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  • What is Digital Accessibility?

    • 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. 

    • Digital Accessibility 101

      A recording of the Professional Services Lunch & Learn session, that took place in December 2024. John Seamons and Cat Mclean from TELT, go through some of the basic things staff need to be aware of, the legislation that we are adhering to, and tools you can use to make your content more accessible. 

    •   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. 

  • Supporting Students

  • Accessibility Checklist

    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. 

    • 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. 

    • 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.

    • Download this checklist and use it against your teaching materials to find out if your content meet minimum accessibility requirements. 

  • Convert a File using Sensus Access

    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.

    • Click on the link to convert a document using the SensusAccess service.

    • There is a also a dedicated QMplus area that provides access to training materials for the SensusAccess service.  These materials have been provided by SensusAccess themselves. You can access the SensusAccess QMplus area here.

  • Captions and Transcription in QMplus Media

    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.

  • Accessibility, Copyright, and Online Reading Lists

    • Chantal Tucker - Online Reading Lists coordinator

      Video chapters

      00:20 - Library Resources on QMplus
      03:31 - Electronic Resources Accessibility
      11:12 - Reading Lists (Talis Aspire) in QMplus
      12:34 - Print Resources Accessibility
      15:41 - Copyright Requirements
      21:19 - Copyright Compliance Resources
      24:46 - Using Talis Aspire (Reading Lists)

  • Other Accessibility Resources