General Accommodations Available By Type of Disability: 

While actual approved accommodations are determined by careful review of your file, we provide, in general, the following accommodations:

Blind or Visually Impaired

  • Large-print reading materials (e.g., books, handouts, signs, and equipment labels). Large print is typically 16 to 18 point bold type, depending on the typeface used
  • front-row or preferential classroom seating in well-lit areas with full view of the presenter and visual aids
  • computers with screen and text enlargers, or speech output
  • the use of readers or scribes for exams
  • extended time for exams and assignments

Wheelchair

  • Accessible desks in the classrooms
  • Depending upon functional limitations, additional accommodations may include extended time on tests, note takers

Mental Health disability:

  • note takers
  • early notification of deadlines for projects, exams, and assignments
  • flexible attendance requirements
  • encouraging and validating academic and work environments
  • availability of a quiet work or testing area

Deaf or Hard of Hearing:

  • interpreters
  • sound amplification systems
  • note takers
  • real-time captioning

Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Use of audio recorder in class, with professor permission
  • Depending upon functional limitations, additional accommodations may include approval for things such as extended time on tests and note takers

Learning Disability:

  •  note takers
  • recorded class sessions, with professor permission
  • extended exam time and a quiet testing location
  • books on tape and e-books
  • alternative evaluation methods
  • reinforcing directions verbally

 ADD/ADHD:

  • note takers
  • tutors or other organizational supports
  • reduced course loads
  • preferential seating near the front of a class or meeting
  • copies of class or meeting notes
  • private, quiet work and testing rooms
  • recorded lectures and/or books
  • printed material on audiotape or in electronic format
  • written direction

 

Ways to Make Your Class and Documents Accessible

Web Accessibility Checklist

Web-Accessibility-Checklist.docx
Make sure your website is accessible by using this checklist.  Visit other helpful links that are included in this document.

Designing for Screen Reader Compatibility

Designing-for-Screen-Reader-Compatibility.docx 
Understand how a screen reader works and the best practices for making Web sites, documents, and PDF files accessible for people that are blind or visually-impaired.

Large Print Basics

Large-Print-Basics.docx 
Guidelines to follow when creating a document or Web page.  Here's a large print document example.

Microsoft Word Accessibility

Microsoft-Word-Accessibility.docx 
Make content in Microsoft Word accessible.  Feel free to follow this accessible class syllabus example.

PDF Accessibility

PDF-Accessibility.docx 
Make content in Adobe PDF accessible.  You will be shown how to best convert Word documents to PDF. *Note: Though PDF files can be made accessible, it is best to post a Word document version of the file alongside the PDF whenever possible.  A Word document is more usable and reliable than a PDF document when read by a screen reader.

PowerPoint Accessibility

Powerpoint-Accessibility.docx 
Make content in Microsoft PowerPoint accessible.

Recommended Websites:

Online College Learning for Students with Disabilities
http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/online-college-learning-for-students-with-disabilities

WebAIM – Web Accessibility in Mind
http://www.webaim.org

Section 508 Checklist
http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist

WCAG 2.0 Checklist
http://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist

Website Accessibility Links

Authoring Tools | Content and Structure | Flash | Forms | Frames | Images | JavaScript | Keyboard Accessibility | Presentation and Styles | Tables | Video Captions

Authoring Tools:

Dreamweaver
http://webaim.org/techniques/dreamweaver

Content and Structure:

Creating Semantic Structure
http://webaim.org/techniques/semanticstructure

Designing for Screen Reader Compatibility
http://webaim.org/techniques/screenreader

Links and Hypertext
http://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext

Site Searches, Indexes, and Site Maps
http://webaim.org/techniques/sitetools

“Skip Navigation” Links
http://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav

Flash:

Creating Accessible Flash Content
http://webaim.org/techniques/flash

Forms:

Creating Accessible Forms
http://webaim.org/techniques/forms

Usable and Accessible Form Validation and Error Recovery
http://webaim.org/techniques/formvalidation

Frames:

Creating Accessible Frames
http://webaim.org/techniques/frames

Images:

Creating Accessible Images
http://webaim.org/techniques/images

Appropriate Use of Alternative Text
http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext

JavaScript:

Creating Accessible JavaScript
http://webaim.org/techniques/javascript

Accessibility of AJAX Applications
http://webaim.org/techniques/ajax

Accessibility of Rich Internet Applications
http://webaim.org/techniques/aria

Keyboard Accessibility:

Keyboard Accessibility
http://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard

Presentation and Styles:

Creating Accessible CSS
http://webaim.org/techniques/css

CSS in Action: Invisible Content Just for Screen Reader Users
http://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent

Fonts
http://webaim.org/techniques/fonts

Tables

Creating Accessible Tables
http://webaim.org/techniques/tables

Video Captions

Web Captioning Overview
http://webaim.org/techniques/captions

MAGpie
http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines/magpie

Additional Accessibility Information:

25 Ways to Make your Website Accessible

http://www.webhostingsearch.com/articles/25-ways-to-make-your-site-more-accessible.php

Web Accessibility Resources

http://sc.edu/scatp/documents/WebResourcesHandout_March2014.doc