Learn how to design instructional materials for everyone in your diverse community on this week’s FREE NCompass Live webinar, ‘Creating Accessible Materials for Library Instruction’ on Wednesday, July 22 at 10:00am CT.
Instruction librarians are often limited to a single one-shot information literacy session for each class they work with. Librarians can expand the impact of their instruction outside of these short workshops by providing students with access to their presentation slides, worksheets, and other supplemental materials after a session. These instructional materials should be designed with accessibility in mind to ensure that they are useful for a diverse group of learners. This presentation will provide attendees with information about why accessibility of instructional materials is important, best practices for creating accessible documents, and freely available tools for accessibility testing. It will include information about choosing an appropriate file format as well as considerations for making common file formats more accessible (MS Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, etc.). While the presenter works in an academic library at a public university, this presentation is suitable for librarians, library staff, and LIS students who work in a variety of library contexts. Anyone who teaches, is interested in teaching, or wants to learn more about creating accessible presentations, documents, and other media will find something useful from this presentation.
Presenter: Elisabeth White, Science, Technology, and Mathematics Librarian,
Towson University.
Upcoming NCompass Live shows:
- July 29 – Pretty Sweet Tech – Technology vs. Human Values: How To Take Control
- Aug. 5 – The Kreutz Bennett Donor-Advised Fund: Grants to Nebraska’s Small-Town Public Libraries
- Aug. 19 – Drive-Thru User Testing
For more information, to register for NCompass Live, or to listen to recordings of past events, go to the
NCompass Live webpage.
NCompass Live is broadcast live every Wednesday from 10am – 11am Central Time. Convert to your time zone on the
Official U.S. Time website. The show is presented online using the GoToWebinar online meeting service. Before you attend a session, please see the
NLC Online Sessions webpage for detailed information about GoToWebinar, including system requirements, firewall permissions, and equipment requirements for computer speakers and microphones.
