General Tips

• Use live-caption features in LMS for synchronous meetings.
• Create/use transcripts for audio/video media.
• Make your content navigable by the keyboard.
• Use bold /italic for emphasis not just color.
• Use sufficient color contrast.
• No blinking or flashing content.
• Make sure any materials you incorporate from other sources are accessible (videos/podcasts that already have transcripts and closed captioning).
  
• Don't use underline - it looks like a link.
• Use an accessibility checker throughout course content development. It is always easier
  

• Use Microsoft Wrd to create an accessible document and then convert to .pdf. Powerpoint and Word have accessibility checkers.

• Use templates, not blank slide, to start out with an accessibly designed doc or presentation.

General Links

SUNY Web/Digital Content Accessibility Standards pgs. 15-18.

Universal Design for Learning Principles

Hopkins Universal Design for Learning Initiative (HUDL Initiative)

SUNY Accessibility for All

FACT2 Online Accessibility 

ADA Requirements for Effective Communication

OSCQR standards

OSCQR 17-28
OSCQR-34-37

Tools/Resources

Make your pdfs accessible.

Use Blackboard Ally, if you have it, to check accessibility.

Auto Closed Captioning with Google Slides

• Google Slide Auto Close Captioning
• Present slides with captions
• 6 ways to make the most of Google slides closed captioning
• Live Captioning Without A Budget