Digital Accessibility

CITL team members can provide guidance and support on content remediation to meet the new Title II Americans with Disabilities Act digital accessibility requirements.

Digital accessibility (specifically, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA) is required to ensure that course materials are accessible to all students and to ensure equitable access to education.

What this means for your teaching

All digital course content you provide to your students, whether developed by you or obtained from third parties, like the publisher, must meet the new accessibility standards. Course content includes everything you share with your students, including

  • word processing documents
  • PowerPoint presentations
  • spreadsheets
  • PDFs
  • videos
  • audio content
  • Canvas content such as pages and quizzes

Digital Accessibility 101 (DA 101) Training Courses

The DA 101 courses are the cornerstone of our efforts to teach you how to remediate and create from scratch content that meets accessibility standards. There are variations of this course intended for different audiences. The course authors quote 3 hours to complete. We’re finding our early adopters are taking between 3 and 6 hours. Don’t try to get through it in a day; there is a great deal of great information in the course.

  • Instructional Staff/Canvas Content Creators Course: This course is required for all instructional staff and is best suited for people who work with Canvas. Topics covered include Accessibility in Canvas, MS Office, PDFs, Qualtrics, videos, images, and emails. It also provides information from the Disability Resource Center. Enroll in the Instructional Staff Course.
  • Non-Instructional Staff Course: This course is best suited for staff who do not need to create Canvas content. It covers accessibility in MS Office, PDFs, Qualtrics, videos, images, and emails, and provides information from HR regarding employee accommodation needs. Enroll in the Non-instructional Staff Course.

The Bite-Sized Remediation Guide (BSRG)

CITL has launched the Bite-Sized Remediation Guide course in Canvas. We’re offering the BSRG as a scaffolded remediation structure, focused on allowing instructors to concentrate on one issue family each week. You don’t have to follow this structure, but we hope many of you find it useful. Each week’s topic will be announced in a Message of the Day campus announcement on Tuesday, alongside the release of the Title II Tuesday video.

  • The Bite-Sized Remediation Guide (BSRG) is now available. It can be viewed without enrollment for users who can access our Canvas sub-account.
  • A “Join this Course” button is present so users can enroll in the course directly from the course.
  • Enroll using the Self-Enrollment link.

Contact Us

Please contact us at citl@uwsp.edu with any questions on accessibility remediation of course content.