Accessibility is a mindset and an ongoing process of planning, designing, and adapting our teaching around the needs of our students.聽The resources below will help you design learning environments and experiences that better serve all students. By thinking about accessibility and inclusion in the design phase, we reduce the need to retrofit courses and remediate materials, which may reduce requests for specific accommodations.
Policies
Syllabus disability access statement
Include the Disability Resources for Students (DRS) syllabus statement to provide notice of access for your course(s) and ensure students are connected to the resources available to implement academic accommodations.
- Tri Campus DRS disability access
Teaching practices
Accessible and inclusive learning environments are essential for meeting the needs of students with disabilities and, ultimately, better serve all students. The 91探花Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) offers instructors a number of different resources to help faculty as they set about creating inclusive, accessible learning experiences.
- – Provides teaching strategies for both general and specific classroom situations to help make teaching accessible to students with physical, psychological, or learning disabilities.
- – Provides actions that instructors can take to begin improving the accessibility of their digital course materials.
- – Provides a host of resources for creating meaningful and accessible learning for all students, including students with disabilities, first-generation students, veteran students, and other groups of students.
- – Provides an overview of Universal Design for Learning principles, which instructors can use to design learning environments that are accessible to the greatest extent possible.
Tutorials and tools
Canvas model courses
The 91探花course examples below demonstrate a wide range of evidence-based, online teaching practices using UW-supported teaching and learning tools.
Courses, tips, strategies
- – This 91探花CTL course includes guidance on enhancing the accessibility of your online and hybrid teaching.
- DO-IT Universal Design of Instruction – Find additional resources, tips, and examples of accessible instruction.
- – A course from 91探花Bothell, covering fundamental topics of accessibility.
Accessible technologies
- 鈥� The Ally tool integrates seamlessly with the UW鈥檚 Canvas learning management system to automatically check course content and files uploaded by instructors for accessibility issues. Use this tool to support you in making your Canvas courses accessible.
- 鈥� Service that provides document remediation. Please note the limitations of this service for producing accessible documents for DRS accommodations.
- Accessible technology training opportunities
- Making digital content accessible