Open Educational Resources must be accessible to all students.  Below are resources that help with accessibility standards for OER.

LOCATE

Finding Accessible OER 

• MERLOT  
• SUNY Ready-to-Adopt Courses
• OER Commons

EVALUATE

Accessibility Criteria to Consider

• Navigation that is clear and consistent.
• Properly structured documents, including headings.
• Sufficient color contrast. Avoid using color to convey meaning.
• Alternative text descriptions - for images, tables, equations, maps, etc.
• Intelligibly-captioned multimedia and descriptive audio.
• High quality scans with no highlighting or handwriting.
• PDFs that are text renderable, tagged, and structured appropriately.
• Meaningful hyperlinks. Avoid phrases like ‘click here’ and ‘more’.

CREATE

Remember to:

• Include Alt Text for images
• Pay attention to color and contrast
• Think about layout and design within Microsoft Office
• Provide closed captions and/or audio descriptions within silent multimedia clips
• Avoid unwieldy hyperlinks
• Structure content clearly, include headings
• Make tables understandable with headings within tables
• Avoid depending on color to communicate meaning
• License your work with Creative Commons

(Special thanks to Penn State's Accessibility Office for creating so many great resources)

Accessibility Tools