Course Materials Checklist for Digital Accessibility AY 25-26

The University of Washington's civil rights compliance office sets out what the Department of Justice rules ask of an individual instructor, and then does the thing almost no accessibility guidance does, which is tell you what order to work in when you teach four courses and cannot fix them all at once. Its prioritisation list starts with deleting outdated material and choosing accessible readings before it ever reaches alt text, captions and checker scores, and it names a concrete target to aim at this year rather than an aspiration. You finish with a defensible sequence for the term, and with the university's own written commitment to stand behind instructors who follow it, which is the part worth showing a nervous colleague.

Task

Accessible materials

Time

10 min

Level

beginner

Cost

Free — Nothing to pay. A free account at most.

Tools

None in particular

Published

2026