Accessibility for Online Courses

With teaching online courses, please remember that Online/Web Accessibility is an essential consideration when building your course.  Please see the resources below to guide you in the process:

• Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)
• ITS Video and Audio Captioning and Transcription
• Zoom Teleconferencing Accessibility Features
  • Zoom Teleconferencing Captions - Requires Captionist (CART/Type Well) in meeting
  • Note: Screen Sharing is not accessible to screen readers for the blind.
• Microsoft Teams - Accessibility Support
  • Note: Whiteboard and Screen Sharing is not accessible to screen readers for the blind. This content should be verbally described by the presenter.
  • Desktop version has "automatic live captions" which are not 100% accurate, but are useful.
• 20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course - U of Washington DO-IT Center

Tools to make it work:

• Zoom - Conferencing software
• Microsoft Teams - Has automatic closed captioning on desktop version.
  • NOTE: Automatic captions are NOT 100% accurate. Speak slowly and precisely to improve accuracy.
• Microsoft Office Lens - Turn your phone into a scanner
  • Apple iOS
  • Google Android
• Adobe Scan - Turn your phone into a scanner, with character recognition.
• TextHelp EquatIO Free for Teachers - Need help with creating accessible math? Equatio offers free Teacher Accounts of their software.