Accessibility Resources

New to Accessibility?

Check out: The State Board for Community and Technical College's Accessibility Microcourses! DAC highly recommend these asynchronous courses that explore one topic at a time in Canvas. Visit the eLearning Training Registration SBCTC website and review the Accessibility Micro-Courses description. Once you complete 3 classes you earn accessibility badges and Clark employees can email vbural@clark.edu and they can be added to your professional development dashboard.

Other College Resources

Each of the schools below provide an overview of accessibility for Office, Adobe, web content and other tools.  Tips for captioning are also provided.

• UW DOIT Accessibility Guide
• PCC Accessibility for Online Course Content
• Accessibility at Penn State

Your online Course content

• Accessibility Made Easy, open Canvas course (by Clark College staff). This is a great resource to refererence after taking a foundational accessibility training.
• CANVAS and Accessibility (by SBCTC)

Checklists and Cheatsheets

• The National Center on Disability and Access to Education Cheatsheets

Intermediate to Accessibility?

• WebAIM: Microsoft Word
• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
• WCAG in plain English (IT Accessibility checklist)

Math Accessibility

• Canvas Tips from Penn State

Accessibility Tips for third party Clark Tools used by faculty and staff

• For Surveys DAC recommends Microsoft Forms and discourages Survey Monkey which now has poor accessiblity.
  • Microsoft Forms Accessibility Tips
• Zoom Accessibility Features
  • Zoom How to Assign Closed Captioning

Captioning Resources

• Adding your own captions via YouTube
• For captioning in YouTube: How To Add an srt File To YouTube
• Creating Accessible Videos: Captioning Overview, an open Canvas class by SBCTC
• How do I embed a video in a page in a (Canvas) course?
• Panopto’s How to Add ASR Captions into a Video
• Questions on captioning? Contact Angela Childers at achilders@clark.edu 

• If you have an accommodation letter for a student in your class, and have third party videos where you cannot obtain captioned versions, please input a captioning request: Request ASL interpreter or captioning to DAC.  DAC only covers the cost when a student accommodation letter exists.

Clark's Accessibility Policy

Since July 2017, Clark has an Accessible Technology Policy. It clarifies that accessibility is every employee's responsibility. Please review it on the Accessibility website: www.clark.edu/accessibility 

Questions on Accessibility?

Students for accessibility help contact: Zach Lattin, AT/IT Accessibility Specialist at zlattin@clark.edu or Phone: 360-347-6281 to leave a message.

Faculty for questions about third party tools contact: Zach Lattin at zlattin@clark.edu or Phone: 360-347-6281. For help with CANVAS content or other course content contact: Tre Sandlin, Instructional Accessibility Tech at wsandlin@clark.edu or Phone: 360-992-2090 to leave a message.

Staff & Faculty Training:

• Microsoft Word and Power Point accessibility Workshops occur via Zoom every quarter. Email Tre Sandlin tsandlin@clark.edu for upcoming trainings or check out the Employee Training and Development Schedule.