About this Course
This course introduces among the basic ideas of accessibility and prepares learners for additional research in accessibility and inclusive design. Learners could have a possibility to discover the most important kinds of disabilities and associated assistive know-how and adaptive methods, probably the most salient contours of the authorized panorama, and the most important ideas that information common design and accessible content material creation. Highlight visitor movies will spotlight firsthand views on incapacity, in addition to subjects like incapacity etiquette, common design and common design for studying, lodging in larger training, campus accessibility coverage, and accessibility in a company setting.
Syllabus – What you’ll study from this course
WEEK
1
2 hours to finish
Course Orientation
You’ll develop into accustomed to the course, your classmates, and our studying surroundings. The orientation can even show you how to acquire the technical expertise required for the course.
2 hours to finish
Module 1: Understanding Incapacity and Assistive Expertise
This module gives you a fundamental understanding of among the main incapacity sorts (visible, listening to, motor, and cognitive), their foremost practical challenges, and among the associated assistive applied sciences. You’ll additionally get worthwhile firsthand views on disabilities and assistive know-how from folks with totally different disabilities, together with a spirited panel dialogue on incapacity etiquette from a staff of incapacity specialists.
WEEK
2
3 hours to finish
Module 2: The Authorized Panorama and the Office
On this module, you’ll develop a fundamental understanding of among the key laws that impacts accessibility. From the office perspective, you’ll have a possibility to discover some insightful firsthand occupation-specific views from an online developer, a media specialist, an educational designer, and a pc science teacher. Lastly, you’ll get an insider’s view on lodging from a staff of lodging specialists who deal with doc conversion, captioning, audio description, accessible doc design, and testing lodging.
WEEK
3
2 hours to finish
Module 3: Common Design
This module gives you a fundamental understanding of the seven ideas of common design and the roots of common design in structure. You’ll find out how common design could be utilized in a studying context by means of Common Design for Studying (UDL) and its inclusive design practices. Video interviews with acknowledged specialists within the area will spotlight insightful IT views on common design together with larger ed views on Common Design for Studying.
WEEK
4
6 hours to finish
Module 4: Accessible Digital Supplies
This module gives you an introduction to among the main accessibility issues that apply to frequent digital codecs like HTML, MS Phrase, PDF, and PowerPoint. You’ll additionally study among the key accessibility issues for multimedia, together with areas like captioning and complicated photographs. Useful demos and hands-on actions gives you a clearer thought of how one can make your digital content material extra accessible.
