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This summary is a beginners guide for teachers on how to make their lessons more inclusive by improving the accessibility of their learning materials and applying Universal Design for Learning principles.
This guide has been created to help you quickly assess and improve the accessibility of your materials. We recommend that you complete Microsoft's Accessibility Fundaments course. It gives a more in-depth look at the challenges of creating accessible learning and teaching materials.
Accessible instructional materials are specialized or alternative formats of textbooks and other instructional materials. Examples are Braille, audio, large print, and digital text. Some students with disabilities need accessible instructional materials to access the same curriculum as other students.
This article looks at: Why it is important to create accessible teaching and learning content. Provides links to guidance on how to make content more accessible, including tips on how to put that guidance into practice.
Educational materials and technologies are “accessible” to people with disabilities if they are able to “acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services” as people who do not have disabilities.
This guide focuses on ensuring that your materials are accessible and perceptible to a range of individuals with perception differences (e.g. differences in seeing, hearing, and reading information). In addition to reviewing your materials for their accessibility, be sure to review them for inclusive teaching practices .
Assistive technologies. How technology can help with reading, writing and organisation. FIND OUT MORE. Creating accessible educational recordings. Help to improve the quality and accessibility of your educational recordings. READ THE GUIDANCE. Accessible and inclusive Canvas courses.
