Ensure you materials are accessible to all students:
Refer to the tab Shift Course to Online Teaching on the Libraries COVID-19 Updates and Resources guide regarding copyright issues.
Submit materials via Course Reserves.
Please note, there is no access to physical materials or the scanning of physical materials held by the Libraries as all locations are closed (to staff, too). Only electronic or streaming materials may be acquired at this time.
For new requests for film, please include a note saying they need closed captioning.
PDFs should at least be scanned at 300 ppi resolution and greyscale (for black and white) in order to guarantee better OCR results. If documents require color, then these docs should be scanned as RGB documents.
Check out this FAQ on video captioning.
HOW TO: Updating Closed Captions in Zoom
Ensure the accessibility of non-HTML content:
Microsoft Word documents,
PowerPoint presentations,
Adobe Flash content.
If you cannot make it accessible, consider using HTML instead or, at the very least, provide an accessible alternative. PDF documents should also include a series of tags to make it more accessible. A tagged PDF file looks the same, but it is almost always more accessible to a person using a screen reader. ("Principles of Accessible Design." WebAIM, Utah State University, 2020, https://webaim.org/intro/#principles.)
Student Disability Services (StudentDisability@newschool.edu) can help source accessible materials directly from publishers.
Install the accessibility toolbar, Read&Write for Google Chrome.
Questions? Please Ask Us (libhelp@newschool.edu).