Accessibility Guides for Teachers

Making your digital materials accessible can help anyone with a documented disability, but it will also help everyone: people developing their English language skills, people using older technologies to access the internet, people in very loud or very quiet environments where speech is difficult or impossible to understand, for example.

Why Accessibility?

Video example of what using a screen reader is like

UDOIT Advantage

UDOIT (Pronounced “You Do It”) is a course-level accessibility checker, built to help you create more inclusive and usable course experiences for students in Canvas. UDOIT  works by scanning your entire course, identifying possible accessibility issues, and guiding you in repairing those issues using inclusive design principles.

(UDOIT stands for Universal Design Online Inspection Tool.)

UDOIT Advantage User Guides

Guides to Accessibility in Canvas

Canvas supports a number of screen-readers, and can be operated through keyboard shortcuts. Canvas conforms with the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WAI WCAG) 2.0 AA and Section 508 guidelines.

More information can be found at this Guide to Accessibility within Canvas.

• General Accessibility Guidelines

• Accessibility in Canvas - Duke University Teacher Guide

• Accessibility Posters

• Printable Tips for Accessible Design

• ALT-Tag Decision Tree - This decision tree describes how to use the alt attribute of the <img> element in various situations. For some types of images, there are alternative approaches, such as using CSS background images for decorative images or web fonts instead of images of text.

Making Documents Accessible

• Video: Top 7 Accessibility Features in Google Docs and Slides

Professional Development

• Quality Matters Accessibility & Usability Resource Site (Canvas Course)

• Designing for Accessibility at NCSSM - Self-paced Canvas course

• Create a personalized Accessibility Playlist to learn ways you can improve - you will be prompted to make a copy of a Google doc

• Dyslexia Empowerment in Schools

Accessibility Guides for Commonly Used Technology at NCSSM

Accessibility Guides for Technology Commonly Used at NCSSM

Closed Captioning

If you have a need for professional closed-captioned for videos or transcripts to videos, please contact NCSSM's Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Support Team (TLC).