What can you do?

Learn more about ableism, disability justice, and why the movement from a disability rights model, is necessary to improve equity in higher education.
Adopt UDL practices when creating materials and experiences in your courses.
Practice asking yourself and your colleagues UDL-oriented questions as you design course materials and OER.
Connect with disability and accessibility support at your institution as you design course materials.
Help your colleagues make connections between culturally responsive teaching, universal design and open education and how these approaches can work together to serve students.

Resources

Revisit these as needed. Some are openly licensed, so feel free to adopt/adapt them at your own institution.

Accessibility Tutorials and Accessibility Handbook from PCC that provide step-by-step instructions, tutorials, and videos - but also nice print-ready handbooks with quick instructions for each of several areas related to online content accessibility.
Course Materials Adoption Best Practices from Open Oregon with checklists
UDL on Campus is a collection of resources to help address Accessibility and Open Educational Resources.
B.C. Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit offers information on Universal Design, use of personas, best practices, and more.
Flexible learning for open education from the Inclusive Design Research Centre in Ontario highlights research into areas such as preference management tools and sonification of data but also provides an inclusive learning design handbook.
Backward Design and Worksheet from Refocus
Academic Ableism by Timothy Dolmage. Often UD work is framed in terms of eliminating or reducing structural barriers. Common examples of UD solutions are putting in curb cuts and height adjustable surfaces or ensuring alignment with WCAG in the digital environment. However, UD isn’t limited to solving structural barriers. UD helps address attitudinal barriers and assumptions that can limit expectations. Check out this great read on this more expansive view.
Accessible Syllabus Slide Deck from PCC, with links to robust resources
Refocus 2.0 A Disability Resource Professional’s Toolkit