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Accessible Syllabus: Image, Text, Rhetoric, Policy
Accessible Syllabus Team
Samantha’s
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Are you ready to make your syllabus more accessible? Review accessible syllabus strategies including multimodal content, document design, and inclusive rhetoric and policies.
This website is dedicated to helping instructors build a syllabus that plans for diverse student abilities and promotes an atmosphere in which students feel comfortable discussing their unique abilities. Countless instructors complain that students don’t read the syllabus. We believe students would use the document more effectively if it were designed more accessibly.
Topics relating to accessible image, text, rhetoric, and policy in the syllabus include:
- Ideas for Using Images
- Alternative Text for Images (Alt Text)
- Color Universal Design
- Flexible Text that Users can Manipulate
- Concise Text
- Interactive Text with Hyperlinks
- Reader-Friendly Text
- Hierarchical Document Design
- Digital Reader Supports
- Emphasize Positive over Punishing Language
- Create Invitations over Commands
- Choose Cooperative over Paternalistic Rhetoric
- Examine Traditional Policies
- Begin with an Inclusive Learning Statement
- Expand Deadlines
- Build Flexibility into Grading Distributions
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