Find Accessibility Resources

Include appropriate alt text, focus styles, and HTML and ARIA tags in links.

Write links that are concise, descriptive, and meaningful out of context.

Present key concepts, sequences, and like items of more than two as lists where possible.

At the University of Minnesota, equity and diversity are advanced as “everyone’s everyday work” through both system-wide and campus-specific opportunities. 

Sign up for system-wide mailing lists to be notified of upcoming opportunities, and explore parallel resources and opportunities on your home campus:

• Crookston Office of Multicultural Education
• Duluth Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• Morris Office of Equity, Diversity, and Intercultural Programs
• Rochester Office of Diversity and Inclusion
• Twin Cities / Systemwide Office of Equity and Diversity

Include complete meeting and accessibility information in invitations to online meetings, use accessible technology, prepare to provide accommodations, assign an accessibility advocate, and send accessible follow up materials.

OTDP is a program of nine asynchronous online modules delivered via Training Hub and Canvas. Each module enables learners to develop appropriate online strategies and technology tools and apply them to their own courses. 

The modules are most fruitful when they relate to an online or blended course the learner can develop or revise using skills learned.

Consider accessibility as you begin every project. Even if you have limited time, take on just one aspect now, and tackle others later.

Learn about  effective practices that can reduce stress, improve mental health, and reduce the need for accommodations in this online document, the result of a collaboration between the Center for Educational Innovation and the President’s Initiative for Student Mental Health. 

It is organized into relevant policies, quick wins, and longer-term holistic approaches and includes recommendations for department/unit heads. 

Evaluate how well a technology meets accessibility policies and laws before purchasing one for use at the University. 

Find lists of inclusive teaching strategies and examples in a series of downloadable documents developed to reinforce concepts covered in the Fundamentals of Disability Accommodations and Inclusive Course Design professional development course.