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Accessible Education

Characteristics of Accessible Education

Takes into consideration a variety of student characteristics, including ethnicity, race, abilities, disabilities, age, gender, language abilities, and preferred learning style
Does not compromise academic rigor
Is a proactive and inclusive way of teaching and designing courses and curricula
Removes barriers to learning before the barriers can have an effect
Reduces the need for specialized accommodations
Identifies and clearly expresses essential course content
Is consistent with universally-recognized principles of good teaching

From Introduction to Accessible Education from the Council of Ontario Universities.

Resources for Accessible Education

Academic Institutions

Government Resources

Other Resources

Guidance for Accessible Education

Accessible Documents

Accessible documents have:

readable text that is not an image,
tags to indicate a heading structure,
alternate text for images,
a set reading order,
a set language,
and use lists, tables, and hyperlinks wisely.

What is Alternative Text?

Alternative text helps screen readers recognize and describe images used on websites. An image without alternative text cannot be described in context.

Use alternative text when including an image in your guide.
Alternative text is read by screen readers in place of images.
Enter accurate text that avoids terminology such as "image of..." or "link to...".
See WebAIM's section on alternative text.

See more from the University of Washington's Overview of Accessible Documents page.

Word Documents

PDFs

Presentations

Apps for Assistive Education

Apps for Reading

Apps for Low Vision or Blindness

Apps for Hearing

Tools for Use in Teaching and Instruction

ADA Website Accessibility Toolkit
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and, if the government entities receive federal funding, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 generally require that state and local governments provide qualified individuals with disabilities equal access to their programs, services, or activities unless doing so would fundamentally alter the nature of their programs, services, or activities or would impose an undue burden
Mozilla Developer Network Accessibility Guide
MDN Web Docs (previously known as MDN — the Mozilla Developer Network) is an evolving learning platform for Web technologies and the software that powers the Web, including standards and guidelines.
Section 508 Compliance
On January 18, 2017, the U.S. Access Board published a final rule updating accessibility requirements for information and communication technology (ICT) covered by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Section 255 of the Communications Act.
WCAG 2.1
This page provides a paraphrased summary of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1.
WebAIM's Alternative Text Guide
Alternative text provides a textual alternative to non-text content in web pages.
WebAIM: Contrast Checker
Use this color contrast checker to ensure that your digital or printable materials have enough contrast to be read by a vision-impaired individual.

For more web-based tools, see the Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies from Educause.

Presentations and Design

Design Toolkit Thinking for Educators
This toolkit contains the process and methods of design along with the Designer’s Workbook, adapted specifically for the context of K-12 education. It offers new ways to be intentional and collaborative when designing, and empowers educators to create impactful solutions.
Google Fonts
Google's font catalog places typography front and center, inviting users to explore, sort, and test fonts for use in more than 135 languages.
Librarian Design Share
Librarian Design Share is intended as a community of creativity for librarians, people who work in libraries, and library students. So contribute, comment, and share your designs!
The Professional Association for Design: Education and Design
AIGA supports education throughout the arc of a designer’s career, including special programs for educators, a group critical to advancing the profession.
Slides Carnival
Offers beautiful slide templates to make your presentation stand out.
Smore
Creates newsletters and digital handouts with analytics and mailing capabilities.
Identifont
Since its launch in November 2000 Identifont has become the largest independent directory of digital fonts on the Internet. Additional tools to help you find fonts with particular characteristics, or for specific applications.

Image Sharing

Image Editing

For more web-based tools, see the Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies from Educause.

Discussion

For more web-based tools, see the Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies from Educause.

Microsoft Sway
Create newsletters, portfolios, presentations, blogs, and more for distribution via email, links, embeds, and social media.
Office 365 Portal
The suite of MS tools including Teams, Notebook, Sway, Forms, and more.
Panopto
Panopto is a service that enables easy audio/video/screen capture, streaming, and sharing. While traditionally categorized as a lecture capture service, Panopto can do much more. Panopto simplifies the complex task of recording lectures and presenting pre-recorded lecture information. This site has instructions for how to sign up through Hopkins.
Qualtrics
Qualtrics is the world's leading enterprise survey company, used by 1,300 colleges and universities worldwide, including every major university in the United States. Qualtrics makes it easy to create and distribute engaging surveys. This site has instructions for how to sign up through Hopkins.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is web-based presentation software that allows users to create and share interactive multimedia slideshows. VoiceThread presentations are used to showcase audio, video, images, and documents while allowing users to comment on them in a variety of different ways. The result is a digital conversation that can be easily shared with individuals, groups, and/or embedded into different websites. This site has instructions for how to sign up through Hopkins.
Zoom
Zoom is a cloud-hosted, online collaboration platform enabling real-time communication to support course delivery, training, meetings, open houses/webinars, office hours, remote support, and ad-hoc collaborations. Zoom will enable all JHED users to host a virtual meeting anywhere in the world from any device. This site has instructions for how to sign up through Hopkins.

Digital Pinboards and Whiteboards

Lesson Planning and Authoring

For more web-based tools, see the Typology of Free Web-based Learning Technologies from Educause.

Hopkins Teaching and Learning Resources

University and Medicine Learning Platforms and Schedules

University and Medicine Templates

JHMI Downloads

Instructional Design Courses and Training

Free Online ID Courses
Paid Online ID Courses

The resources listed here largely come from this post from Eduflow.org.

Introduction to Instructional Systems Design is a 3-4 hour course providing the fundamentals of designing and developing course materials
Learning to Teach Online from Coursera pushes you to make better use of educational technology in fully online or blended classrooms
Instructional Design Foundations and Applications from Coursera is a 4-week course addressing the major concepts of instructional systems design, major theories of learning, and instructional design models
e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age is a Coursera course focusing on educational technology
Learning Design Basics: Pedagogy into Practice from OpenLearning is an interactive course on how to design and develop programs using the constructivist theory of education
Gamification from Coursera examines applying game principles to learning
Motivating Students to Learn from Global Text Project focuses on factors that contribute to student motivation and inspiration
Instructional Design Video Series fis a series of 39 YouTube videos from Dr. Ray Pastore, covering a host of ID theories and concepts

The resources listed here largely come from this post from Eduflow.org.

Instructional Design for e-Learning provides an introduction and overview of ID
Introduction to Instructional Design: Online Course Creation introduces you to pedagogy and subject matter experts
Instructional Design Essentials: Models of ID is a LinkedIn Learning course directed at the business world
Instructional Design Mastery Series from the Online Learning Consortium presents a workshop focused on course design
The IDOLS Courses Academy is a full training program built for instructional designers and online learning
Introduction to Instructional Design from the Harvard Extension School gives a broad overview to instructional design
Instructional Designer Certificate Program from the Online Learning Consortium provides a certificate for anyone participating in online learning
Instructional Design Certificate from the International Society for Educational Technology provides best practices along with templates and other helpful guides for course design
Library Juice Academy offers a number of classes in instructional design, assessment, and user experience

Icon Collections

The following sites provide free and fee-based icons in a variety of formats.