In 2021, the Kirwan Center curated a list of resources for ensuring accessibility in support of the sudden shift to remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Balancing Student Privacy and Accessibility | Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
Provides guidance on best practices for balancing student privacy and accessibility in an online environment.
| University of Florida
Provides guidance on tools for creating accessible content. Includes a link to a (UDOIT)
| The Chronicle of Higher Education
Flower Darby
Provides an overview of two frameworks for creating online or hybrid courses with an ethos of inclusion and equity embedded throughout: Universal Design Learning and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy.
| Utah State University
WAVE is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities.
| Khan Academy
tota11y helps visualize how your site performs with assistive technologies by providing a fun, interactive way to view accessibility issues.
| nfb.org
| National Federation of the Blind
Stephanie Flynt
Includes links to the NFB's as well as other useful resources.
| NFB Jernigan Institute
This downloadable resource aims to provide practical information on how to make HTML, PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents more accessible to blind users.
| Diverse
Sara Weissman
As colleges and universities hastily prepare to shift their courses online in response to the coronavirus, some students might welcome the chance to attend class at home in their pajamas. But for blind students, remote courses come with a host of new concerns and questions: Will online course platforms be compatible with their screen-reader technology? Will professors send readings as Word documents, which can be read with screen-reading software, or as scans, that cannot? What if there are images without alt text to explain what’s showing on the screen?
| CAST
National Center on Accessible Educational Materials at CAST, Inc.
- Outlines simple options for creating captioned videos, including captioning capabilities that are already built into several video editing applications.
- CAST also provides information on ensuring high-quality captioning, including resources that already have high-quality captioning, such as PBS and Khan Academy, .
| UMCP
- First Steps
- Instructor Resources for Accommodations Online
- Examples of Online Accommodation
