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General Information on Document UDL and Accessibility
(NOTE: look back on MOOC resources, Boston U UDL tutorial, and National Association UDL
General Best practices for electronic content that would apply to most docs/content in all it's forms.
1-pager
Unique forms of content like presentations (PowerPoint); tables and graphs; equations
- Best practices
In-class activities; ways of engagement
- info from DSO site
- inclusivity
Examples of presenting content in a variety of ways - visual, textual, and oral
- examples provided by Wamoe and CN-2084
Examples and guides on writing alt text and long descriptions
Examples for creating graphs/stem related content
- resources from NCUDL, PCC, resource via edX
Then get into specifics on formatting for each type of document (see below)
Templates
more info - lynda.com videos
20 minute mentor info
Common file types used and you may be starting from are microsoft work or powerpoint. Here are specific ways to create accessible materials. Then can convert these to pdf or copy past to myCourses with the formatting intact.
Microsoft Word
Design Best Practices
How to Format Accessibly: Step-by-step
Documents on Accessible Formatting
Video Tutorial on Accessible Formatting
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Templates
Microsoft PowerPoint
Design Best Practices
How to Format Accessibly
Documents on Accessible Formatting
Video Tutorial on Accessible Formatting
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Templates
Additional Document Types
| Excel | myCourses .html files | Web Content, in general | |
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| Excel 2010/13 (Windows) and 2011 (Mac) | myCourses Web P(D2L) | Identifying Web Accessibility Issues Creating Accessible Electronic Content
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Information on D2L Accessibility - VPAT and other important known things to share around accessibility with users.
MOOC opps