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From: Shuttlesworth, Rachel
Date: Oct 25, 2011 8:27PM

Hi, all.

We have been asked to develop a plan to make all of our online materials accessible, including all of the readings, documents, etc. in the learning management system. I appreciate that we will need someone who knows the subject matter to adequately describe graphics and we will have that, but my question is even more basic:

If you were starting from a few thousand online classes filled with documents like powerpoints, PDFs, Word documents, html or other files that is mostly text with some images, how would you go about making them accessible? Where would we find a checklist or some other steps letting us know what all we need to do?

Any advice, resources, ideas are most welcome. BTW, We are sending several folks to the Accessing Higher Ground conference in November to try to get as prepared as we can for this endeavor. I hope some of you will be there!

Thanks,
Rachel

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Dr. Rachel Shuttlesworth Thompson
Director, Emerging Technologies and Research, Center for Instructional Technology
University of Alabama
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