Accessible Content Creator
The Digital Accessibility Summer Camp is a full-day, hands-on workshop for faculty and staff to explore practical, effective approaches to making digital content more accessible. Designed for individuals across the institution who create and manage digital content for all audiences, this experience is grounded in ADA compliance and inclusive pedagogy with an emphasis on actionable outcomes and real-time support.
The camp will focus on remediating and creating accessible content, describing images for inclusive engagement, and developing accessible video content. Through guided practice and real-world examples attendees will learn how to find, fix, and create accessible documents, images, presentations, digital communications, and web resources. This experience will equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to remediate and create accessible digital content.
Earning Criteria
- Remediate and create content in at least two of four functional areas (web/online, documents/presentations, images, video).
- Remediation: Improve accessibility of at least one existing content item.
- Creation: Develop at least one new piece of accessible content.
- Submit an action plan outlining next steps for identifying, remediating, or creating accessible digital content.
Additional Details
Time to complete
5 hours for the in-person workshop
45-60 minutes for reviewing course materials & related resources
30-45 minutes for participating in discussions
45-60 minutes for completing all activities that support awarding of the badge
Learning Outcomes
2. Identify and prioritize accessibility needs within documents, presentations, images, videos, social media, and other digital assets.
3. Remediate and create documents, presentations, images, videos, websites, etc. to improve digital accessibility.
4. Create effective image descriptions for instructional materials, social media, and other digital assets.
5. Produce accessible videos with captions and transcripts.
6. Construct an action plan that prioritizes accessibility improvements in your materials, documents, presentations, videos, websites, social media, or other digital assets and the resources you will need.
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