October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month

October 4, 2021

Accessibility is Essential! Clemson Online can Help.

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), Clemson Online wants you to know that we have a robust slate of tools and resources to help you make your teaching and learning practices more accessible. Read on for a list of what we offer!

Bookings for Accessibility/Captioning Consults: Make an appointment in our Bookings system to learn more about how to make your instructional content accessible, or to get answer to your questions about captioning and other multimedia accessibility issues.
Clemson Online’s Accessibility Page: Here, you can find a list of resources and services we offer. We can help you with everything from making accessible documents to captioning your videos. You’ll also find several one-page overviews of how to add the most impactful accessibility features to your instructional content.
Canvas Guides: We also host several Canvas sites that can walk you through topics in accessible teaching and learning.
- Canvas Accessibility and Canvas Accessibility Lite: these two sites provide help for making your Canvas sites and learning materials accessible to all learners. The “Lite” version covers the same general information as the full version, but less in-depth.
- Implementing UDL in Canvas: this course covers the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and how to incorporate it into your Canvas course sites.
- PDF Accessibility in Adobe Acrobat: this course provides step-by-step instructions for making all of your PDF documents accessible using Acrobat, which is free to Clemson faculty and staff.
- Print Document Accessibility: if you create and distribute print materials to learners or colleagues, you can find details for making them accessible in this course.
- Video and Audio Accessibility: this course will help you add accessibility features to your course multimedia content.
Clemson University’s Accessibility Web Portal: The university also has its own set of resources and guides for anyone on campus interested in accessibility.

We all benefit from accessible materials and content, from captions and subtitles to documents that are easy to read. Get in touch with Clemson Online and learn how we can help you provide the most benefit to all your learners.

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