Earlier this afternoon, Brendan Guenther from Virtual University – Design and Technology, presented on web accessibility resources and standards for online courses in ANGEL or other LMS platforms like Drupal or WordPress. Brendan covered the topics of Universal Design, the scope for faculty, who helps our students, how to assess a course for accessibility, and basic techniques for compliance using HTML headers or alternate text for images. Listed below are some important links for the MSU community and Brendan’s PowerPoint as posted on MSU Google Apps.
RCPD – http://www.rcpd.msu.edu/
MSU Web Accessibility policy – http://webaccess.msu.edu/
vuDAT Breakfast Series Presentation from February 2009, including video how-to links: http://vudat.msu.edu/1541/
Automatic captions in YouTube – http://bit.ly/3TVGES