Training courses on digital accessibility
Making online-supported teaching accessible (can be credited towards the ‘Zertifikat Inklusive Hochschullehre’ instead of the ‘Differentiation’ course).
Tuesday, 20.05.2025, 14:00-16:00 and Tuesday, 27.05.2025, 14:00-16:00 , additional asynchronous transfer tasks with a workload of 3 hours, online
Speaker: Michael Folgmann
Digital accessibility concerns services such as the university website, online courses with video conferencing and learning management systems, teaching videos, learning materials such as presentations and text documents, as well as interaction and collaboration tools such as Tweedback and Miro.
In this section, we look at selected tools and platforms as examples of how accessible design can enable the participation of a wider range of users, including the provision of subtitles and the design of DigiCampus and PowerPoint presentations.
Designing accessible Word documents in teaching and administration (can be credited towards the ‘Zertifikat Inklusive Hochschullehre’ instead of the online course ‘Designing accessible PDF documents in teaching and administration’)
Wednesday, 07.05.2025, 9:30-13:00 and Wednesday, 14.05.2025, 9:30-13:00, online, lecturer: Dr Sarah Böhlau
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Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 9:30-17:30, online, lecturers: Martina Haidl / Dr Alexander Pavkovic
Technical equipment/working materials required for the seminar:
Participants work together on their own PC with the MS Word programme.
Before the event, documents will be uploaded to DigiCampus under the ‘Files’ tab, which should be downloaded before the seminar.
Before the seminar, it is possible to send files from your working environment to the speakers, which can then be used as practical examples during the seminar.
Please send these to the e-mail address aleksander.pavlovic@bbsb.org at least two weeks before the seminar date.
- Teaching proper and efficient use of Word in compliance with accessibility guidelines
- What constitutes an accessible Word file and what types of barriers are there? (Illustration through practical demonstration of access to documents with screen reader and Braille display)
- Common formatting errors
- Display and meaning of formatting characters
- Working with format templates (headings, enumeration/numbering)
- Working with tables, graphics, headers/footers, footnotes/endnotes
- Problematic Word functions: Text fields, multi-column text, forms
- Export to PDF format
Designing accessible documents Word documents in teaching and administration
Thursday, 20.03.2025 9:30-17:30, online
Lecturers: Martina Haidl and Dr Alexander Pavkovic
The seminar deals with the creation of accessible and low-barrier documents for use in teaching and administration on the basis of Microsoft Word.
To this end, the legal regulations and basic principles of digital accessibility and their significance for the individual groups of impairments and disabilities will first be briefly explained. The problems of the various programme versions and the limits of digital possibilities are also discussed. In a second part, the individual steps in document creation are explained using specific examples.
Designing accessible PDF documents in teaching and administration (can optionally be credited towards the ‘Zertifikat Inklusive Hochschullehre’ instead of the online course ‘Designing accessible Word documents in teaching and administration’)
Wednesday, 21.05.2025, 13:00-15:00 and Wednesday, 28.05.2025, 13:00-14:30 as well as additional asynchronous self-study phases with a workload of 3.5 h, online
Lecturer: Dr Sarah Böhlau
The following seminar deals with the creation of accessible and low-barrier PDF documents for use in teaching and administration.
To this end, the legal regulations and basic principles of digital accessibility and their significance for the individual groups of impairments and disabilities will first be briefly explained. The problems of the various programme versions and the limits of digital possibilities are also discussed. In a second part, the individual steps in document creation are explained using concrete examples.
The aim of the course is not only the secure creation of accessible PDF documents, but also to raise awareness of the topic of digital accessibility as a whole.
