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Designing an Accessible Syllabus

This PDF Posterette provides a guide for insuring that your syllabi are accessible through universal design.

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Syllabus Checklist Posterette - Faculty Kit  (PDF File) (ACCESS-ed)

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Posted by: kcwallin on Mon Nov 23, 2020 at 9:39 a.m.

This is a quick checklist to use when designing a syllabus and ensuring its accessibility. While the syllabus AUDIT gives a more comprehensive dissection of a syllabus, this seems like a helpful tool for someone who understands the AUDIT and just needs a quick checklist to refer to before finalizing any syllabi.

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Posted by: freibe28 on Tue Nov 23, 2021 at 9:14 a.m.

I think this is a great tool for faculty to use to check the accessibility of their syllabus. I would recommend this to all faculty to use when making their syllabus.

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Posted by: AlecGazdik on Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 5:53 p.m.

This is a great resource for an aspect of a class that has significant importance. The syllabus outlines the course and often has many valuable resources within. Creating an accessible syllabus with the help of this checklist will ensure that the student has the resources they need to succeed.

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It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

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