Accessibility

This page contains recorded sessions regarding Accessibility, as well as additional resources that can assist. This page will be updated regularly with new resources as they become available.

All Access Pass - Enhancing Student Engagement & Success - Part 1

This workshop covers:

• Why digital accessibility is important at Western
• Understanding why you don't have to have a disability to have difficulty accessing content
• Recognise the areas that impact on accessibility and outline of the steps to fixing them
• Sneak peek at the new Blackboard ALLY plugin
  • Digital Accessibility Workshop, Part 1 (opens in a new window)

All Access Pass - Enhancing Student Engagement & Success - Part 2

This workshop covers:

• Practical steps to fixing accessibility issues in Word, Powerpoint, PDF and Panopto

• See a practical ALLY demonstration

  • Digital Accessibility Workshop, Part 2: Video 1 (opens in a new window)
  • Digital Accessibility Workshop, Part 2: Video 2 (opens in a new window)

• Resources:

  • Accessible Word Template (DOTX, 114.71 KB) (opens in a new window)
  • Crimson Powerpoint - Opens Sans (POTX, 517 KB) (opens in a new window)
  • Crimson Powerpoint - Wide - Open Sans (POTX, 953.98 KB) (opens in a new window)
  • Fixing Accessibility Issues in Powerpoint (PDF, 259.29 KB) (opens in a new window)
  • Fixing Accessibility Issues in Word (PDF, 311.89 KB) (opens in a new window)
  • Captioning videos uploaded in vUWS via Panopto Link (PDF, 586.57 KB) (opens in a new window)

Easy Steps to Making Your PDF Documents More Accessible

This session will cover:

• Tags, title and language, Document and table headings, Reading sequence or items not correctly identified, Image alternative text and Contrast issues
  • Easy Steps to Making Your PDF Documents More Accessible (opens in a new window)

Easy Steps to Making Your PowerPoint and Panopto Videos More Accessible

This session will provide:

• Steps to fixing the more common Accessibility issues found in Microsoft PowerPoint including Alternative text, Slide/Table headings, Text/colour contrast and Adding/editing and downloading captions in Panopto.
  • Easy Steps to Making Your PowerPoint and Panopto Videos More Accessible (opens in a new window)

Easy Steps to Making Your Word Documents More Accessible

This session will provide steps to fixing the more common Accessibility issues found in Microsoft Word:

• Heading styles, Contrast issues, Table without headings, Image alternative text, Language and Saving as a tagged PDF.
  • Easy Steps to Making Your Word Documents More Accessible (opens in a new window)

Online Assessments

• Alternative Online Assessments (PDF, 622.9 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Process for Transitioning Autumn Assessments Online (PDF, 31.53 KB) (opens in a new window)

Additional Resources

• Online Professional Learning Modules
• Online Engagement and Teaching Hub (opens in a new window)
• Blackboard Short Courses
• Recorded Sessions and Resources

Ideas and Resources for Teaching Online

• Online Learning Technology Options for Students in China (PDF, 618.6 KB) (opens in a new window)
• COVID-19 Possible Delivery Options for Teaching (PDF, 800.6 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Strategies for Teaching Students Off Campus (PDF, 2239.81 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Multiple Choice Questions and vUWS Quizzes (opens in a new window) (IE not supported)
• Preventing and dealing with unwanted behaviour (PDF, 559.7 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Important tips for online learning (PDF, 584.52 KB) (opens in a new window)
• Smart Assessment Design Toolkit (opens in a new window)