Digital Accessibility and Inclusion
The resources below focus more on digital accessibility and inclusion in learning, but can be useful in a variety of contexts, including work related materials and activities.
Digital accessibility and inclusion imply ensuring that your content, activities and all their components:
- are accessible to all, including people with disabilities, learning differences, mental health conditions or other health conditions that may affect their learning or engagement with your materials and activities
- embrace diversity and
- make everyone feel welcome and valued, regardless of race, nationality, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, weight, caring responsibilities, social or financial background, access to technology, religion, etc.
Understanding digital accessibility
Learn more about different types of accessibility requirements to help yourself and others.
Accessible design
Most of the tips to make your content and activities more accessible improve everyone’s experience.
Variety and flexibility
Consider how to make your course more flexible for students with limited access to technology, caring responsibilities, and everyone else:
Representation and unconscious bias
Consider whether all students feel represented in your course and how your own unconscious bias might impact your teaching and teaching design:
- Unconscious bias
- Reflect diversity in your reading list
- Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat and Higher Ed by Russell McClain (YouTube, 11 mins)
- 7 Steps to Mitigating Unconscious Bias in Teaching and Learning (PDF)
- Multicultural Education Pavilion - Diversity, Equity, & Social Justice Education Resources
Inclusive design
Consider when designing your content and activities:
- Accessibility, Usability and Inclusion
- Inclusive design principles (Word)
- Inclusive writing guide
- Inclusive learning and teaching in higher education: a synthesis of research (Hockings, C., 2010)
- Inclusion guides for supporting students
- Twincly: A playful way to think about accessibility and inclusivity in online teaching
- Accessibility, inclusivity, universal design – notes from reading group
Inclusion resources
Guidance, events, networks: