1. Universally Designed Course Materials
The ACCESS Project
Jesse Hausler, UDL/Accessibility Coordinator

2. What Makes a Document Universally Designed?
Accessibility
Structure Tags
Alternative Text for non-text elements
Contrast
Search-ability
Select-ability for Copy and Paste
Bookmarks or an Interactive TOC
Text to Speech capability
Questions to Ask
Which of these are important to you as a reader? As a professor?

3. Content, Structure, and Presentation
The actual information you are providing in a document. This can include Text, Images, Videos, or Multimedia.
Structure
The organization of content is structure. This includes headings, lists, tables, emphasis, etc.
Presentation
One can add style rules to structural elements to give documents a particular appearance.

4. Images and Alt Text
Alternative text for images should describe the meaning - based on the it’s context
Ice Cream Manufacturer
Girl Scouts of America
My Niece's Blog
Diversity Website
Adding alternative text descriptions to images allows users to understand their significance even when the images cannot be seen.
Alt text should describe the meaning of an image rather than its appearance

5. Let’s Make Our Own PDFs Microsoft Word as the Native Editor
Print to PDF
Save As PDF
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Adobe Acrobat Plugin for PDF
Which of these do you use?

6. Make Your Own PDF Results
Accessibility
Search-Ability
Copy/Paste
Bookmarks
Text to Speech
Print to PDF
Print to PDF
Accessibility - NO
Search-ability - YES
Select-ability for Copy and Paste - YES
Bookmarks or a linkable TOC - NO
Text to Speech capability - YES
Save AS PDF
Accessibility - Somewhat
Adobe PDF Plugin
Bookmarks or a linkable TOC - YES
Save As PDF
Adobe PDF Plugin

7. Let’s Look at Scanned PDFs
Scanned PDF with Optical Character Recognition
Scanned PDF with OCR and Tags added
Do you make your own PDFs? Do you have the library make them? Teaching or Admin Assistants? Do you know if any of these processes are involved?

8. Scanned PDF Results Search-Ability Text to Speech Accessibility
Copy/Paste
Bookmarks
Text to Speech
Scanned PDF
Scanned PDF
-Accessibility - NO
-Search-ability – NO
-Select-ability for Copy and Paste - NO
-Bookmarks or a linkable TOC - NO
-Text to Speech capability – NO
Scanned PDF with OCR
-Search-ability – YES
-Select-ability for Copy and Paste - YES
-Text to Speech capability – YES
Add Tags to Document
-Accessibility - Somewhat
-Text to Speech capability - YES
Scanned PDF with OCR
OCR and Tags

9. UDL and Multimedia Transcripts Captions Descriptive Audio
A written or text-based record of dictated or recorded speech. May contain additional relevant information, such as descriptions or comments.
Captions
A transcript is timed to display with the video track, it displays on screen as a caption.
Descriptive Audio
The narration of key visual elements in a video or multimedia product.

10. Captioning AutoMatic Sync CaptionTube for YouTube videos MAGpie
Upload audio track and transcript
CaptionTube for YouTube videos
Type directly into the application, as the video plays
MAGpie
Works with most major video formats

11. UDL Modules Teaching Technology (course materials)
Microsoft Word
Styles and Headings
Images
Adobe PDF
HTML
E-Text

12. Thank you! The ACCESS Project accessproject@colostate.edu