Embedding Digital Accessibility and Inclusive Design Competencies into Curricula

In this session, educators will consider a proof of concept of curricula that integrate digital accessibility skills and inclusive design in discipline-specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA). As part of a Teach Access-funded research study, presenters share details of their project that spans two semesters (AY2023-2024) of revisions to existing online graduate and faculty training courses through backward design, the ADDIE instructional design process, and design thinking. In alignment with the Teach Access mission to enable learners as builders of an inclusive world, this session will share both processes and products of their project, along with research-based frameworks and outcomes related to learners’ KSA of accessibility and inclusive principles and connections to their discipline-specific careers.