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The Challenges and Lessons of Creating Accessible Course Materials
- Maureen Glynn, Yueh-Chin Ma, Digital Education Strategies
- Restiani Andriati, Digital Media Projects Office
- Diane Michaud,Library and Archives
- Charles Silverman, School of Disabilities Studies
Universal design for learning
- Planning for the widest range of potential users results in a better learning experience for all users
- Be inclusive in your language and instructions
- Provide a logical and consistent structure to your online materials
- Ensure that your material is understandable e.g. unusual terms, abbreviations, pronunciations, etc.
- Recommended: Multiple modes of representation, engagement, expression
Action plan for Legacy courses
- Establish processes and guidelines
- Retrofit legacy content
- Course outlines: logical structure, properly formatted especially tables, meaningful links
- Course content: a/v migrate media to ryecast with closed captions and transcripts
Document Accessibility
- Machine readable i.e. selectable – can use OCR to make it so
- Include descriptions for images/figures/tables
- Proper heading structure
A/V
- Closed captions (basic level = subtitles, only covers spoken)
- Audio description ideally
IT Working Group
- Working on making the IT environment accessible
- Content (documents, videos, etc.)
- Systems (LMS, HR, Student Management, email)
- Process (policies and processes)
- Align with AODA/WCAG 2.0
Content
- Includes LMS pages
- documents to download (ideally multiple formats, beware of PPT)
- sites sent to
- media