At its root, accessibility is about providing all students, online or on-ground, with equal opportunity to learn. For online and technology-enhanced higher education, extra steps must be taken to ensure that course materials, social media and other interactive tools have been designed in a manner that allows all students to utilize them. Several laws are in place to ensure that students are able to gain the access they need to educational materials. The resources provided here will help you and your institution set your students up for success by providing learning materials in formats that are accessible.
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- Web Accessibility: Trick or Treat?
- Accessibility in Courses and Services: The Exploration Begins - March 2018
- Enabling Accessibility in Learning Technology - March 2017
- Accessibility for Edtech Across the Campus - September 2015
- Promoting a Culture of Accessibility for Online Students - September 2015
- Video Captioning: Features, Costs, Good Practices - September 2015
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- Digital Accessibility Law and Regulation: Current Status and What to Do About It
- 2017 State and Federal Accessibility Guidelines
- Accessible Campus, by Council of Ontario Universities
- Access and Equity for All Learners in Blended and Online Education
- Coding, Captioning, and Courses: Accessibility in the Digital Age
- Faculty Peer Review and its Effect on Course Accessibility
- Programmatic, Systematic, Automatic: An Online Course Accessibility Support Model
- Equity Matters: Digital and Online Learning for Students with Disabilities