive
• In the Google Docs menu, select Extensions > Grackle Docs > Launch
• Grackle Docs opens in the right sidebar and runs a check
• If the Extension does not show you can click on Add-Ins and then click Get Add-In’s and search for Grackle then follow the instructions above

Learn more about Grackle features and use cases