Where & When

Location: Online.

Date: 24/05/2022

Time: 11:00am-12:00pm

Attending this session: Please book for this session in advance.

The session is for staff and students from the University of Birmingham.

Abstract:

Whatever your discipline and approach to digital accessibility, it is best to be clear and upfront with your students about what to expect when engaging with their learning materials online. By providing a School, Discipline or Module level accessibility statement you can highlight some of your discipline specific teaching methods, any accessibility issues that are likely to arise from these teaching methods, any known issues which currently exist and what steps are being taken to remedy them and who to contact to report an issue or request an alternative format.

In this workshop we will share examples of Accessibility Statements and support you in writing your own module level statement to be shared with students.

Catch up:

Recording from the session (captions have been corrected for this recording)

Accessibility Statement Principles

Student facing statements should be inclusive, accessible, and relevant
Should be brief
Should give an overview of resources used online and, in the classroom
Should give an overview of how content is organised on Canvas
Should highlight what you will do to provide accessible resources
Should highlight any areas which may fall short in terms of accessibility and what steps you will make to mitigate them
Should indicate who to contact or how to raise an issue
Should be clearly signposted from the programme or module area on Canvas
Could provide a brief overview of how the programme or module will be taught

Accessibility Statement Examples

This document provides information on writing discipline specific accessibility statements and includes example statements: Discipline Specific Accessibility Statements

Biosciences example module Accessibility Statement (kindly shared by Juliet Coates): How does the ECAPS module run