Join the Journey to More Accessible Course Materials
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This 10-week workshop series offered by DELTA will guide you through increasing the accessibility of your digital course materials. Each session will feature best accessibility practices, tools, and checkers that can help you find and fix errors, and ideas for sustainably creating accessible course content moving forward. Practical, hands-on practice will be included in every workshop in this series. Register at go.ncsu.edu/join-the-accessibility-journey
Workshops in this series (all take place Fridays from 9:30 – 10:15 during Spring 2026)
Jan 16: Join the Journey: Approaching Accessibility in Your Course. We’ll kick off our series discussing how to approach improving accessibility without feeling overwhelmed. A very manageable amount (~1 hour) of “take home work” will prepare you for the rest of the series.
Jan 23: Making Course Documents Accessible. Focus on Microsoft Word and Google Docs. We’ll cover principles of document accessibility and practice using accessibility checkers to improve their accessibility.
Jan 30: Making Course Slides Accessible. Focus on Google slides and Microsoft PowerPoint. We’ll cover the unique characteristics of slides that require special attention in order to make them fully accessible and practice applying best practices.
Feb 6: Making Course PDF’s Accessible. We’ll cover the special accessibility considerations of PDF’s, how to make PDF’s accessible and when to consider switching to alternative formats.
Feb 13: Ensuring Accessibility of Course Multimedia. Focus on audio and video. We’ll cover captioning, transcripts, and when text-based descriptions of video content is needed. Focus on Panopto, but the principles are the same regardless of platform.
Feb 20: Making Course Websites Accessible. Come if you offer course content through a website you create and maintain. We’ll cover how to apply digital accessibility principles to websites and how to check and update them as needed.
Feb 27: Make Moodle Content Accessible. We’ll introduce the Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit and walk through how to use it to check your content that you’ve authored within the Moodle environment.
March 6: Delivering Content Accessibly with External Tools. Focus on SCORM, H5P, PlayPosit, TopHat, Wooclap and Perusall when used to deliver content. Ensure you are using external tools in the most accessible way possible.
March 13: Ensuring Accessibility in Student-Generated Content. Focus on external tools like Yellowdig, Voicethread, collaborative docs and whiteboards. Ensure you are using external tools in the most accessible way possible.
March 27: Sourcing Accessible Content From Third Parties. We’ll cover how to ensure videos, documents, websites and more from third parties that you use in your course are accessible to all your students.