As part of our commitment to providing an accessible environment for all, we are taking important steps to ensure that all learners can fully access and engage with our digital course materials. All learners benefit from accessible course materials, not only students with disabilities.

Instructors and teaching assistants must ensure all students, including those with disabilities, are provided with access to the instructional materials and resources in their courses. This includes, but is not limited to, your course videos, syllabi, publisher resources (e.g., Wiley, McGraw Hill, Hawkes, etc.), textbooks, discussion board, course site, etc.  

Making course materials accessible can occur incrementally, and instructors are expected to work towards fully accessible digital course materials by the start of their Summer and Fall 2026 courses.  

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Responsibilities:
 

  • Ensuring PDF, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation course documents are accessible.
  • When applicable, ensuring publisher resources conform to WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
  • Ensuring course videos are accurately captioned and transcribed; and, when necessary, audio described to support students who are blind/low vision.
  • Hosting synchronous, online courses using accessible communications platforms like Zoom or Microsoft Teams. 

Resources and Workshops

  • Helpful resources designed to aid in creating accessible course material at the Center for Teaching and Learning’s (CTL) CTL Course Accessibility Hub and Office of Information Technology’s (OIT)’s Resources to Support Accessibility in Canvas.
  • Canvas Accessibility Checklist: a practical resource developed in CTL to help you quickly assess and improve accessibility across text, hyperlinks, images and alt-text, documents, tables, multimedia, and course structure.
  • Canvas Commons Accessible Course Template: developed collaboratively by CTL and DLT, available on Canvas Commons. To find the template, log into Canvas and then search in Canvas Commons.
  • Regularly scheduled training sessions featuring demos on Title II, Ally, Canvas templates, accessible documents, images, video, and audio. See Training page for upcoming sessions.
  • Monthly Accessibility Sprints and Roundtables covering accessible documents, images, PDFs in LaTeX, audio/video, UDL strategies, Canvas navigation and structure, and more. You can find all events listed on the CTL Events page. 

Center for Inclusive Design & Innovation (CIDI) Services

CIDI is another campus unit available to help you prepare your instructional materials for upcoming semesters.  CIDI offers advanced evaluation and remediation services for documents, media, videos, and complex instructional materials (i.e. STEM, specialized formats, and high-volume content) to help you meet Title II of ADA requirements.

CIDI offers a comprehensive suite of accessibility services to help:

If you have questions or need support, please contact the CIDI Support team at cidi-support@design.gatech.edu or call our campus line at 404-894-8000. Additionally, you can book a consultation with CIDI to have a more in-depth conversation about our services and how we can assist you in determining the best next steps based on your course material and instructional needs, as well as the resources required. 

Georgia Tech Library Resources

The Library is currently working on updating services and resources to provide timely remediation of materials and to support long-term accessibility efforts across its collection. For more information, please see the Library's Accessibility Webpage. 

Need Help?


Contact the Office of the Provost: provostsoffice@gatech.edu  

Contact CTL: CTLHelp@gatech.edu 

View the Frequently Asked Questions for answers to common questions