Acerca de este curso: This course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is inclusive to students with a wide range of abilities, including students with disabilities. We cover effective practices to increase inclusion and avoid some of the common accessibility issues that can arise in an online course. In particular, Basics of Inclusive Design Online covers course organization, the accessibility of Microsoft Office and PDF documents, making course instruction pages accessible, captioning of videos, making images accessible, and designing for learning differences. We also discuss how inclusive course materials can help all students, including students without disabilities. This course will appeal to those who want both a broad overview of the range of accessibility considerations and also a step-by-step guide of how to check documents for accessibility, caption a video, or prepare course content for non-visual users. Course logo credit: "web accessibility word cloud" by Jill Wright (https://goo.gl/xyUoeU). Copyright - some rights remain. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Para quién es esta clase: Anyone interested in making their courses more accessible, from faculty designing their own courses to course designers, should find this class helpful. No specific prerequisites are needed although some knowledge of Learning Management Systems and Microsoft Office products will help you get the most out of this course.
Creada por: University of Colorado Boulder
Enseñado por: Emily Moore, Director of Research and Accessibility, PhET Interactive Simulations
Department of PhysicsEnseñado por: Howard Kramer, Accessibility Specialist
OITEnseñado por: Clayton Lewis, Professor
Department of Computer Science
| Nivel | Principiante |
| Idioma | English |
| Cómo aprobar | Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso. |
| Calificaciones del usuario |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Week 1: Introduction to Course, Demographics, Universal Design
Welcome to the first week of Basics of Inclusive Design! This module will review the structure and logistics of the course and then introduce the issues that affect course accessibility. The topic of course accessibility will include an interview with two students who use Assistive Technology to access digital material. The assignment will allow you to learn more about the issues that students with different backgrounds and abilities face when taking a course and for you to offer your own solutions for addressing the needs of students who may need special adaptations for accessing course material.
6 videos
- Vídeo: Introduction to Course Logistics
- Vídeo: Three Factors of Course Accessibility
- Vídeo: Demographics and Inclusive Design
- Vídeo: Student Perspectives
- Vídeo: Introduction to Universal Design with Sheryl Burgstahler
Calificado: Accessibility Challenges in Courses
SEMANA 2
Week 2: Accessible Documents
Following a review of online accessibility issues, in this week we will explain the steps to create and remediate course documents in MS Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe PDF documents. The assignment will provide you with an opportunity to apply these skills to actual documents.
4 videos
- Vídeo: Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
- Vídeo: Creating Accessible Adobe PDF Documents from Word
- Vídeo: Creating Accessible Microsoft Powerpoint Documents
Calificado: Fixing Accessibility Problems in Course Materials
SEMANA 3
Week 3: Complex Images, Tables, Graphs
Week 3 will focus on creating appropriate text alternatives for complex images and other more complex material, such as data tables and graphs. The assignment will provide you the opportunity to add alternate text to images.
3 videos
- Vídeo: Alternate Text for Images & Tables
- Vídeo: Describing Complex Images
Calificado: Adding alt text to images in a document
SEMANA 4
Week 4: Captioning
This week, we will introduce the topic of captioning, discuss its accessibility and Universal Design benefits and then provide step-by-step instruction for captioning videos using a variety of tools. The assignment will provide the opportunity to caption a video.
6 videos
- Vídeo: UD Benefits of Captioning
- Vídeo: DIY Captioning with Amara - part 1
- Vídeo: DIY Captioning with Amara - part 2
- Vídeo: Captioning with YouTube - part 1
- Vídeo: Captioning with YouTube - part 2
Calificado: Providing Captions for Videos
SEMANA 5
Week 5: Uncovered Topics, Resources & Review
This final week of the course will cover topics not covered in earlier lessons: keyboard accessibility, color contrast and the accessibility of Learning Management Systems (LMS). The assignment will ask you to use a resource we have covered and one discovered by you to address one of a number of accessibility scenarios.
4 videos
- Vídeo: Color Contrast
- Vídeo: Lecture: Interview on Learning Management Systems with Hadi Rangin
- Vídeo: Resources for Accessibility and Universal Design
Calificado: Additional Accessibility Challenges, and Additional Resources
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Great course! It really gives you the basics of inclusive design. Now I know where to look when I need more information. It is a great way to start if you are interested in accessibility issues. It gives you an idea on how much needs to be done.