An Accessible Course: So Easy Your Grandma Could Do It!
Channel: NWeLearn
Date: 2019-12-09

Presenters: Crystal Neilson 
Date: Friday, October 18 • 8:50am - 9:50am

If you’re like most faculty, you’ve heard that you need to make your courses accessible. Surely, that’s a task more formidable than helping your elderly relative set up a new smartphone. Or is it? In this session, attendees will learn several key concepts to make the creation of digitally accessible content second nature.

Attendees will be able to
• Explain the basic, underlying principles involved with digital accessibility.
• Identify how to make images accessible, including special cases such as infographics.
• Identify how to make links accessible, including the use of image links and the concept of frontloading.
• Identify how to make headings accessible, including how to avoid empty headings and presentational attributes.