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ONLINE COURSE ACCESSIBILITY CHECKLIST 1. MATERIALSANDMEDIA

¨Arevideos,media,andPowerPointsembeddedintotheLMS?

n Embeddingvideos,media,andPowerPointshelpsmanagethelimitedfilestoragecapacity.Italsohelpsparticipantswithlimitedbandwidthbyensuringthattheydonotneedtolinkouttomaterialstoviewthem.

¨Arethecourseelementsdesignedformultimodalviewing/accesstoaccommodatevariancesinlearningandphysicalabilities?

n Materialsshouldbepresentedinnumerousways,asappropriate,includingbutnotlimitedto:providing“alt”tagdescriptionsintheeventimageswon’torcan’tload;providingscriptsforvideoandaudiofiles,andprovidingallmaterialindownloadablecoursepackets.

2. ACTIVITIESANDASSIGNMENTS

¨Canparticipantscompleteactivitiesandassignmentswithoutadditionalequipmentotherthantheircomputerormobiledevice?

n Diversityofonlinelearnersextendstotheirfinancialandtechnologicalresources.Therefore,courseprovidersshoulddesigncourseactivitiesandassignmentstolimitthemandatoryuseofanyonlinetoolortechnologicaldevicethatmaynotbeavailableinallareas,ortoallparticipants.Theseincludebutarenotlimitedtomicrophones,cameras,videos,andapplications.

¨CanparticipantssatisfactorilysubmitassignmentsandcompleteassessmentsusingnootherprogrambuttheLMS?

n Participantsmaynothaveaccesstopopularwordprocessingorpresentationapplicationstocompletetheirwork,includingMicrosoftWordandPowerPoint.

¨Areparticipantsgiventheopportunitytosubmitassignmentsinmorethanoneway?

n Assignmentsthatrequiredocumentsubmissionshouldbedesignedtoincludetheoptiontowriteresponsesusingfreeformtextboxes.Thisincreasesaccessibilityforparticipantswhocannotusewordprocessingsoftwareforanyreason.

3. OFFLINEMATERIALS

¨Doeseachcontentpagehaveadownloadable,accessiblePDFhandoutintheModulePacket?

n Everycontentpage,assignment,anddiscussionshouldhaveanoffline-readyversionofthecoursecontentavailabletoparticipants,andpresentedasaPDFinthepacket.Thisissothatparticipantswithinfrequentaccesstotheinternetcaninteractwithcoursematerialsoffline.

¨Areallhandoutscompiledintoapacket,andavailableoneachModule’sintroductionpage?

n Thepacketisacompilationofeveryhandout,presentation,assignment,anddiscussionprompttheparticipantwillseeinthatweek’smodule.Quizzesdonotneedtobeincludedinthispacket,tokeepstudentsfromhavingearlyaccesstoquizquestions.