Digital Accessibility Training

There is a wealth of digital accessibility training content on the web, available through organizations such as the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM), or Deque University. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has also developed a new video series on Digital Access in Education, available through the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) National Network.

Digital Accessibility Basics Training Series

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) created a five part, internal digital accessibility training series for creators and editors of public-facing digital resources at PSU. This training series leads participants through foundational digital accessibility concepts and how to information for most content authoring platforms.

The following are the public-facing, video portions of the training series. The full curriculum, including associated quizzes, is available via PSU's Canvas Learning Management System (LMS).

• Digital Accessibility, Part 1: What and Why

• Digital Accessibility, Part 2: Accessible Text Content

• Digital Accessibility, Part 3: Accessible Navigation

• Digital Accessibility, Part 4: Accessible Media

• Digital Accessibility, Part 5: Validation

Recordings of Digital Accessibility Training Events

• Lecture on Web Accessibility with Terrill Thompson

• Open Forum Meeting on Accessibility with Terrill Thompson

• Document Accessibility, Part 1, with Terrill Thompson

• Document Accessibility, Part 2, with Terrill Thompson

• Accessible Media, Part 1, with Terrill Thompson

• Accessible Media, Part 2, with Terrill Thompson

Upcoming, Live Digital Accessibility Training Events

OIT maintains a Google calendar of free, digital accessibility webinars. Please note, you may need to log into your PSU Odin account in order to view and respond to these internal calendar events.