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While several federal laws address web accessibility, the most widely adopted and comprehensive technical standards have emerged not from a law, but from the W3C Web Content Accessibility Group. The WCAG standard is the most detailed, up-to-date guideline for creating accessible web content.

Another way to increase accessibility when teaching online.

In this free webinar, Inside Higher Ed editor Scott Jaschik and Technology Reporter Carl Straumsheim review the results of the 2014 Survey of Faculty Attitude on Technology. Closed captioning available.

This is a great reminder that tech tools need to be accessible to everyone. The bonus advantage to accessibility is that students with mobile devices have a better chance of taking part, now, too. -- Tom Educational innovations like the flipped classroom, clickers, and online discussions can present difficulties for students with disabilities. The issue was highlighted this month, when Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were sued for allegedly failing to provide such students with closed captioning for online lectures and course

The image used in this post is of a small group of students sitting in a room together, (seemingly) energetically talking about the issues at hand. This is an example of synchronous discussion-the students are in the same room, ostensibly discussing the same topic (the caption says they are "debating search engine liability," which sounds really interesting to me, at least).

This is a really easy program to create videos/screencasts. You get a link that you can post in course emails/announcements/assignments/syllabi, etc. It doesn't caption yet but I have put in the request for this feature. I use the free version.

This is a useful screen capture tool for making high quality lecture videos. The editing function is very user-friendly and accurate speech-to-text captions can be added.