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

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.

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

Making Documents Accessible

Zoom

Making Zoom meetings more accessible - Yale University

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).

Additional Professional Development


Accessibility Information for Commonly Used Technology at NCSSM

Accessibility Guides for Technology Commonly Used at NCSSM