Creating Accessible Digital Content

When you make all your courses, documents, and videos fully accessible to individuals with disabilities, you benefit all of your students. Electronic documents 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. Low-scoring courses in Brightspace will be reviewed for improvement.

Top 5 Tips to Make Course Content Accessible

1. Use Ally in Brightspace to check your course's accessibility score. 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. Make documents accessible from the start by using Word, PowerPoint, or Google documents. Pass the built-in accessibility checkers in Microsoft and Google before uploading them to Brightspace. Avoid uploading PDF documents to Brightspace.
3. If you have scanned pages of readings, recreate these in Word or request electronic textbooks from Milne Library.
4. Schedule an accessibility consultation to meet with CIT's Digital Accessibility Analyst, Anjali Shiyamsaran, or submit documents for remediation.
5. Join the SUNY Inclusion Quest—open to all administrators, faculty, staff, and students—for more accessibility training, resources, and support.

View Tutorials

• Add Captions to your videos in Brightspace
• LinkedIn Learning Accessibility Basics
• Send accessible emails
• Create accessible social media

Check Out More Accessibility Resources

• Find tutorials and tips on CIT's self-help pages
• Visit the Milne Library's Assistive Technology and Accessibility Workstations
• Convert documents to accessible formats using SensusAccess
• Deque University Accessibility Courses (free to SUNY students, faculty, staff)