Accessible Teaching in Line with Diversity Principles
Accessibility and diversity are key pillars of modern higher education. They enable all students to participate on an equal footing regardless of their background, abilities or circumstances as well as fostering innovation and strengthening educational justice. Various multipliers at the University of Bonn are on hand to provide support, information and assistance to make teaching as accessible as possible. This page has an overview of the various services.
Making teaching accessible
Looking to make your teaching as accessible as possible? Here you will find a list of our support services and help material.
Checklist for accessible Word documents
This checklist contains the criteria that a text document is expected to meet in accordance with the statutory provisions applicable to public bodies (based on the European standard EN 301 549).
Checklist for accessible presentations
This checklist contains the criteria that a presentation is expected to meet in accordance with the statutory provisions applicable to public bodies (based on the European standard EN 301 549).
“Digital Accessibility Toolbox” for ILIAS
The “Digital Accessibility Toolbox” on the eCampus learning platform offers a wealth of information on digital accessibility in teaching. It includes ILIAS training modules covering the basics, statutory obligations, assistive technologies, checklists, and much more.
Creating accessible instructional videos
The eCampus team offers a transcription service to create accessible teaching videos, which lecturers at the University of Bonn can task with subtitling their teaching materials.
The Confluence page can be accessed in BONNET or via VPN.
Guidelines and checklists from the Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit
The Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit (“Digital Accessibility Center of Expertise”) helps higher-education institutions in NRW to implement statutory digital accessibility requirements. Here you can find heaps of handy hints, sets of guidelines, checklists and other helpful material.
Testing the accessibility of digital tools
The Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit regularly tests the accessibility of various digital tools used in higher education. You can read the test results here.
Supporting students
If you are looking to support students with special needs, you can find links to the help and other services that the University provides.
Inclusive studying
Students whose studies are being adversely affected by a disability, illness, or learning difficulty can seek help and advice from the Representative for Students with Disabilities or Chronic Illnesses.
Contacts in the faculties
List of faculty representatives for students with disabilities or chronic illnesses, which can be accessed in BONNET or via VPN.
Accessibility at the USL
Information from the Bonn University and State Library (USL) on its services.
Audio system for hearing support
The eCampus team can loan out mobile audio systems on request to help students who use a hearing aid.
Advanced training on accessibility in teaching
Workshops at the BZH
Accessibility and diversity are cross-cutting issues and thus form an integral part of various workshops at the BZH, which also runs an annual workshop devoted to accessible teaching (usually in the winter semester).
Workshops and training from the Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit
The web page of the Kompetenzzentrum Digitale Barrierefreiheit (“Digital Accessibility Center of Expertise”) has details of various dialogue formats and continual professional development courses on digital accessibility, which are geared toward university staff and students.
Further information
Interested in learning more about accessibility at the University of Bonn? Here are a few web pages where you can explore additional aspects of accessibility and diversity.
Legal framework
Accessibility requires a legal framework in order to succeed. This is provided by various laws and agreements that higher-education institutions must abide by. The button below takes you to a Study Advisory and Counseling Service web page with an overview of the most important ones.
Accessibility Statement
You can read the University’s accessibility statement on this page and report any digital barriers that you have come across on the University website.
Inclusive university
Services offered by the University of Bonn to promote participation and inclusion regardless of sex, gender, age, background, religion, education, disability, or other individual characteristics. These services support study orientation and aim to maintain and improve the health and well-being of staff and students.
Equal Opportunity and Diversity Unit
The Equal Opportunity and Diversity supports, advises and connects organizational units, researchers and other University staff as part of various activities connected with equal opportunity and diversity.
Information in Confluence
Information, checklists, instructions, lists of contacts and links for more information in Confluence.
Accessible in BONNET using your Uni-ID or via VPN.
Links for more information
Structured collection of links, arranged by topic, in the "UNI-Studium und Lehre" space (University Teaching and Learning) in Confluence.
Accessible in BONNET using your Uni-ID or via VPN.
Contact
Please email the BZH at bzh@uni-bonn.de for anything to do with this web page.
For everything else, you will find the relevant contacts on the web pages linked to here.