Universal Design and Accessibility Resources
About the Office of Educational Accessibility at UArts
- OEA Quick Guide for Faculty
- Questions about accessibility & accommodations? Please contact access@uarts.edu
Universal/Inclusive Design for Learning:
- Inclusive Design Principles
- Think UDL podcast
- Q&A: Making sense of Universal Design for Learning. Inside HigherEd.
- Universal Design in Higher Education: Promising Practices
- Strategies for Creating an Inclusive Classroom
- Universal Design (UDL on Campus)
- Equal Access: Universal Design for Instruction
- Building Pedagogical Curbcuts: Incorporating Disability in the University Classroom and Curriculum
- Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (Tobin, T. & Behling, K. (2018)
- Universal Design in Higher Education: Equal Access in Student Services
Accessible Materials:
- Accessibility Quick Guide
- Creating accessible Word Documents
- Creating accessible PowerPoint Documents
- Creating accessible PDFs through Microsoft Office
- Accessibility Checklist from PSU
- Vanderbilt's Creating Accessible Learning Environments
- Syracuse University Accessible Design for Classrooms
- DO-IT Center: Promoting inclusion and success for people with disabilities
- National Center for Disability and Access to Education
- Accessible Content "Cheatsheets"
Virtual Learning:
- Accessibility in Zoom
- How to Enable Live Automatic Transcription (captioning) in Zoom
- Access College: The Faculty Room
- The Center on Accessible Distance Learning (AccessDL)
Video and Audio Captioning:
- Please contact access@uarts.edu if you have questions about captioning videos
- How to Enable Live Automatic Transcription (captioning) in Zoom
- How-to add or edit Captions
Events and Programs:
- Creating Accessible Meetings
- Universal Design for Events and Presentations
Books/Blogs/Podcasts:
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of ADD (Gabor Mate, 2019)
- Anti-Racism and Universal Design for Learning, (Andratesha Fritzgerald, 2020)
- Disability Visibility: First Person Stories From the 21st Century (Alice Wong, 2020)
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, ( Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, 2018)
- Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History (Dr. Jaipreet Virdi, 2020)
- What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World (Sara Hendren, 2020)
- Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist (2020)
- The Heumann Perspective Podcast
- Our Fight for Disability Rights, Judith Heumann Tedx
- Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Amanda Leduc, 2020)
- Design Meets Disability (MIT Press, 2011)
- Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design (Bess Williamson, 2019)
- Disability Visibility Project and Podcast, Alice Wong
- Disability Arts Online Podcast
- Additional Comprehensive List of Disability Resources (pdf)
- 10 Insightful Ted Talks about disability, accessibility, and inclusion
- 8 Memoirs by Blind Writers