2.2 Resources for Creating Accessible Courses and Documents

Overview of Resources

In this section, we are exploring practical ways to create an accessible course. Accessible documents will be covered in the next section. You will be using the resources Lane CC Accessibility Handbook and the Accessibility Checklist (both are below) to guide you through the process. You may want to download them and keep them on your computer for future reference.

• Lane CC Accessibility Handbook - Think of this document as your resource guide. Lookup a topic, such as PowerPoints, and then follow step-by-step directions for creating accessible PPTs. This guide covers both documents and standard Moodle resources.
  
  
• ID Services Accessibility Checklist - This checklist will assist you in ensuring that the material in your course is accessible. It is far easier to build accessibility into a course structure than it is to retrofit it. 
  
  
• The Moodle Accessibility Checker helps to identify common accessibility errors in text which could prevent users from accessing information. This is built into Moodle. 
  
  
• Ally is our Moodle plugin that runs accessibility checks on our imported documents such as Word, PPT or PDFs.