Tools

This webpage, from the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials, provides questions to ask about accessibility before selecting educating materials. Accessibility can be enhanced when materials and tools are procured that can be used by all learners to support their learning. The questions in this document can help users evaluate both...

The Job Accommodation Network's (JAN) Searchable Online Accommodation Resource (SOAR) system is "designed to let users explore various accommodation options for people with disabilities in work and educational settings." Users can enter in search phrases or choose from a list of popular searches. Search results can be narrowed down according to...

The Teach Access Study Away Silicon Valley program brings together students, faculty, and industry partners to explore the field of accessibility. Each day, students visit a different industry partner to gain an understanding of the work being done in each location, with the opportunity to engage in substantive conversations to advance their own...

This resource kit, created by Mount Holyoke College, provides various tools for teaching statistics in psychology to students with disabilities, including visual impairments, learning disabilities, neurodiversity and math related anxiety. In addition to articles, research, and interviews with students, the site also includes teaching tools and...

This guide from deaf digital marketer Meryl Evans covers different automatic captioning tools that can be used in real-time for making video calls accessible on different platforms. Evans provides guidelines for readability, caption placement, and synchronization of automatic captions, as well as tips to overcome other accessibility challenges. The...

This 2-page infographic provides reasons to teach accessibility to technology designers, engineers, and writers. This resource also defines accessibility, provides statistics related to the importance of accessibility, and tips for teaching accessibility.

This article, from the DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) website, discusses computer accommodations for people with mobility impairments. The article discusses the importance of assistive technologies and then provides a descriptive list of computing tools "... that have been effectively used by individuals with...

YouDescribe is a service developed by the Smith-Kettlewell Video Description and Development Center that allows users to add audio description to YouTube videos. Users can browse through recently added descriptions or search for a video by YouTube URL. If a video has not been described yet, users can add it to a Wish List or add a description.