For our collection of tech tips related to accessibility, please see the Accessibility section on our Tech Tip Tuesday page.
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.
Accessibility features can benefit all students.
A detailed guide to creating accessible courses from the University of Washington.
Tech Tip Tuesday: A quick introduction to the Accessibilty Checker in Canvas.
A Canvas guide to using the built-in Accessibility Checker.
For additional accessibility tips related to Canvas, please see the Accessibility section on our Tech Tip Tuesday page.
A helpful checklist for creating accessible documents from the University of Washington. Find details on using headers, lists, and tables; designing accessible visual features, and more.
The NCDAE has created single-page cheat sheets to help instructors create accessible documents. Download the PDF versions here:
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.
The essential features of accessible videos, including captions, transcripts, and audio description.
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.