​​​​​​​​​Accessibility Support and Resources​

Sample Accommodation Letter:

​Sample Accommodation Letter.pdf

Commitment

"Ensuring educational accessibility is foundational to achieving the Vision for Success goal of creating an equitable system of higher education and is a critical piece of student success and degree completion. Research shows that utilizing universal design principles, which is fundamental to ensuring accessibility, improves student-centered pedagogical practice and student outcomes (Chancellor Ortiz, 2018)."

​Resources

Information for creating accessible documents can be found at the following links:

Microsoft Word

• Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents (WebAIM)
  

Microsoft PowerPoint

• Creating Accessible Microsoft PowerPoint Documents (WebAIM)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

• Defining PDF Accessibility (WebAIM)
  
• Converting Documents to Accessible PDFs (WebAIM)
  
• Acrobat and Accessibility (WebAIM)

General

• Video Tutorial on Creating Accessible Documents
  
• Online Course Accessibility Checklist​
  
  

The CCC Accessibility Center offers a wide variety of accessibility support for staff, faculty, and students including:

• Guidance on authoring accessible electronic documents and web content
• Tools for evaluating and remediating accessibility issues in electronic documents and web content
• A variety of 'How to' Video Trainings that cover key accessibility topics (e.g. accessible documents, online course materials, web accessibility, and purchasing accessible IT products/services). The Accessible Documents Word To PDF handout associated with the Accessible Documents training is an especially useful resource.
  
• Recommended assistive technology tools for persons with disabilities
  
• Guidance on producing alternate format​ versions of instructional material
• Guidance on selecting accessible ICT and instructional technology products
• A Help Desk that offers technical assistance and accessibility review of instructional technologies and materials
  

The CCC Online Education Initiative offers several useful resources including:

• An OEI Accessibility page with tutorials and videos
  
• Creating Accessible Online Courses with Canvas, an open-access Canvas course for CCC faculty that covers techniques for ensuring that a Canvas course is accessible for all students.
  

The CCC Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) division provides links to several important resources including:

• The system​ wide​ Alternate Media Production Guidelines
  
• The Distance Education Captioning and Transcription (DECT) project
  

Accessible Course Materials is a helpful website with articles, handouts, and videos that cover how to author, evaluate and remediate accessible instructional materials.

Santiago Canyon College developed a brief ACCESS guidance document that provides a list of key accessibility guidelines and associated checklist for online courses.​