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• 鈥渁11y鈥� stands for 鈥渁ccessibility.鈥� A numeronym is a number-based word with 11 for the number of letters between the letters a and y.

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• The universal icon for accessibility consists of an image of a person symbol.

• Accessibility is for everyone.

Accessibility ensures everyone can perceive, understand, engage, navigate, and interact with technology regardless of device, software, or product without barriers.

Learn more about what is Accessibility and Universal Design.

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Starting April 24, 2026, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will include specific guidelines about what makes digital content, including course materials, accessible.听听

These changes to the ADA apply to:

• Applies to Title II (public entities) like jmcomic漫画N
• New legal standard for web, mobile, documents, videos, and social media
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA
  • With specific exceptions
• Compliance date: April 24, 2026

Documents, Videos, Web, and Social Media

Documents

• Must be fully accessible
• New documents
• Documents "used to apply for, gain access to, or participate in ... services, programs, or activities"

Formats

• PDF
• Word processor
• Presentations
• Spreadsheets

Web

• jmcomic漫画N websites and web applications, including Canvas and course websites听

Videos

• Pre-recorded videos on a jmcomic漫画N website must have:
• Captions
• Audio descriptions available
• Live events must have captions

Social Media

• Posts beginning April 24, 2026
• Not responsible for platform

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Campus Digital Communications

• Marketing & communication emails
• Newsletters
• Flyers
• Event web pages
• Social media
• And more

Must be fully accessible

Faculty: all other course materials

DRES: physical textbooks for DRES students (and accommodations)听

NCOD: captioning videos (and accommodations)听

University Library: library materials and course reserves

UDC: support, tools & training

Textbooks

• Fall: April
• Spring: November

SAAS: check for emails from DRES and/or NCOD starting at least 8 weeks before the start of the semester.听Visit听.

Videos: to NCOD for captioning 6 weeks before showing.听Visit听NCOD Media Captioning.

Syllabus: 2 weeks before the start of the semester. Visit how to make an Accessible Syllabus.

Library: deadlines and turnaround times 听listed on

Course materials: accessible before the first day of classes

Quality Learning and Teaching (QLT)

Section 8: Accessibility and Universal Design

8.1 Universal Design for Learning: accessibility embedded in course design

8.2 (CORE) Syllabus include[s] links to the campus鈥� disability support services

8.3 (CORE) 85% or more of the materials meet standards for accessibility

8.4 [U]se officially supported campus technologies

• What is Accessibility and What is Universal Design
• Cidi Labs: Course Accessibility Report

Accessibility & Accommodations Work Together for Student Success听

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Accessibility

• Proactive
• Checklist of standards
• Section 508

听Accommodations

• Reactive
• Individualized
• Section 504

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Screen readers enable access to a computer and digital content by attempting to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the computer screen.

Screen readers can access and process live text (fully editable or selectable text) as well as roles, states and alternative labels provided within HTML.听

• Provides access for visually impaired users, to access content on the screen and understand the functionality associated to them.
• Offers same level of independence and privacy as anyone else.

Learn more about Screen Readers

Course Accessibility Report

The Course Accessibility Report within your Canvas courses is now powered by Cidi Labs鈥� 鈥淯niversal Design Online content Inspection Tool鈥� (UDOIT). Cidi Labs offers the same features as the previous tool, including alternate file formats, while adding new options to help you with the accessibility of your materials. While the familiar features are present, the interface is different; for example, the colored dials have gone away and the tool is accessed through the report in the course menu.听

PDF to a Canvas Page

Cidi Labs also lets you convert a PDF to a Canvas Page in one step. This won鈥檛 solve every PDF, and the Page still needs to be checked for accessibility, but this option may be a good alternative for some intractable files.

In the Review Files area, click Review. Next to "Canvas Page," click Request. Optional: Click the "Replace file with a Page" button to replace all instances of the file in your course with the new page.

See how it's done:

TidyUp

听finds unused files and pages within your Canvas course and helps you easily remove extraneous content.听

Use Accessibility Checker in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to check your email messages, documents, slides,听and spreadsheets for accessibility issues while you work. This way you can make sure your Microsoft 365听content is easy for people with disabilities to read and edit. Visit .

