Accessibility and universal design at the Faculty of Humanities

Universal Design Course

• What if all students had equal opportunities to learn? (Canvas)

Resource pages for HF

Procedures, responsibilities, and action plan (2024–2027)

• Action plan 2024 - 2027 (in Norwegian)
• Universal design - Roles and responsibilities at HF (in Norwegian)
• Administrative follow-up procedure (in Norwgian)
• Priorities and focus areas 2026–2027 (in Norwegian)

Training, e-learning resources, and workshops

• Universal design of documents and websites (uio.instructure.com, in Norwegian)
  Covers universal design, Canvas, Word, PowerPoint, and Inspera
• Ally – improving accessibility in Canvas (uio.instructure.com)
  For students, teachers, and administrators. Covers Ally in Canvas and PDFs
• Workshops at HF on universal design and accessibility tools.

Universal design in practice – with instructional videos

• The Canvas-editor (in Norwegian, with english subtitles)
• Ally (in Norwegian, with english subtitles)
• Word (in Norwegian, with english subtitles)
• PowerPoint (in Norwegian, with english subtitles)
• Using Acrobat Pro for OCR processing and making PDFs accessible (in Norwegian, with english subtitles)
• Contrast checking tools (in Norwegian)
• UiO software kiosk (view.uio.no)

Video, lecture recordings, and audio

• See Universal design of content and teaching materials (UiO)

External resources

• Guidelines from UU The Authority for Universal Design of ICT (UUtilsynet)
• Universal design, accommodations, and learning environment (HK-dir, in Norwegian)

Help

Contact HF:Studio:

• E-mail: hf-studio@hf.uio.no
• Phone: 228 54050 (Weekdays 8am-4pm)

Universal design at the University of Oslo

For more information, guidance, and available courses and training, see Universal design of ICT Solutions at UiO.