The Digital Accessibility Badging program is a series of online, self-paced courses that provide members of the University of Minnesota community with the skills they need to create digitally accessible content. Courses in this series show how to be sure that your content is accessible and complies with University policy. Learn how to create accessible slide decks, web content, and more. Upon completion of each skill-specific course, you will receive a digital badge certifying your mastery of that skill.
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- Digital Accessibility: Foundations
- Learn what digital accessibility means, why it matters, and how it can be incorporated into your daily work. This course is a prerequisite for the Digital Accessibility Badging Program, but it does not carry its own badge.
- Digital Accessibility: Web Content
- Learn many aspects of adding content to a Google Site, with an emphasis on making the site accessible to the largest number of visitors. Learners who have created web pages using Drupal Lite 8 can also submit their work in this course in order to earn the Accessible Web Content badge. Prerequisite: Digital Accessibility: Foundations
- Digital Accessibility: Slide Presentations
- Learn the specific skills needed to create accessible slide presentations for live presenting and for sharing afterwards, using either PowerPoint or Google Slides. Prerequisite: Digital Accessibility: Foundations
Coming Soon
- Digital Accessibility: Documents (December 2019)
- Digital Accessibility: PDFs (December 2019)
- Digital Accessibility: Mass Email (Spring 2020)
- Digital Accessibility: Course Sites (Spring 2020)
- Digital Accessibility: Video (Spring 2020)
What's in the Digital Badge?
A digital badge is an image that carries metadata, validating the skills you demonstrated in a training. Digital badges are shared online through social media and other professional development platforms, such as LinkedIn. You can earn a digital badge that showcases your skills for each training course you complete after Digital Accessibility: Foundations.
These badges will be available in Spring 2020. If you complete training courses now, you will receive the relevant badge for the training as soon as it becomes available.
Further Information
Learn more about the Digital Accessibility Badging Program.