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Artificial intelligence (AI) can be a useful tool for accessibility, for example, describing complex images. However, AI tools themselves may have accessibility barriers. The University provides

Or you can use an external AI tool from Arizona State University's听听to describe complex images.

Visit UDC:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI), Accessibility, and Accommodations
• Describing Image Examples

Web Accessibility ensures everyone can access, understand and interact with digital content on the web, without barriers, and regardless of device, software, or product used.
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It requires implementation of best practices and criteria defined in in order to eliminate barriers from interacting and utilizing a webpage.

Please refer to Web Accessibility Criteria page to learn more about:

Alternative Descriptions and Multimedia:

images, user controls, captioning

Structure and Design:

Headings, color, links

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Visual focus, Tab order

Forms:

Instructions, labels, errors

WAVE庐听is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. Our philosophy is to focus on issues that we know impact end users, facilitate human evaluation, and to educate about web accessibility. Visit the .

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Use TPGi's free color contrast checker to optimize your content - including text and visual elements - for individuals with color-blindness or low vision impairments. Visit

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Important accessibility questions can be answered without any special software or training; we call this a basic or eight-point accessibility evaluation. You can use these evaluation techniques with most types of information and communication technologies (ICT) such as web pages, course materials, documents (PDFs, etc.), web and mobile applications, software, etc. If you are considering a product for purchase, a basic evaluation will provide useful preliminary information about potential barriers the product may present. Learn more about听Basic Accessibility Evaluations: 8 Questions

jmcomic漫画N is committed to making sure that campus technology and materials are accessible to everyone. The Universal Design Center (UDC)鈥檚 role is to provide tools, training, consultation, and support to help you make your course materials accessible for all of your students.

The Universal Design Center (UDC) is your campus resource for all things digital accessibility.

We offer accessibility training in a variety of formats: , training videos and resources, and Accessibility Canvas courses. The UDC team is available .

Want to learn more? Have questions? Need advice?听email听udc@csun.edu听or call us at (818) 677-5898.听The UDC team is available .

Academic Technology

Support and workshops on:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Canvas
• Panopto

Faculty Development

Workshops and resources on:

• Equity
• Implicit bias

Course Reserves & Curricular Resources (CR/CR)听

• Accessible copies of library database materials
• Accessible course reserve materials
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jmcomic漫画N has more options around captioning than ever!

If a class has a student with a relevant approved accommodation - whether the class will be taught live or feature pre-recorded videos - contact NCOD: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services ncod@csun.edu | (818) 677-2054

For instructor-created videos, start with Panopto, a service for faculty and staff that will caption videos automatically while offering a simple interface to edit captions. csun.edu/it/panopto

For all other instructional videos, contact NCOD: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services.

The Universal Design Center (UDC) offers training and resources to make videos accessible. Visit UDC Video page.听

If you鈥檙e using videos for instruction and they are not captioned, the University will caption them for you at no cost to your department. If you have a blind or visually impaired student, contact Disability Resources and Educational Services () or UDC about next steps. 听

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faculty should contact their assigned Instructional Designer.

You can鈥檛 build accessible content overnight. It鈥檚 making progress one step at a time. One small moment of victory propelling you forward to the next. Accessibility is a constant journey, not an end destination.听

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Textbooks

• Fall: April
• Spring: November

SAAS: check for emails from DRES and/or NCOD starting at least 8 weeks before the start of the semester. Visit .

Videos: to NCOD 6 weeks before showing. Visit NCOD Media Captioning.

Syllabus: 2 weeks before the start of the semester.听Visit how to make an Accessible Syllabus.

Course materials: accessible before the first day of classes

• Or prior to use

Library: see

• Canvas
• Course Accessibility Report (Cidi Labs鈥� UDOIT)
• Panopto (video captions and audio descriptions)
• Screen readers: JAWS, NVDA
• TidyUP

• Accessible Syllabus Template

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  • Live workshops every semester
  • Canvas courses
  • Video workshops
  • Website, slides & handouts
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• Faculty Development
• Faculty Technology Center (FTC)