Faculty Members

Faculty members are individuals who create or deliver course content, learning materials, assessments, and instructional activities.

Visit the Course Materials page to view essential practices for creating accessible course content, along with external resources you can use to make your course materials more accessible.

There are also a series of Self-Paced Trainings on how to make your course materials accessible as a faculty member:

  • Introduction: What is digital accessibility and why it matters, who is impacted by accessible digital content.
  • Colors: Why color is important and how to ensure adequate contrast.
  • Images: What is in an image and how to make it accessible.
  • Video & Audio: The importance of captions and transcripts.
  • Microsoft Word: The ways in which Word documents can be made accessible.
  • Microsoft PowerPoint: How to use accessibility tools for PowerPoint presentations.
  • PDFs: What is PDF accessibility and how to remediate an inaccessible file.
  • Equidox (PDF Remediation): What Equidox is and how to use it to efficiently tag and remediate inaccessible PDFs.
  • Blackboard Ally (HuskyCT Accessibility Tool): Why accessibility is important and how to make accessible teaching material.
  • Email: The importance of inclusive communication and how to construct and format accessible messages.
  • Microsoft Excel: The core elements of a spreadsheet and how to format data tables for accessibility.
  • LaTeX: How to write accessible research papers using LaTeX and ensure your documents are fully compatible with screen readers.

If you manage a website:

  • Websites: The various elements of a website and how to make them accessible.
  • Siteimprove: What Siteimprove is and how to use it to monitor, evaluate, and fix accessibility issues across web pages.