Accessibility Online
Introduction
Students with disabilities must be prepared for college studies if they are to succeed in postsecondary education. Parents, faculty and staff all play a pivotal role in the promotion of preparedness and inclusion in postsecondary education. The information found on this page will help you better understand the issues that impact students with disabilities, understand the disability-services process at UNT, and give you access to resources that will help ODA students in your online courses.
- UNT Office of Disability Accommodation Home Page
- How ODA Students Request Accomodation
- Instructor and ODA Student Obligations for Accomodation (Scroll down to professor's section)
- Language to include in your syllabus for ODA Students
- Realize that ODA students may be shy about asking for accomodation
- Legal Basis for ADA Accomodation
A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education
Resources for Making your Content More Accessible to ODA Students
- How to Create Appropriate Alternate Text for Images
- How to Create Accessible Word Documents
- How to Create Accessible PowerPoint Documents
- How to Create Accessible PDF documents
- How to Create Accessible Tables
- Convert image-based PDFs into text-based Word Documents
- Intro to Closed Captioning for Video
- YouTube Closed Captioning Instructions
- Free Captioning Software with Instructions
- Blackboard Learn Screen Reader Guide for ODA Students
Publisher Accessibility Information
Below are links to major publishers with information on the accessibilty of their content.