Overview
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This is a web-based course on accessibility and universal design. It provides an overview of the history of accessibility laws, similarities and differences between universal design for learning (UDL) and universal design for instruction (UDI), and an infographic with full and text versions.
Purpose
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The web-based course is a road map for designing and developing with accessibility and universal design features. Instructional designers benefit from a quick review of the topic, a review of three eLearning tools, and a takeaway rubric as a template.
Process
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I designed this course with an accordion and a tab interaction, a self-reflection video hosted on YouTube with closed captions, and Word and PowerPoint accessible templates. I used Word and PowerPoint’s own accessibility checker feature. I also embedded an infographic with both full and text versions that review three tools’ accessibility features. In the end, I listed four artifacts for further reading for learners to discover more about accessibility and universal design in a self-directed learning approach. With a total of six sections, it is a complete web-based course that can be distributed at will as I licensed it under a Creative Commons license.
My role included:
- Designer and thinker to ideate and bring to life the entire course
- Creating the content
- Video recording and editing
- Web developer
Tools
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- Word Accessibility Checker
- PowerPoint Accessibility Checker
- YouTube
- Piktochart
- WordPress
- WebAIM
- HTML5