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