From the course: Learning to Teach Online
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Learners with disabilities
From the course: Learning to Teach Online
Learners with disabilities
- [Instructor] Another important consideration regarding accessibility within your online course is whether the different features, functions, and resources are accessible by learners with a disability. You may have learners with disabilities related to vision, hearing, motor, or cognitive functions. An example of something to consider is whether there are closed captions on videos for any students with hearing impairments. For example, here's a video on LinkedIn Learning that I want to share with my course. Now, I'm confident that I can use it because it has closed captions. Down here in the bottom, I can turn them on or off and select the language that I want, and if I press play, I can see that those closed captions appear down at the bottom. Another potential example is that you have a student with a vision impairment. In this situation, it's important to use a platform that's set up with the appropriate headers,…
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