Have you ever wondered if your course material (handouts, charts, and other documents) are accessible to all students?  Have you thought about how the visual presentation of these documents may present barriers to student learning?

In honour of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and in collaboration with Accessibility Services (Blundon Centre), CITL’s Learning Technology Coaches would like to invite Memorial’s instructional staff to participate in an accessibility document review process.

Using best practices as outlined by WebAIM, coaches will use accessibility checklists for Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents to review documents and highlight items that can be adjusted to make it more accessible.  These checklists focus on the accessible use of headings, appropriate inclusion of tables, images and other formatting features.

If you would like to have any of your learning material reviewed against these checklists, you are invited to drop by the Teaching and Learning Exchange (ED 1001) between 10am and 4pm  OR you can send your document(s) to ltc_citl@mun.ca and we will conduct the review and return a findings report along with recommendations on how to improve the document.