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Accessibility is not an all or nothing concept. In fact, accessibility professionals refer to the work being a journey or a moving target. Even if you are just starting your accessibility journey, small changes can have surprisingly large impacts. Sometimes choosing a starting point is the hardest part. That’s why the Instructional Accessibility Group developed The 5-3-1 Goals. Intended to help faculty choose more attainable accessibility goals, the 5-3-1 Goals are divided into three levels according to anticipated workload: short-term, mid-term, and long term. Start your accessibility journey by choosing and completing 5 short-term, 3 mid-term, and 1 long-term goal.

Short-Term Goals (Complete 5)

  • Determine the Accessibility of 3 documents
  • Use the Microsoft Accessibility Checker on a document
  • Review 3 photos for quality and focus
  • Remove 5 non-essential images or graphics
  • Review 3 charts or graphs to ensure they have been created accessibly
  • Scan a document using Microsoft Lens (or other optical character recognition software)
  • Review a PowerPoint for accessibility
  • Review the style formatting and structure of 4 documents/canvas pages
  • Change the font/text color on 3 documents/canvas pages to be more legible

Mid-Term Goals (Complete 3)

  • Caption a Video using Yuja
  • Make 1 documents accessible using Adobe Acrobat
  • Create an accessible document using the Microsoft Suite
  • Add alternative text to 2 images or graphics
  • Remove Watermarks and background images in 1 document
  • Adjust 1 graph to remove merged cells
  • Replace all instances of color-coding in 1 document, presentation, or canvas page
  • Locate 1 accessible version of an inaccessible document

Long-Term Goals (Complete 1)

  • Edit a transcript and re-upload it to Yuja
  • Provide Alternative text to all images and graphics in a Canvas module
  • Provide transcripts for all videos alongside captions in a Canvas module
  • Scan, edit, and distribute an accessible document
  • Change all inaccessible assessment tools in Canvas to accessible tools
  • Provide accompanying outlines with all PowerPoints in a module
  • Make an existing file accessible and redistribute

Guides and Resources

Have additional questions or need more support? Contact the Instructional Accessibility Group: [email protected].

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