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A&H Module Lead & Teaching Admin #3: Digital Accessibility

Please find below the links, presentation, resources and discussion from the 11th October 2023 session on Digital Accessibility.

UCL Accessibility Policy

UCL Accessibility Hub – UCL policy, advice, resources and guidance to support both staff and students.

UCL Accessibility Fundamentals – basic guidance to improve everyday accessibility when creating resources.

Ben Watson presents on Digital Accessibility

Link to Ben Watson’s PowerPoint presentation slides.

Ben Watson and Abbi Shaw in conversation: Use of Reading List, accommodating students with SoRA, generative and assistive AI discussion.

UCL Reading List – supported by the Library.

Colour Contrast Checker – a really useful resource for checking accessibility of text on backgrounds.

The video Ben mentions on using GenAI to support non-academic tasks.

Forthcoming Digital Skills Development sessions – including multimedia, podcasting, and more, and, most relevant here, creating accessible Word documents.

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Digital Accessibility: A&H Module Lead & Teaching Admin Session #2

1. UCL Head of Digital Accessibility Ben Watson’s presentation on Digital Accessibility, what it is and why it’s important, the concept of microkindnesses, minimum actions we can take to create accessible digital content first time, and the Accessibility Report in Moodle.

[Zoom recording, captioned, 38 minutes]

 

2. UCL Accessibility Policy, PDFs, Transcripts: a brief roundup [5 min].

 

UCL Digital Accessibility Training, Support and Resources

Courses provided by ISD Digital Skills Development on how to create accessible content and courses on assistive technology.

UCL Guides to Creating Accessible Content – from email, to live sessions, documents and more.

UCL Short Course on Digital Accessibility – 3-hour, Moodle-based, self-paced course.

Further Resources

InYerFace – a gamification of the most appalling aspects of the inaccessible web. (mentioned in webinar)

Simplifying Content Accessibility – Kent University webinar by Huw Alexander (mentioned in roundup video)

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative – extensive open access collection of standards, guidelines and resources.