Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported LicenseCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License C REATING A CCESSIBLE L EARNING R ESOURCES By Paul Gillary

S UMMARY AND LEARNING OBJECTIVES This workshop will teach you how to create accessible learning resources. Understand why it’s important to create accessible resources for teaching and learning. Learn how to create your own accessible resources.

W HAT IS ACCESSIBILITY ? Accessibility refers to the extent to which a product, website, device or documents can be used by people of all abilities and disabilities. Websites Documents(docx, pptx, xlsx, pdf…) Phones Buildings Transport Computers

W HAT IS ACCESSIBILITY ? Accessibility is: ‘....removing barriers to participation and engagement in online experiences’ ‘and the degree to which someone can access an online resource regardless of their disability, technology or environment’ (Seale, 2014)

W HY CREATE ACCESSIBLE DOCUMENTS It is important to create accessible documents so that we do not disadvantage students with different capabilities. Many hearing and visually impaired students attend colleges and university and do the same courses as students with no impairments. Many visually impaired people use assistive technologies like screen readers to read or listen to documents. Therefore the documents must be correctly formatted. Hearing impaired students will quite often rely on subtitles/captioning, lecture transcripts and even sign language to understand the lectures they attend. However, not everyone provides these resources.

W HY IS A CCESSIBILITY I MPORTANT ? Equality Act 2010 Disability Discrimination Act 1995 Employment Education Premises Transport

U NIVERSITY P ROGRAMME R EGULATIONS 6.19 All websites and web applications developed or acquired for use by King’s staff, students and stakeholders must meet the W3C guidelines to AA standard and the King’s coding standards…. (p. 191) Academic Regulations concerning students Academic governance and management regulations Library Services and Information Technology Services regulations

D ISABILITY A DVISORY S ERVICE ? 27,646 Students 2,202 Students disclosed a disability Many of these students are receiving adjustments or support to assist in their ability to study at their full potential.

D ISABILITIES AT K ING ’ S This includes but is not limited to: dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit disorder epilepsy, diabetes, Crohn’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome physical mobility impairments which are not restricted to wheelchair users but include conditions such as repetitive strain injuries hearing impairments visual impairments autistic spectrum disorders such as Asperger syndrome mental health difficulties such as anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia