Learn More Series: Strategies for Improving Digital Accessibility

When people think about accessibility, they often think about physical components first. Ramps for building entrances, curb cuts, crosswalks with audio cues, and signs with both text and braille are all examples of how design and technology have shifted to make it easier for people with disabilities to navigate the physical world. Though less obvious, digital accessibility is just as important. Scanned images of text, uncaptioned videos, inaccessible hyperlinks, and other elements of digital spaces may cause users with vision, hearing, cognitive, or motor impairments to experience significant barriers as they try to engage with or contribute to the content or conversation.

Join Boston University’s Office of Distance Education Accessibility Team for a discussion about digital accessibility and the responsibility we all have to ensure our personal and professional digital spaces are accessible to everyone from day one. We will discuss our office-wide effort to design with accessibility in mind and the ways that each of us can improve our online communication, teaching, learning, and community building to make our digital spaces more accessible to all.

You can follow along with this slide presentation.