What is Accessible Learning?
Various state and federal laws have requirements aimed at making education accessible to as many people as possible. Higher education has ethical and legal obligations to ensure that programs and services are accessible to all learners and employees.
To learn more about accessible learning, please check out the resources and tutorials below:
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Ensuring an accessible and pleasant experience to all users, regardless of disability, is a key focus of Canvas. The Canvas platform was built using the most modern HTML and CSS technologies, and is committed to W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative and Section 508 guidelines.
UDOIT - Canvas Course Accessibility Checker
Canvas Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT)
The Accessibility Checker tool finds accessibility issues in your Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. The tool generates a report of issues that could make your content difficult for people with disabilities to understand. Accessibility Checker also explains why you should fix these issues and how to fix them.
The accessibility checking tools in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC — Accessibility Checker (Full Check) and the Make Accessible action wizard — can identify many issues in PDF documents that may be in conflict with Adobe’s interpretations of the accessibility guidelines referenced in the application and its documentation. These tools do not check documents for all accessibility criteria, including those in referenced guidelines, and Adobe does not warrant that documents comply with any specific guidelines or regulations.
Key best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations can also help you make your presentations accessible to people with disabilities. This topic describes why you should use these best practices and gives you step-by-step instructions for following them.
This topic gives you step-by-step instructions to make your email messages accessible to people with disabilities.
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