Accessibility
If you have students in need of accommodations, refer them to Disability Access Services at DAS@cui.edu or 949-214-3039. For additional resources, please visit the Disability Access Services and the Faculty and Staff Resources websites.
This session outlines the legal, ethical, and technical aspects of accessibility, along with steps you can take to improve accessibility in your own courses.
This Educause article covers strategies, tips, and additional resources for ADA Compliance in Online Course Design.
Tech Tip Tuesday: A quick introduction to the Accessibilty Checker in Canvas.
A Canvas guide to using the built-in Accessibility Checker.
There are many different ways to go about making your course media more accessible, all of which result in providing your students with quality closed captions and a transcript.
Accessible audio and video is essential for people with disabilities. Depending on the content of your media, it might need captions/subtitles a transcript, audio description of visual information.
The text within Word documents can be read by assistive technologies; however, in order for Word documents to be fully accessible, authors must follow the core principles.
Cheat Sheets for Accessible Documents
The NCDAE has created single-page cheat sheets to help instructors create accessible documents. Download the PDF versions here:
Word 2016 for Windows, or Word 2016 for Mac
PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, or PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
Accessibility features can benefit all students.