Defining Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
Material Type: Reading
An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
Material Type: Reading
The NSCC Edition is a revised version of the BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. The goal of this book is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students.
Material Type: Textbook
With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience. You will have an opportunity to experience barriers firsthand, then experience that content with the barriers removed, developing a practical understanding of web accessibility.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Textbook
This activity guides students through the evaluation of a website that they have created to see if it is accessible for users with disabilities. Students will simulate a number of different disabilities (e.g. visual impairments, color blindness, auditory impairments, motor impairments) to see if their website is accessible; they will also use automated W3 and WAVE tools to evaluate their sites. Students will consider the needs of users with disabilities by creating a persona and scenario of a user with disabilities interacting with their site. Finally, students will write up recommendations to change their site and implement the changes. Comments Although this activity can be used in isolation, it is intended to be part of a series guiding students towards the creation of a front-end of a website. The series (all published as OER) consist of: a) Needfinding b) Personas, Scenarios and Storyboards c) Front-end Website Design and Development d) Accessibility Evaluation
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment
Checklist of best practices for creating accessible resources.The Accessibility Checklist is adapted from BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit, CC-BY 4.0 International License.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Resources to help TAACCCT grantees learn how best to design, evaluate, and remediate their Open Educational Resources (OER) to maximize the accessibility of the learning resources for all.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
With much of the world gone digital, learning to create documents that are accessible to everyone is becoming a necessary skill. Intended for a general audience, this free resource reviews a wide range of document authoring applications, including the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and tests them to ensure they do not contain potential barriers. Learn how to create accessible word processed documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and PDF documents, among others, so they are accessible to everyone.
Material Type: Textbook
A set of questions to evaluate educational materials for conformance to accessibility best practices.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
A brief video in easy-to-understand language that provides an overview of accessibility features to look for in digital learning materials.
Material Type: Lecture
Accessibility in Online Learning
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Reading
This page provides an overview of classroom tools for making math content more accessible with supports such as text to speech for reading math expressions aloud, handwriting recognition, sonification of graphs and more.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
The goal of this accessibility toolkit, 2nd edition, is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook - one that is free and accessible for all students. This is a collaboration between BCcampus, Camosun College, and CAPER-BC.
Material Type: Full Course
A set of questions that can be used to evaluate the accessibility of materials considered for procurement.
Material Type: Reading
A free online course to assist all educators, including those new to the profession, in improving the accessibility of the materials their students use for learning...
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
All students can fully participate in science. To that end, we are sharing some of the resources, materials, and activities that we use with our students who are visually impaired.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
Information on tools for making math notation more accesible to learners.
Material Type: Module
This resource explains what accessibility means, why it’s important, who requires it, and how educational agencies can meet their responsibilities.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy