Designing for All

Welcome to CIEL’s Designing for All: A Toolkit for Maximum Digital Impact.

This support resource was written for instructors at VIU who would like to make their VIULearn courses and learning materials as accessible as possible.

We would like to acknowledge that we are not experts in this field, but recognize its importance. This book is the beginning of our efforts to learn more and assist the university community. We will continue to add to our knowledge and share it here in subsequent editions of this text.

We would also like to acknowledge that we relied heavily on the the BCcampus Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition while creating this book. The BCcampus Accessibility Toolkit – 2nd Edition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, as is our resource. This makes them open educational resources (OER).

Open educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We encourage you to explore other OER that are available on the BCcampus OpenEd Resources page.

Accessibility features of the web version of this resource
The web version of the Accessibility Toolkit has been designed with accessibility in mind by incorporating the following features:

• It has been optimized for people who use screen-reader technology.
• all content can be navigated using a keyboard
• links, headings, and tables are formatted to work with screen readers
• images have alt tags
• Information is not conveyed by colour alone.
• There is an option to increase font size (see tab on top right of screen).

Other file formats available

In addition to the web version, this book is available in a number of file formats including PDF, EPUB (for eReaders), MOBI (for Kindles), and various editable files. Here is a link to where you can download this book in another file format. Look for the “Download this book” drop-down menu to select the file type you want.

This book links to a number of external websites. For those using a print copy of this resource, the link text is underlined, and you can find the web addresses for all links in the back matter of the book.

Known accessibility issues and areas for improvement

While we strive to ensure that this resource is as accessible and usable as possible, we might not always get it right. Any issues we identify will be listed below. There are currently no known issues.

Accessibility standards

The web version of this resource has been designed to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, level AA. In addition, it follows all guidelines in Appendix A: Checklist for Accessibility. The development of this toolkit involved working with students with various print disabilities who provided their personal perspectives and helped test the content.

Let us know if you are having problems accessing this toolkit

We are always looking for ways to make our resources more accessible. If you have problems accessing this resource, please contact us to let us know so we can fix the issue.