A 3D memo in October announced NC State’s new university policy on digital accessibility requirements for all content and applications.
If you’re interested in growing your knowledge and skills necessary to bring your course materials up to the new standards for digital accessibility, DELTA is here to help!
Join us in the spring for Join the Accessibility Journey, a weekly workshop series focused on taking steps toward accessible course materials. We’ll move through documents, slides, multimedia, websites, Moodle sites and more. Each workshop will include guidance on how to apply digital accessibility principles to a specific type of content and will include hands-on time to practice what you’ve learned.
Workshops in the Join the Accessibility Journey Series
This 10-week workshop series 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.
All workshops take place Fridays from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. 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. We’ll focus on Microsoft Word and Google Docs and cover principles of document accessibility. We’ll practice using accessibility checkers designed for documents.
Jan. 30: Making Course Slides Accessible. We’ll focus on Google slides and Microsoft PowerPoint and cover unique characteristics of slides that require special attention. We’ll 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 converting materials to an alternative format.
Feb. 13: Ensuring Accessibility of Course Multimedia. We’ll focus on audio and video and cover captioning, transcripts, and when text-based descriptions of video content is needed.
Feb. 20: Making Course Websites Accessible. Do you offer course content through a website you create and maintain? We’ll cover how to check websites and apply digital accessibility principles to them.
Feb. 27: Make Moodle Content Accessible. We’ll walk through how to use the Brickfield Accessibility+ Toolkit to check content that you’ve authored within the Moodle environment. Any improvements you make will carry over to Canvas!
March 6: Delivering Content Accessibly with External Tools. We’ll focus on tools used to deliver content, such as SCORM, H5P, PlayPosit, TopHat, Wooclap and Perusall to ensure you are using external tools in the most accessible way possible.
March 13: Ensuring Accessibility in Student-Generated Content. We’ll focus on tools that invite student collaboration and contribution like Yellowdig, Voicethread, collaborative docs and whiteboards.
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.
