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What you'll learn

Summarize what Inclusive or Universal Design means in the context of designing an online course

Recognize the potential challenges and accessibility issues that can arise in an online course

Describe the impact of inclusive course materials on all students, highlighting the benefits for learners without disabilities

Skills you'll gain

Technical Writing

Visual Impairment Education

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Document Management

Learning Management Systems

Disabilities

Education Software and Technology

There are 5 modules in this course

In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities. This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users. Course logo credit: "web accessibility word cloud" by Jill Wright (https://goo.gl/xyUoeU). Copyright - some rights remain. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Week 2: Accessible Documents

Week 3: Complex Images, Tables, Graphs

Week 4: Captioning

Week 5: Uncovered Topics, Resources & Review