Appendix 5: Additional Accessibility Resources

Taking a Proactive Stance

When you design your courses and create teaching materials for them, a proactive approach will ensure an equally valid educational experience for all your students, including those with undocumented disabilities. Your proactive approach will make your content accessible to all your learners by default, including those who:

• have a learning disability
• are in a location where they cannot play or her audio
• are not native English speakers and need written-word formats to support understanding
• have a physical disability (as listed below)
  • are blind or have low vision
  • have poor contrast vision
  • are deaf or hard of hearing
  • are colour-blind and cannot differentiate between certain colours
  • are using a device with a monochrome display
• have a form of cognitive disability

The Additional Resources section is a curated list of external supports for implementing accessible course design techniques, including digital documents, such as PowerPoint, Word, PDF, and Excel.

References

Excerpts from the following have been incorporated into the material listed above:

“Accessibility in Teaching and Learning” in Orientation to Teaching at the UofL Handbook (2021) by Joerdis Weilandt from the UofL Teaching Centre and is used under a  Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.