I’m writing from an ITF meeting where we’re learning more about Universal Design Learning (UDL), defined as “an approach to the design of all products and environments to be usable by everyone, to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age, ability, or situation.” In essence, the goal of UDL is to make information accessible in various forms and going beyond just legal mandates for disability accessibility.
We’ve learned some easy tips for making presentations more accessible such as avoiding red and green colors in your presentations to help those with red-green color-blindness that affects 6% of males of populations (NIH National Eye Institute). I’ve included two of the documents from the meeting, “Creating Accessible PowerPoint Presentations” and “Accessibility Checklist for PowerPoint” and so you can learn more about UDL and perhaps incorporate some of the tips into your presentations for the Seminar 4 Common Event. Yes, many of the tips can apply to creating Google Slides presentations.
Click through to see the documents!
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6573/2019/04/16203610/Creating-Accessible-PowerPoint-Documents.pdf
https://files.eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6573/2019/04/16203610/Accessibility-Checklist-for-PowerPoint-Documents1.pdf
