Katie Healey, an education specialist with the UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness, is developing and leading a course to help instructors make their materials for the classroom and online courses accessible for students with disabilities. (Photo: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)

“As you can see from this slide…” may not be an uncommon expression used at lecterns to introduce an image. But in classrooms or online, not every student can see what’s on a screen well enough — or even at all — to learn from it.

To help overcome such problems, Katie Healey, an education specialist at the Center for Educational Effectiveness on campus, is designing and leading a Canvas-based professional development course to share best practices and equip instructors with the tools to make their materials for the classroom and online courses accessible to students with disabilities. She is creating video modules, publishing a monthly newsletter and hosting monthly meetings for about 120 instructors from all 10 UC campuses and beyond.

Katie’s A11Y Project is supported with a grant of $45,000 from the UC Office of the President’s Online Fund focused on digital inclusion.

Read more about Katie and the A11Y Project at UCnet

Editor’s note: This article was featured in the April 2025 issue of our systemwide staff newsletter, UCnetwork. Read past issues and subscribe.

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