Wiki Page, WCC DE Faculty Handbook: Creating Accessible Content-2

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2016-08-20T18:33:09-06:00

At its basic level, accessibility is about making your course and its content usable by students with specific disabilities. However, accessibility is really about making a course more usable for all students by creating a clear course structure using multiple modalities.

There have been some very high profile legal cases recently involving schools who have neglected to make courses accessible, and while we should work on accessibility out of a desire to make our courses stronger for all students, the need to avoid legal action is also real and compelling. You can read more about some of these recent cases at http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news

@ONE and the OEI recently offered a five-part webinar series on course accessibility led by Jayme Johnson, Director of Accessibility and User Experience for the OEI.

Creating Accessible PDFs with MS Word and Acrobat Pro @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9yszeopMZU

Your Online Course Usability: 10 Ways to Kick It Up a Notch @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTogzQ9bsTY

Evaluating Web Content for Accessibility @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrbiqsqtStY

Creating Accessible Online Presentations @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrqIm31TE40

Captioning Considerations @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOjOr1ionic

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Need help with creating captions for your YouTube videos? Find help here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJGiS83eQLk

"Add Subtitles and Close Captions" (a handout from Google)

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The @One group also offers a free, self-paced course on making instructional videos, including captioning. You can access this course @ http://www.onefortraining.org/node/723