Faculty Resources
- Creating Accessible Word Documents
- Writing Audio Descriptions
- Foxit Remediation Guide
- Creating Accessible Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations
- Duarte’s 5 Steps to Making PowerPoints Accessible with Resources
- Video on 5 steps to Making PowerPoints Accessible
- How to Caption Videos: Free tools are available online, making it possible and easy to caption videos. Examples include:
- Writing Audio Descriptions
- Making PDFs Accessible: Turning an Image-Only PDF into a Real Text PDF with ABBYY FineReader 15
- How to create an override to extended quiz time in Moodle
- Zoom– Getting Started with Closed Captioning during Zoom meetings
- Zoom– Automatically Transcribe Cloud Recordings
- If you find that your video transcript or captions are automatically transcribed with errors, please contact Disability & Accessibility Services (DAS) staff. DAS will have your video captioned by a third-party captioning vendor and work with you to have the captioned video uploaded to Zoom or Moodle.
- Harvard Guide to Email Accessibility
- Instructions and Template for an Accessible Syllabus
- CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology)
- A nonprofit education research and development organization that created the Universal Design for Learning framework and UDL Guidelines, to make learning more inclusive.
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) on Campus
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework that guides the design of learning, goals, materials, methods, and assessments as well as the policies surrounding these curricular elements with the diversity of learners in mind. UDL emphasizes accessibility from the outset, including the connection to creating and procuring course materials that are accessible to all students.
- Kansas Accessibility Resource Network
- Kansas Accessibility Resource Network has 10 free online, on-demand courses in accessibility for any student, staff, or faculty in higher education. The courses range from Documents, Videos, Face-to-Face and Conference Presentations, Basic Assistive Technology and Web Accessibility to Impairment Awareness!
- Information Accessibility in Learning Project
- A collection of helpful resources regarding text accessibility, image accessibility, audio accessibility, and video accessibility.
- National Clearinghouse of Rehabilitation Training Materials
- Provides resources or quick guides and brief tutorial videos for creating accessible material.
- The Faculty Room
- A website created by the DO-IT Project (Disabilities, Opportunities, Inter-networking, and Technology) at the University of Washington. The site includes accommodation strategies, faculty resources, and much more to assist in making classroom environments accessible for students with disabilities.
- Open Educational Resources (OER) and Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$)
- Information on free and low-cost textbook and courseware options: what they are, how to find them, and programs to support their adoption.