1. How to get started
- Contacting the Accessibility Office
- Students must register with Accessibility Services for support and accommodations for disability-related barriers. To see what type of services/support the Accessibility Office provides, click the "Services" and "Programs" tabs at the bottom of the site
- Registration process and documentation information
- How to contact your accessibility advisor and what they can help with
- Academic accommodation updates due to switch to online learning
- Contacting the Accommodated Testing Services Office
- Students can view updates and registration deadlines for online and in-person assessments (NOTE: must be registered with accessibility services first)
- Information for staff about how instructors and ATS work together to provide accommodations for students, and how the process works
- AODA Office
2. What you can do to make your content more accessible
2.1. Quercus course
2.2. Assessments
- Alternative online assessment options to exams
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Online test/exam configuration strategies to meet the needs of students who need accommodations
- Longer timed exams, flagging questions, navigation between questions
2.3. Video content
- Captioning
- Auto captioning
- Using MS Stream to generate captions (automatic or custom transcript) for upload
- Adding automatic captions to MyMedia, via downloading automatically generated captions on Microsoft Stream; captions can be edited
- Adding captions to YouTube videos
- Manual/paid captioning
- Rev captioning software ($1.25 per minute of video)
- Amara video captioning (create own captions for free or pay to have videos captioned)
- Setting up closed captions for Bb Collaborate sessions/recordings (moderator must assign a user to type closed captions)
- Auto captioning
3. What students can do to make their experience more accessible
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Accessibility technology masterlist for students
- Screen magnifier, screen reader, accessibility options for apps and OS's, writing and reading support options, speech to text/speech recognition software
- Accessibility resources for students (UTM/UTSG/UTSC campuses) by CTSI
4. Accessibility checker tools
Accessibility checkers scan documents and provide feedback about parts of the document that can cause accessibility issues (eg. hard-to-read text), and recommendations on how to fix them.