Prepare Accessible Course Material

Key targets for making materials accessible, including:

• Formatting
• Images and labelling alternative text
• Structure
• Colour
• Links

A ten point basic accessibility checklist.

Preparation of accessible course material - a 4 slide summary highlighting:

• Microsoft Accessibility Fundamentals
• Preparation of Theoretical Content
• Accessability Checking
• InDesign and PDF Accessibility Tools

It also links to a more detailed course by Latvia University - also available here.

This article shows links on how to create content with Microsoft 365 in a way that enables greater accessibility.

In this module you will:

• Learn how to create accessible content with the Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook apps.
• Explore the built-in accessibility tools and features of each of these apps.

This article highlights Google's efforts to forefront accessibility in their Android and Chrome operating syatems, their apps and their devices.

ARASAAC offers graphic and material resources to facilitate communication and cognitive accessibility to all people who, due to different factors (autism, intellectual disability, lack of language, elderly people, etc.), present serious difficulties in these areas, which hinder their inclusion in any area of ​​daily life.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse at no cost, and without needing to ask permission. Unlike traditionally copyrighted resources, OER have been licensed by their authors to permit no-cost access, reuse, adaptation, and redistribution. They may also exist in the public domain, free of all copyright restrictions. Access free OERs here!

A repository of images, sounds and videos which are free to use.

Details of a number of Book Reader apps, including:

•  The BRUNO Book reader which helps to read electronic and printed materials. The device creates audio materials which can be listened to later, and also offers magnified text following.
• OrCam MyEye – A wearable AI device that reads printed and digital text aloud.
• Dyslexia Assistive OCR Device – Scans text and converts it into speech, with an integrated dictionary for better comprehension.
• Text-to-Speech (TTS) Software – Reads digital text aloud, useful for ebooks and web pages.
• Audiobooks & Digital TTS Books – Allow users to listen to books instead of reading.
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Tools – Convert printed text into digital speech.

Microsoft creates technology that is accessible to people around the world of all ages and abilities. This contains links to their youtube channel with many videos on accessibility.

A 55 slide set of guidelines towards creating an accessible curriculum, by experts from the University of Latvia.

A 28 slide presentation on developing accessible training materials produced by the University of Latvia.