Resources to Improve Course Accessibility
Video Resources
This video series reviews five quick tips for making a syllabus accessible: using headings, changing layout tables, writing descriptive link text, formatting text, and creating lists. These tips are easy to implement and can make a big difference in the accessibility of your syllabus. Each part of the following video series shows how to accomplish the quick tips in both Microsoft Word and Google Docs.
General Course Accessibility
The Accessibility Checklist supports faculty and instructional staff who create, modify, and/or use digital course materials that are hosted in any online platform. Developing and utilizing online materials that are accessibly designed is an important step in ensuring that students can make the most out of the content.
Pope Tech Resources
Pope Tech is an easy to use, interactive Canvas tool that provides instructors with accurate web accessibility testing for courses when creating and editing content. Pope Tech can scan while building course pages and/or check a full Canvas course.
The Pope Tech Reference Guide and Glossary offers information on how to run the Pope Tech accessibility checker in Canvas. Pope Tech only checks content created within a Canvas course. The accessibility tool does not check the accessibility of linked or uploaded content (files, slides, etc.).
The Checking Canvas Accessibility with Pope Tech presentation outlines the differences between Pope Tech’s Accessibility Dashboard and Accessibility Guide.
Accessibility and Universal Design
- Collaborative Note-Taking in the College Classroom (Google Site)
- Collaborative Note-Taking in the College Classroom (PDF)
- Peer Note-Taking Guide for Students (PDF)
- Mini-Webinar on Note-Taking Approaches
The Collaborative Note-Taking in the College Classroom guide includes information about three approaches to note-taking: collaborative notes, guided notes, and peer notes. The guide offers steps for deciding which note-taking method will work best in a particular class or educational setting.
PDF Remediation
The PDF Accessibility Guide provides information on how to source accessible documents and various tasks for making PDFs accessible.
Fall 2024 and Beyond
