Accessible design and inclusive learning resources

Accessible design and inclusive learning resources 

• Information Services: Creating Accessible Materials
• Institute of Academic Development: Accessible and Inclusive Learning
• Accessible and Inclusive Learning Policy
• Assessment and Feedback Principles and Priorities
• Universal Design, Accessibility and Inclusion
• Information Services: Tips for Embedding Universal Design

Creating accessible materials

Guidance on providing documents or other materials in an alternative accessible formats can be found on the Information Services' creating accessible materials webpage.

Accessing materials in alternative formats

Download the workflow below which shows the process of obtaining library materials in alternative formats.

• Access to alternative formats workflow

Accessible technology 

Information Services (IS) have a dedicated Assistive Technology webpage that details all the support available around the University. There is information for disabled staff and students. 

SensusAccess

SensusAccess is a tool that lets you change electronic documents into different formats like audio books (MP3 and DAISY), e-books (EPUB, EPUB3, and Mobi), and digital Braille.  It can also transform less accessible files such as image-only PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, and JPEG images into more user-friendly formats.

The service is free and once converted, the documents will be sent to your University email address. 

For more information on how to use SensusAccess take their E-Learning Course.

We have also produced quick factsheet to provide guidance for using SensusAccess.

NB: you should not submit personal and/or sensitive data to SensusAccess to be converted. 

Subtitling guidance 

There are a range of options that support staff to provide subtitles for media used on websites or in teaching. 

Human Corrected Captioning Service: Information Services provide a service where a team of student interns correct captions for priority content called the Human Corrected Captioning Service 

Moray House Video Subtitling Service: The teaching staff in the Moray House School of Education and Sport provide a Video Subtitling Service

Staff in other Schools: 

• Information Service’s Making Your Media Accessible Guide on how to ensure all media produced by the University is accessible.
• Collaborate specific accessibility guide details general accessibility information, as well as information on providing subtitles/closed captions within the platform.
• IS provide regular training in editing automatically produced subtitles. Search ‘subtitling’ in MyEd Events
• For further information on IS’ training and guides contact Information Services Disability Information Offer, Viki Galt: viki.galt@ed.ac.uk 

Material created by third parties: If the material is hosted by YouTube, it is possible to use their automated transcription feature. The results are generally accurate, but can also be edited in YouTube.