Thursdays April 20, 27, May 4 and 11
Times: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 Eastern
Series moderators: Hadi Rangin from the University of Washington and Norm Coombs from EASI
Canvas Thursday April 20
Desire2Learn Thursday April 27
Blackboard Thursday May 4
Moodle Thursday May 11
While we all recognize the need to make Learning Management Systems accessible for students with disabilities as required by federal and state legislation, it is equally important to make them accessible for both staff and faculty with disabilities. Course content is usually created by content experts who may know very little about designing their content to be accessible and who become overwhelmed with this new obligation. Learning Management Systems must find ways to help these faculty. Presenters will talk both about the accessibility features in their system and share what is being done to help non-technical faculty create accessible content. Besidesides making PDF, Word and HTML documents accessible, Faculty will need tools to assist them in providing captions for videos, transcriptions for audio and video description of video action.