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ADA Compliance
ADA Compliance
Accessibility applies to the idea that our materials need to be accessible for everyone, and may require further modifications to make them so for people with physical, cognitive, or learning disabilities.
There are four federal laws which require accessibility of all digital resources. Some states, including Illinois, also have laws mandating the accessibility of digital resources for institutions of higher education.
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
- 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) (2010)
- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (2018)
- Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act (IITAA 2.0) (2018)
- Sample of Case laws - extra resources
These laws mostly point to the current WCAG accessibility standards.
To Care and Comply: Accessibility of Online Course Content
Accessibility or Accommodation?
Accessibility or Accommodation?
Need to consider
Need to consider
- Websites
- internal
- external
- Purchasing
- software
- textbooks
- Instructional materials
- Word/Pages
- PowerPoint/Keynote
- Excel/Numbers
- Audio
- captions/transcripts
- Video
- captions/transcripts/audio descriptions
- PDF
- Scanned by instructor
- Scanned by library
- produced as PDF in various ways
Our Materials
Our Materials
Our approach Year 1
Our approach Year 1
- Tip of the week
- Meetings with Deans, departments, individuals
- Training Campus-wide, departments, and external
- Develop courses for accessibility badge
- Student workers
Our approach in Year 2
Our approach in Year 2
- Work with offices such as HR, Financial Aid
- Help the library make e-reserves accessible
- Office accessibility with physical spaces and files they use
- New video player tools for LMS
- Accessible html editor for websites
Overall Universal Design for Learning
Overall Universal Design for Learning
- Perceivable
- Operable
- Understandable
- Robust
Oftentimes in order to help all learners, we need to rethink how we offer materials, how we rely on one form of assessment, and offer several ways to engage in material making them accessible for all.
ADA Compliance for Online Course Design
Key Takeaways from the report:
- Lessons learned from campuses nationwide have informed an approach to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act during the process of online course design.
- Providing multiple ways for students to gain knowledge, demonstrate knowledge, and interact goes a long way toward making a course accessible to all students, including those with disabilities.
- Accessibility efforts benefit not only students with disabilities but also students who are English language learners and those working in noisy or quiet environments.
Further opportunities to learn.
Further opportunities to learn.
This October 16-18 we will be hosting our 2nd Digital Accessibility for Educators Workshop. $749 for ION member $949 non-ION members.
We also offer a 4 course program for a Digital Accessibility for Educators Certificate through ION.
Screen Readers with PDFs
Screen Readers with PDFs
Screen Reader with PDF scanned as an image
Audio Description
Audio Description
We often think of providing closed captions or written transcriptions for students who can't hear. But audio descriptions are need for the students who can hear, but not see. Disney's Frozen clip provides a fun example of audio description.
Frozen: Trailer with Audio Description
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