New Publication on Creating More Accessible and Welcoming Cyberlearning Projects

DO-IT's newest publication features a list of guidelines and examples that Cyberlearning project leaders can apply UD to make their products and activities more inclusive. The brochure, Equal Access: How to Broaden Participation in Cyberlearning Projects to Ensure Access to People with Disabilities, includes questions along each step of the process, including Planning, Policies, Recruitment, and Evaluation; Information Resources and Technology; Instructor Preparation; and Presentations, Exhibits, and Activities. The questions included help the reader to consider a variety of universal design aspects they may otherwise forget to address, such as the following:

• Is all content available in accessibly designed electronic formats (e.g., documents with text descriptions for content within images and using structured headings, PDFs that are text-based)?
• Are people with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, students with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, young and old students, and other groups represented on your staff in numbers proportional to those of the whole campus or community?
• Do staff members know how to respond to requests for disability-related accommodations, such as sign language interpreters?

Learn more about AccessCyberlearning and how it promotes accessible online learning practices online at the AccessCyberlearning website.