Accessibility Course for Education

Accessibility Course for Education

Digital accessibility; inclusive and accessible educational resources

This Open Educational Resource (OER) provides instructors with basic introduction to digital accessibility and provide practical guidelines for complying with accessibility guidelines in educational content.

Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines.

This OER contains references to a variety of external resources (see “Relation”).

Arthur Lakes Library at the Colorado School of Mines

Publication: 5-2024

This course was developed under the Colorado School of Mines - Arthur Lakes Library’s Open Educational Resource grant from the Colorado Department of Higher Education.
Schaefer Madison, Turner Allyson, Bongiovanni Emily, Vuletich Seth, Odicino Alexander

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY 4.0)

This course is licensed under CC BY 4.0. by Emily Bongiovanni, Alexander Odicino, Seth Vuletich, Allyson Turner, and Madison Schaefer.

1. Annie Elainey. (2016, March 31). What is Accessibility? [CC] [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsMo7SOuB1c
2. Cueto, I. (2023, July 31). ‘Where the bats hung out’: How a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurtured a generation of blind innovators. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/28/the-cave-uc-berkeley-nurtured-generation-blind-innovators/
3. EME5250 FSU. (2020, April 13). Accessibility in OER [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcr7q2HJOA0
4. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. (n.d.). https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
5. Core principles of digital accessibility - Accessibility resources. (2023, September 21). Accessibility Resources. https://www.mines.edu/accessibility/core-principles-of-digital-accessibility/
6. Refreshable Braille displays. (n.d.). The American Foundation for the Blind. https://www.afb.org/node/16207/refreshable-braille-displays
7. Braille Printers. (n.d.). The American Foundation for the Blind. https://www.afb.org/blindness-and-low-vision/using-technology/assistive-technology-products/braille-printers
8. INDATAProject. (2018, January 18). Swell touch paper [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peg7L_8PHCc
9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdlRL__liTY
10. The Curb Ramps of Kalamazoo: Discovering our Unrecorded History | Independent Living Institute. (n.d.). https://www.independentliving.org/docs3/brown99a.html
11. PBLWorks. (2021, May 27). Curb cut [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_Rb86wiH4
12. TED. (2016, August 16). When we design for disability, we all benefit | Elise Roy [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2m97gPI70I
13. Pi. (2021, April 29). Curb cuts - 99% invisible. 99% Invisible. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/curb-cuts/transcript/

J Towell. (2011, October 23). Universal Design for Learning - and beyond! [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkBRm7-yJ30

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The course is universally applicable to instructors across all the world.