OERs for Digital Accessibility (Introductory Course)

This page lists all the Open Educational Resources (OERs) that were created for the introductory course Digital Accessibility: Enabling Participation in the Information Society, which ran on FutureLearn from 17 October till 20 November 2016 and a second time from 6 February till 12 March 2017.

These OERs are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY 4.0). Simply put, this licence allows you to share, adapt and redistribute the content of the OERs, provided that you correctly attribute the original creators of these resources (see the copyright information for each resource). If you are not familiar with this licence, please read it before reusing these OERs.

Glossary

ICT Accessibility Glossary (Microsoft Word document). There is also a PDF version of the glossary. (Google Drive folder with the glossary files.)
© Copyright: University of Southampton, Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου (University of the Aegean), Hochschule der Medien (HdM), 2016 licence: Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY 4.0).

Day-in-the-life Stories

The day-in-the-life stories are available under the following licence:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0).
Below are the links to the individual files.
You can also go directly to the
Google Drive folder that contains these files.

  • Alexander (colour vision deficiency) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Technische Universität Dresden (Technical University Dresden), 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Anna (dyslexia) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: University of York, 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Carole (blind) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Université Paris 8, 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Lars (deaf) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences), 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Maria (partially sighted) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Johannes Kepler Universität Linz and Université Paris 8, 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Mary (mobility and dexterity problems) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Dublin Institute of Technology & Πανεπιστήμιο Αιγαίου (University of the Aegean), 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Monika (elderly) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Hochschule der Medien (Stuttgart Media University), 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Susan (hard of hearing) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2015.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.
  • Tom (speech impairment) (HTML version)
    Text: © Copyright: Dublin Institute of Technology and The University of Southampton, 2016.
    Image: © Copyright: The University of Southampton, 2016.

Introduction

Enabling People to Work on Computers

Mobile Accessibility

Web Accessibility

Enabling Everyone Everyday