Accessibility in Online Classes
Introduction
Online courses provide learning experiences to a diverse group of learners, and it's important to create a course environment that meets the needs of those learners. If you are curious how improving course accessibility affects your students the following resources may prove useful.
Overview of Accessibility
- W3C Web Accessibility Initiative's Web Accessibility Perspectives: Explore the Impact and Benefits for Everyone and compilation of all 10 videos (7:36 minutes).
- Portland Community College's To Care & Comply: Accessibility of Online Course Content ( Video 11:14 minutes)
- University of Washington's DO-IT's 20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course (CC By 3.0)
Canvas
- Canvas Accessibility Guide
- How can I give my students extra time to complete a quiz or exam?
- Canvas Accessibility Checker in the New Rich Content Editor
- Use Cidi Labs Design Tools to check accessibility in Canvas content (video 5:06 minutes)
- How do I add captions to Canvas Studio media in a course? (see more Studio resources on the ETS Canvas Studio Page)
- How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader when viewing a page as an instructor?
- How do I use the Microsoft Immersive Reader when viewing a page as a student?
- Most Common Issues Seen in Canvas
- Using inappropriate text headings, bold, italics, etc.
- Omitting alternative (alt) text for images
- Using scanned PDFs without converting them to usable text.
- Uncorrected Closed Captions
Respondus Lockdown Browser and Monitor
- LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor Accessibility Statement
- LockDown Browser Accessibility Resources
Microsoft Office
- Microsoft's Create accessible Office documents
- Microsoft's Office Accessibility Center
- Improve accessibility with the Office Accessibility Checker
- Microsoft Office's Everything you need to know to write effective alt text
- WebAIM: Microsoft Word Creating Accessible Documents
- WebAIM: PowerPoint Accessibility
Websites
Zoom
- Enabling or disabling closed captioning and live transcription services
- Viewing closed captioning and live transcription