The Teaching and Learning Commons (TLC) and the Accessibility at Swarthmore teams have joined forces to bring you a customizable syllabus template for Fall 2025. Members of the Swarthmore community can download the accessible syllabus template from Google Drive as … Continue reading Styling in Word: Introducing an accessible syllabus template
Last week Sheryl Burgstahler, the founding Director of DO-IT*/Accessible Technology Services and Outreach at the University of Washington was on campus promoting Universal Design. (if interested you can listen to her talk available here) Universal Design is a concept from … Continue reading A few minutes to learn something cool … Universal Design
Math, visual impairment and linearity Confessions Let me say right off the bat, I am not a ‘math person’. I find it interesting, particularly in the context of math as language, but I really don’t “get” it. Nor do I … Continue reading Math Sounds
Automatically Creating Caption Files from YouTube Videos Many may not know, but YouTube has a speech-to-text feature that will auto-caption your videos for you! Providing closed captions for your videos is incredibly important not just for students with hearing difficulties … Continue reading Auto-Captioning Videos in YouTube
Several people from Swarthmore attended a week long conference entitled Accessing Higher Ground in Denver, Colorado. This conference is open to anyone at Swarthmore and is one of the best conferences I have ever attended. If you want to learn … Continue reading AHG: Compelling Stuff We Learned
One of the principles in Universal Design for Learning is to provide materials in multiple formats (equitable access). Some of you may remember a time before there were curb cuts. Curb cuts came about as a result of the ADA. … Continue reading Stuff Your Mom Never Told You About Electronic Content
