Lecture Accessibility

The practice of designing and delivering lectures and associated educational materials so that they are usable by students with disabilities, including those who are blind, have low vision, are deaf, or have other impairments. Lecture accessibility encompasses multiple dimensions: making visual content available through alternative text descriptions and audio descriptions, providing synchronised transcripts and captions for video content, ensuring learning management systems and video platforms are compatible with screen readers, and designing slides with adequate contrast and structured headings. The shift to digital and video-based learning since the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified these challenges, as lecture recordings often contain dense visual information (diagrams, formulas, charts) that is not conveyed through the audio track alone.