Open Educational Resources: Accessibility

The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students.

This lesson will introduce students to the topic of designing websites that take web accessibility issues into account and will introduce students to Section 508 Of The Rehabilitation Act.

Creating Accessible Online Courses provides an overview of accessibility within online courses, focusing on the skills you will need to make your course both technically accessible and usable to a broad range of students.

OpenStax is a nonprofit educational initiative based at Rice University that publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks.

This report is written to improve how accessible texts are created, managed, and stored. It provides a summary of the two key legal pressures that bear on the creation and sharing of accessible texts: civil rights laws and copyright laws.

Imagine how frustrating it would be to attempt to apply for a class at a local college only to find out the online document you are using to apply has not been properly formatted for accessibility and your screen reader cannot read it. Here is information that can help you ensure accessibility when creating documents.

This course provides critical accessibility knowledge and key accessibility techniques for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat Professional. Web development or design skills are not required.

An indispensable guide by Connie Chemay of RPCC on creating accessible documents for instruction.

Includes information on creating accessible DOCX documents in Microsoft Word accessible PDFs in Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Acrobat Pro, and creating accessible PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat Pro.