Digital Accessibility and Learning Materials
Topic outline
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This short interactive course aims to equip you with an understanding of how digital accessibility impacts you as a staff member, influences your daily work tasks, and affects your colleagues and students.
By the end of the course, you should:
- be able to describe how digital accessibility applies to working practices,
- have a basic awareness of the legal obligations of your organisation,
- understand that everyone has a level of responsibility to ensure the organisation is working towards compliance.
The course should take approximately 20 minutes to complete.
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We have a dedicated Teams site for students and staff with an interest in Digital Accessibility. We share resources, discuss best practices, link to training material, and collaborate on initiatives to ensure all digital content and tools are accessible to all.
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Learn more about neurodiversity and discover how you can support and guide students on their unique learning journeys, plus explore learning opportunities for staff to enhance their understanding and practices.
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Learn about the QMUL guidelines for supporting students provided by the Disability and Dyslexia Service (DDS).
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This section includes an interactive activity that will help you identify some of the most common accessibility mistakes we make while creating teaching materials. You will also find a downloadable checklist that will help you make your new and existing content accessible.
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Make sure you have been through the Book in the previous section before attempting this activity. Go through this activity and try to identify accessibility issues with the content provided (a word document, a powerpoint file, a video and a course area). This activity has captions and audio narration, have a headphone ready if you wish to listen to the narration.
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Make sure you have been through the Book in the previous section before attempting this activity. Go through this activity and try to identify accessibility issues with the content provided (a word document, a powerpoint file and a video).
Each page has one question and you can get the feedback instantly. You may want to refer to the Checklist below before attempting the activity as the questions are related to the issues highlighted in the Checklist.
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Download this checklist and use it against your teaching materials to find out if your content meet minimum accessibility requirements.
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SensusAccess is a self-service portal for educational institutions. It allows students, faculties and staff to automatically convert documents into a range of alternate media including audio books (MP3 and DAISY), e-books (EPUB, EPUB3 and Mobi) and digital Braille.
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QMplus Media is our institutional YouTube. Staff and students can upload video and audio to QMplus Media and then share it with others in a variety of ways. People worry about the accessibility of video and perhaps steer clear because of these worries. Video can, however, be very accessible...particularly to those who may have issues with text.
QMplus Media provides a variety of features that can help you to create accessible learning materials.
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QMplus Media allows you to have captions auto-generated for any videos that you upload after 2024. For any videos which were uploaded before 2024 you will need to manually request that captions are added.
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QMplus Media allows you to have captions auto-generated for any videos that you upload. It is almost certain that you will have to tidy the captions up to improve their accuracy
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