Creating Accessible Digital Content

Ensure that all your courses, documents, and videos are fully accessible to individuals with disabilities. Find tutorials and tips on . Electronic documents and forms are now the most common way of sharing information and must be clear, concise, and readily accessible with or without assistive technology.

Strive for 85

To ensure that all digital course content complies with the new Title II rule, Geneseo announces the Strive for 85 campaign. All Brightspace courses must have an Ally accessibility score of 85% or above. CIT will review low-scoring courses in Brightspace for improvement.

Make Your Course Content Accessible

  1. to check your course's accessibility score and how to fix any inaccessible materials you have. To locate the Ally Course Report, navigate to "Course Tools" in the blue course navigation bar at the top of your screen and select "Ally Course Report."
  2. Upload Word and PowerPoint documents to Brightspace, instead of PDF documents. These are much easier to make accessible.
  3. Use accessibility checkers (like and ) to ensure all of your course materials are accessible before uploading them to Brightspace.
  4. with CIT's Digital Accessibility Analyst, Anjali Shiyamsaran.
  5. Join the —open to all administrators, faculty, staff, and students—for more accessibility training, resources, and support.
  6. Request electronic textbooks from or by reaching out to the textbook's publisher directly.

Tutorials

More Accessibility Resources

  • Convert documents to accessible formats using
  • (free to SUNY students, faculty, staff)