Other Good Resources

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) - Strategies, guidelines, resources from the W3C to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities.
WebAIM - Includes an introductory tutorial, articles for audiences of all levels of expertise, a blog, and an active discussion list.
VPAT - Request a VPAT when evaluating vendor accessibility.
The Impact of AI in Advancing Accessibility for Learners with Disabilities - AI technology tools hold remarkable promise for providing more accessible, equitable, and inclusive learning experiences for students with disabilities.

Tips and Checklists

Faculty Guide: Teaching & Interacting with Students with Disabilities - This guide from Texas A&M presents examples of potential limitations as well as accommodations for students with various disabilities, including learning, visual, hearing, physical, and mental health.
Do’s and dont’s on designing for accessibility - There are several different posters in this series that promote best practices for making sites and materials accessible to screen reader users, low vision users, users with physical or motor disabilities, deaf or hard of hearing users, dyslexic users, autistic spectrum users, and users with anxiety or aphasia.
Accessible Data Visualizations - This resources contains 10 dos and don'ts to keep in mind when designing accessible data visualizations, along with helpful explanations and examples.
Web Accessibility for Designers - This infographic highlights a few important principles of accessible design. Note: A text version can be found under the infographic.
Accessibility Matrix - The Pitt Online team of instructional designers and technologists identified nine common instructional accessibility tasks and ranked them according to the potential benefit provided to the students and the level of effort required to implement.
Easy Checks - A First Review of Web Accessibility - These checks cover just a few accessibility issues and are designed to be quick and easy, rather than definitive.
Top Recommendations to Increase the Accessibility & Inclusiveness of Your Presentation - This interactive blog post presents 12 tips presenters can use to create more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible presentation environments.

Accessibility Awareness

To Care & Comply: Accessibility of Online Course Content (Video 11:14) - Stories from students whose education is impacted by inaccessible web content and ways faculty and staff can improve course materials to make course content more accessible.
Web Accessibility Perspectives (Video 7:36) - Describes the impact of accessibility, as well as the benefits for everyone in a variety of situations.
Assistive Technology - Click through the YouTube playlist to view demonstration videos of how various assistive technology works including screen readers, screen magnification, refreshable braille, speech recognition, word prediction, and alternative keyboards and mice.
Inclusive: A Microsoft design toolkit - A comprehensive resource made to be retrofitted to your design team’s goals.
Demo: Accessibile University - A helpful teaching and demonstration tool is the Accessible University 4.0 site, created by U of Washington’s DO-IT Center and updated by Duke University. There are two links that display the same site with and without accessibility improvements that are very apparent to users of assistive technology, as well as an explaination of the accessibility enhancements that make all the difference.

Legal Front

New Rule for Title II of the ADA - The final rule has specific requirements about how to ensure that web content and mobile applications (apps) are accessible to people with disabilities.
State of Digital Accessibility Report: 2024-2025 - Based on a survey of more than 1,400 professionals in the U.S. and Europe, the Sixth Annual Digital Accessibility Report provides comprehensive insight on how organizations across industries are approaching accessibility, the challenges they’re facing, and the results they’re achieving.
Higher Ed Accessibility Lawsuits, Complaints, and Settlements - A list of higher educational institutions that have faced liability for inaccessible web content and technologies.

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