1. Accessibility on the BLE Linda O’Sullivan E Learning Manager SOAS lo10@soas.ac.uk 1

2. 2 Background Institutional Review 2012/13 CLA audit 2013 IR Report recommendations

3. Paper - Minimum Standards for VLE courses Opportunity to embed accessibility protocols Currently nearly through the committee structure Has been to Faculty learning and Teaching Committees twice Next step Learning and Teaching Quality Committee 3

4. Accessibility Statement Document formats accessible for screen readers Scanned reading to include descriptions, titles, links to catalogues where appropriate Links to accessibility information on the website 4

5. What we couldn’t manage to keep Files/lecture notes added before classes Reword information on the process for including cover sheets for scanned documents despite CLA recommendations. A requirement to link to online readings rather than scanned readings 5