Digital accessibility means ensuring that technologies and the information they provide are accessible to people with disabilities. This class introduces disability, physical accessibility, and digital accessibility. It is designed for staff who want to start creating accessible digital content, but don’t know where to get started, as well as staff already using digital accessibility best practices, but are interested in learning more about assistive technology.

This class is co-taught with colleagues from the New Jersey Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired. They will demonstrate using a screen reader to navigate a website, and help participants explore a number of other assistive technologies commonly used by people who are blind or low vision. 

Participants will leave this class with a better understanding of the challenges people with disabilities encounter when accessing digital information, and learn what small adjustments they can make to their own content to help alleviate some of the most common digital barriers that prevent people with disabilities from accessing information on the web and other digital environments.

If you are planning to take the Certificate in Accessibility Testing exam offered by OIT, you must take this course. The two other required classes include "Practical Steps for Creating Accessible Website Content" and "How to Test for Accessibility."

To request disability-related accommodations, please contact [email protected] at least one week before the event.