Resource
Practical and visual guidelines for creating teaching materials and interactive systems that are flexible, legible and multisensory.
Recommendation
It is recommended to make available to every student, including those with a visual impairment, every teaching material, system or resource with flexibility of choice and the possibility of personalising the interaction, in order to guarantee access to information with autonomy.
The recommendations were formulated in Brazilian Portuguese. This is a faithful working translation; the Portuguese version is the canonical one. Read the original in Portuguese
Responsibility
Every manager, teacher, content author and instructional designer.
- Manager
- Teacher
- Content author
- Instructional designer
Opportunity
Every teacher has the opportunity to make the teaching material, system or resource available in advance (at the start of each teaching week), in line with the choices and personalisation agreed during the communication between teacher and student.
Applicability
Do
Provide materials in several accessible formats (text structured in HTML, screen-reader-compatible files, and audio) and send them in advance. Make sure the system allows the interface to be personalised, with zoom and colour inversion.
Don’t
Publish content locked into a single rigid format (scanned PDFs or closed platforms) that prevents enlarging the type, changing the contrast or navigating by keyboard.
Examples
An example of a lesson interface offering the same content in several formats (buttons: "Read in HTML", "Listen to the audio", "Download an accessible PDF"). This lets students choose the interaction that best suits their assistive technology and their needs.
An example of an embedded viewer with no native accessibility controls, locking text resizing and making it impossible for screen readers to extract the information from the material.