Library Guides: Digital Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning: Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning Presentation Slides

Universal Design for Learning: Practical Guidelines for Academic Libraries

JAWS Screen Reader - Sample

JAWS Screen Reader - Hear an Example

Hands-on Part

Microsoft Office

Word: Accessibility checker and Alt-Text for images/charts in Word. Save as tagged PDF.

PowerPoint: Accessibility checker and Alt-Text for images/charts in Word. Save as tagged PDF.

Further help:

List of Best Practices - http://www2.cuny.edu/accessibility/content/pdf-microsoft/#list_of_best_practices
PDF Tagging - https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-accessible-PDFs-064625e0-56ea-4e16-ad71-3aa33bb4b7ed
MS Word - Creating Accessible Documents on Windows and Mac - http://webaim.org/techniques/word/
PowerPoint Accessibility - http://webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/

Adobe Acrobat to create OCR PDFs

Only Adobe Acrobat Professional can convert or create Optical Character Recognition (OCR) PDFs.
Faculty and staff can have it installed on their computers. Please contact your IT department for further help.

Further help:

Scan paper to PDF and apply OCR with Adobe Acrobat®

YouTube and Closed Captions

Closed Captions - Test Video

Further help:

YouTube - Add subtitles & closed captions

Leoanrd Lief Library, Library Accessibility and Technology Research Guide

This Research Guides on Library Accessibility and Technology and was created by Rebecca Arzola, Government Documents - Collection Development Librarian at Lehman College.

Universal Design for Learning: Further Readings

7 Things You Should Know About Universal Design for Learning. Educause Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 July 2016.
Zhong, Ying. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Library Instruction. College & Undergraduate Libraries 19.1 (2012): 33-45
Nall, Clark. Academic Libraries and the Principles of Universal Design for Learning Representation beyond Courses. College & Research Libraries News 76.7 (2015): 374-75.
Chodock, Ted, and Elizabeth Dolinger. Applying Universal Design to Information Literacy: Teaching Students Who Learn Differently at Landmark College. Reference & User Services Quarterly 49.1 (2009)