Making digital instructional content accessible means ensuring that students with disabilities can perceive, navigate, and engage with learning materials. These lessons on accessibility fundamentals will help educators quickly learn what they need to create more accessible documents, videos, and images.
Intended Users
This resource can be used by:
- Individual educators who want to strengthen their accessibility skills.
- Education agencies—such as states or school districts—interested in offering large-scale professional learning.
- Educator preparation programs seeking to integrate accessibility practices into general and special education curricula.
Completing This Course
Each lesson in this course follows a consistent layout:
- Why the skill matters
- Learning objectives
- Tips for success
- A use-case example
- A shareable resource
- A quiz to check your understanding
You should plan for 10–20 minutes to complete each lesson, or about 2 1/2 hours total.
Certificate of Completion
A certificate of completion is available for this module. To earn this certificate, you must score 100% on all of the quizzes in this module (you have unlimited retakes) and complete the feedback survey.
More Courses Coming Soon
Over the next several months, we will publish additional learning materials. Some of these will be new accessibility skills like creating alternative text for complex images. Others will be guides for creating accessible content in common tools like Google Docs. We will use the Inbox feature built into Canvas to announce new content.
Using and Adapting This Content
Credit-bearing agencies and training teams are free to use and adapt this resource in your own learning management systems under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Contact us with any questions.
Providing Feedback
Your feedback helps us improve. After you’ve tried one or more lesson, please take a moment to complete the short survey on the Feedback page. We greatly appreciate your time and insights.
Contact NCADEMI
If you have any questions about the course or have any trouble registering, please contact us.