It’s time! The clock has started on the university’s Digital Accessibility Three-Year Plans! Your Three-Year Plan is your unit’s roadmap to achieving the university’s five goals for a digitally accessible Ohio State. Your Digital Accessibility Coordinator...
Digital Accessibility Services has launched a new website to provide resources and assistance to those producing digital content and those acquiring or building digital products. If utilizing or posting digital content is part of your role, you can be part of...
Meeting transcripts can be very useful—they make your meetings more accessible and help all participants look back on what was said and get caught up in the conversation. Zoom already had an option for “live” transcriptions, but they required a participant in the meeting to type captions as the...
Margaret Price, an associate professor of English and disabilities studies at Ohio State, joins Instructional Designer Megan Fogel on ODEE's AccessEDU podcast.
There is no denying that the consumption of podcasts is on the rise in the United States. As of 2017, over 112 million Americans have listened to a podcast, with over 42 million tuning in weekly. Wanting to capitalize on these stats, one staff member from the Office of Distance Education and...
It can feel overwhelming searching for the right place to receive support when creating a course online. For instructors and instructional designers at The Ohio State University, there are groups that ease these feelings of stress and panic over course development. One of them is the...
Have you ever felt that certain elements of a presentation, website, or online course didn’t hit home for you? Or if information had been presented differently you’d have connected with it more? Whatever the situation, the bottom line is that an opportunity to connect with important information...
There is a growing awareness for the value and necessity of captions for videos. Yet, there are many challenges in actually being able to deliver captions to users. Often the challenge comes from two things: time and money. Often, we are left with the need to simply caption the videos ourselves...
Students with disabilities in an online classroom are often hidden from view. When we don't meet face-to-face with our students, it's difficult to identify individual needs. How can we better “see” these students and work to accommodate their needs? At Ohio State, we are challenging ourselves to...
We share a mission at Ohio State for learning to be an engaging experience. Educational materials should usable by all, regardless of student ability or preference. Across the Buckeye community, we are facing similar challenges, wins, and questions related to this mission through the application...
