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Accessibility
If you are interested in learning more about accessibility, consider joining the Creating Accessible Documents Systemwide Training Program.
The UC Electronic Accessibility Committee offers numerous resources that may assist in making digital learning content more accessible.
- The Updated eCourse Accessibility Checklist (pdf) provides standards and best practices for eCourse accessibility, as well as additional guidance for creating accessible eCourses using Articulate Storyline 360
- The comprehensive Word-to-PDF and PDF Accessibility Guide (pdf) provides checklists and step-by-step guidance for manually reviewing and improving the accessibility of Word and PDF documents
- If you have access to LinkedIn Learning, the Creating Accessible PDFs course, taught by Chad Chelius, is highly recommended
- The Rich Text Editors: Maintaining Accessibility session from UC's 2022 Global Accessibility Awareness Day webinar, Accessibility Demystified, provides guidance on working accessibly in rich text editors, which are commonly used in learning management systems (LMSs), such as Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle
- Much of the session's guidance is also applicable to working in other content editing environments/programs, like Microsoft Word and Google Docs
- And the session's supplemental slide deck, Rich Text Editors: Maintaining Accessibility (pptx), opens by sharing guidance on working accessibly in PowerPoint
Tips for Better eLearning Accessibility
Accessibility can be challenging at times. Some concepts are more difficult to understand; others are more difficult to apply.
While we encourage you reference the resources above for a more comprehensive picture of accessibility requirements and how to achieve them, we also wanted to offer here some of the accessibility best practices that are easiest to understand and apply, so you can get a jump start on offering accessibility benefits to your audiences.