Digital accessibility professional development demonstrates a personal commitment to providing an equal experience for students faced with visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities or impairments. We acknowledge that digital accessibility is an iterative process that requires support, knowledge, and skills training.
Our Digital Accessibility Policy promotes compliance with relevant local, state, and federal regulations, laws, and guidance. When working on your content, whether you're developing from scratch, simply making copy changes, or adding a photo, you need to keep accessibility in mind so that you comply with university standards and federal law.
Why Is Digital Accessibility Important?
Digital accessibility standards ensure that everyone can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with information on the internet, regardless of ability. At Case Western Reserve University, this means our websites, social media accounts, applications, and content available online—including images, videos, and documents—need to meet specific guidelines relating to how elements look, sound, and interact.
It’s Beneficial for Everyone
Creating accessible materials is essential for those with disabilities but is helpful to our entire CWRU community. Understanding its necessity, we offer support and training opportunities to all members of our university.
For instructors, faculty, TAs, or anyone else working on course accessibility, we offer a self-paced course that includes how to check the accessibility of your courses.
How Digital Accessibility Benefits Everyone
By engaging in training and support, you improve the user experience, drive innovation, and grow through unity and transparency. Your efforts to create accessible content improve the environment for everyone at Case Western Reserve.
Support
Have questions or need support? Email TLTaccessibility@case.edu and for more information about digital accessibility initiatives, sign up for our TLT Digital Accessibility newsletter for monthly updates about upcoming trainings and new technology.