ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a practical guide to approaching common accessibility challenges encountered by instructional designers (IDs). It shares proactive strategies for accessible course design as IDs are presented with case scenarios accompanied by solutions. Academic literature provides foundational course development practices that IDs apply when collaborating with faculty to make their courses accessible. The most common way to upload lecture slides to a course is to convert them into a portable document format (PDF). This is because most current web browsers can open PDF files and they are static across all operating systems, allowing them to appear as the creator intended. Course pages do not have to consist solely of text and images. Static content can be paired with interactive elements, but these are accompanied by unique accessibility challenges. Interactive learning objects are web-based objects that allow students to visually understand and virtually interact with phenomena that they learn about in the classroom.
