Making Online Courses Accessible to All Students

 
Our mission is for online coursework to be accessible to all students.

The definition of “accessible” used by the Office of Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Education regarding inaccessible IT is as follows:  

 

 
“Accessible” means a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use. The person with a disability must be able to obtain the information as fully, equally, and independently as a person without a disability.
Some tips to help make your online Blackboard Course includes the following:
  • Have your course media captioned/transcribed
  • Add the accessibility statement to your syllabus
  • Use accessible colors and design concepts to make course work readable to all
  • Create descriptive text for images
For more information visit our Accessibility page.  
 
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Questions? Contact Academic Technology by email (acadtech@pace.edu) or phone (212) 346-