Digital Accessibility: Teaching Tools

Disability and Access Services (DAS) provide MIT staff, faculty and students with online resources to help ensure that students with disabilities can access course materials and participate in class.

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Faculty, Staff, or Postdoc Graduate Student Undergraduate Student

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Accessibility

Document Creation and Conversion

MIT offers various resources to assist in converting pre-existing documents into accessible formats, creating audio files, and converting static documents to editable text.

SensusAccess is a self-service document conversion tool available to all MIT students, staff, and faculty.

Accessible Document Information

Create and verify PDF accessibility (Adobe)

Perform an accessibility check in Adobe Acrobat (Adobe)

Use the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Office products (Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities)

Microsoft Word: Creating Accessible Documents (WebAIM)

Mark Up Headings in Microsoft Word (NC State)

Make your document or presentation more accessible (Google)

Mark Up Headings in Google Docs (Luis Perez)

Creating accessible documents, spreadsheets, or presentations with Pages, Numbers, or Keynote (Apple Support)

Slide Decks and Accessibility

Getting started with Presentation Accessibility (AEM Center)

PowerPoint Accessibility (WebAIM)

Making Presentations Accessible for All (W3C)

Use the Accessibility Checker in Microsoft Office Products (Texas Governor’s Committee on People with Disabilities )

Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities (Microsoft)

Creating accessible documents, spreadsheets, or presentations with Pages, Numbers, or Keynote (Apple Support)

How to create an accessible Google Slide Deck (University of Minnesota)

Automatic captions in Google Slides (Google).

Note: Automatic captions do not meet ADA standards, and do not meet the access requirements for D/deaf and hard of hearing students who request communication access. Ways to get your content captioned.

Online Conferencing Tools

Getting Started with Closed Captioning

Closed Captioning with Zoom Rooms

Automatic Transcription of Zoom Meetings

Webex Web App Accessibility Features

IS&T Knowledge Base article on Webex Meeting Recording and Transcription

Polling and Response Tools

In addition to utilizing chat functions in remote conferencing platforms like Zoom, you may be using additional tools that allow you to ask questions and get responses from students.

Poll Everywhere has given thought to accessibility in designing their product (Poll Everywhere Accessibility Standards). If you use Poll Everywhere as part of a presentation, read aloud the question and response options in addition to showing them in writing, and share the link to the poll in the web conference chat.

Google Forms (University of Minnesota)

Chat and Communication Tools

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