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This is a collection of resources aimed at faculty to help them develop online courses and course materials that are accessible to students with disabilities, using principles of universal design. A more comprehensive set of information and further resources is available at http://webmasters.mnscu.edu/access/.

What you see here is just the beginning. More will be added soon.

=== Accesselearning: http://www.accesselearning.net/ ===
:"A free,online ten-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for all students." Lake Superior College faculty use this, I believe to great benefit.

=== Accessible Web-based Distance Education: Principles and Best Practices: http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/rd/library/papers/accDistanceEducation.html ===
:Paper outlining strategies for implementing universal design in online courses.

=== Accessibility in Distance Education: http://www.umuc.edu/ade/ ===
:A focus on "helping faculty develop accessible online learning materials for people with disabilities." Includes information about accessibility and disabilities, legal issues, how-tos, and best practices.

=== Access IT: http://www.washington.edu/accessit/ ===
:Another program at the University of Washington, aimed more directly at educators.

=== Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education: http://www.catea.org/grade/ ===
:GRADE's mission is to improve the accessibility of distance education for students with disabilities. Includes course design models, application-specific guidelines (e.g. for making accessible Word or PowerPoint files), and the highly recommended Accesselearning tutorial.

=== University of Washington's DO-IT: http://www.washington.edu/doit/ ===
:Tutorials, articles, videos, and very good resources for faculty at:
::http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/
::http://www.washington.edu/doit/Resources/accessdl.html

=== WebAIM: Web Accessibility in Mind: http://webaim.org/ ===
:One of the best resources for web accessibility. Although not focused on education, it is a project at Utah State University. Introduction, laws, guidelines, tools, research, articles, products and services, how-tos, and more.

=== W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI): http://www.w3.org/WAI/ ===
:Part of the World Wide Web Consortium, which oversees web "standards" such as HTML and CSS, the WAI’s site includes guidelines, techniques, training curricula, slide presentations, etc. Their material tends to be technical in nature, as you might expect from standards bodies. If you understand HTML and CSS well, this is a good resource, otherwise...

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