What kind of toolkits are there to guide me through this process? | The Teaching & Learning Centre

This BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit is an excellent resources and provides tips on accessibility throughout the authoring process outlining best practices of how to incorporate multimedia materials, resource template considerations and test a sample chapter for keyboard accessibility, any instructional content and reading navigation order. It addresses principles of universal design and provides best practices related to:

• Organizing your content
• Tagging images
• Embedding weblinks
• Incorporating multimedia
• Making formulas accessible
• Ensuring font size and contrast ration meet accessibility criteria

At the end of this guide, a simple checklist document is available for a quick accessibility overview of a given open textbook.

UBC has also created a step-by-step guide for accessibility in OERs. You can find their guide here: http://open.ubc.ca/teach/oer-accessibility-toolkit/

This page is a derivative of openetext.onlinelearning.utoronto.ca/accessibility used under CC BY