Introduction to Course Accessibility

This resource provides an introduction to online course accessibility for faculty, staff, and instructional designers. The content is self-paced and will not have an instructor facilitating the learning and use of the resource. Within this resource, reasons for building and maintaining accessible courses are contextualized, explained and demonstrated. Emphasis is given to the use and evaluation of features within a Learning Management System (LMS) as a platform for both content delivery and student engagement. Participants in this course also learn to create downloadable files using templates that are pre-formatted for accessibility. These include both Microsoft PowerPoint and Word files that can be used to disseminate accessible course content such as lectures, slides, syllabi, and readings.

Note to Accessing Higher Ground workshop participants: We invite you to prepare for the workshop by participating in our AHG 2019 Pre-Conference Discussion. Feel free to review review last year's Pre-Conference Discussion as well.

Slides

2019 PowerPoint Slides
Accessibility in the Context of UDL

Getting Started

About the Course Developer

Familiarize yourself with Canvas

Watch course introduction video (Introduction transcript)

Pre- and Post-Workshop Discussions

Sample Workshop Pages (Coming Soon)

Start Module 1