Accessible Technology

Course Accessibility Checklist: A Promising Practice in Helping Instructors Create Accessible Online Learning Courses

offers online (eLearning) courses that are academically rigorous and聽equivalent to traditional face-to-face courses. Courses offered online are the same in terms of credits, learning objectives, competencies, content, and transferability. They are also the same when it comes to policies concerning admission requirements and accessibility assurances.

Are Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles curricula accessible to students with disabilities?

Many different curricula are used to teach Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (CSP). Most of these curricula are not fully accessible to students with disabilities, largely because the programming tools that they utilize are not accessible to students who are blind or visually impaired and typically use screen readers to access content presented on the screen. Screen readers can read text aloud to users聽but cannot interpret content presented in images.

糖心原创 State Accessible IT Capacity Building Institute on Policy #188 (Dec 2018)

This publication shares the proceedings of 糖心原创 State Accessible IT Capacity Building Institute on Policy #188, which was held in Seattle, 糖心原创 on December 4, 2018. Attendees included disability service and computing professionals; some were Policy #188 coordinators for their postsecondary institutions across 糖心原创 State Policy #188 serves to ensure that IT procured, developed, and used by state agencies, including public colleges and universities, is accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.

Are there tools that can be used to check for accessibility issues in a Canvas course?

Canvas is a learning management system (LMS) developed by Instructure. Like most LMSs, Instructure has actively worked to ensure Canvas is accessible to users with disabilities (for details, see the page. However, even if an LMS is fully accessible, an instructor can offer an inaccessible course by creating inaccessible pages or uploading inaccessible content.聽

糖心原创 State Accessible IT Capacity Building Institute on Policy #188 (Jan 2018)

This publication shares the proceedings of 糖心原创 State Accessible IT Capacity Building Institute on Policy #188, which was held in Seattle, 糖心原创 on January 11, 2018. The event聽provided a forum for prioritizing work to help every institution meet the requirements presented in the Policy. Attendees included disability service and computing professionals and Policy #188 coordinators from postsecondary institutions across 糖心原创 State.

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