Using AI for Course Accessibility

Explore AI tools that support course accessibility, with hands-on examples and practical ideas for applying them to your content.

Curious about how you might use AI to help meet course accessibility needs? In this session, we’ll identify some AI tools that can help speed up the process of making your course accessible, such as tools that help with writing alternative text for images, tables, and diagrams. We’ll have opportunities for trying out tools and discussing how to address challenges particular to your course content.

Meet your facilitator

Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard

Education Technology Specialist Office of Academic Innovation, Portland State University

Ashlie has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design, online program development, and higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer, educational product and curriculum developer, and has taught language arts, composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions at the K–12 and college/adult levels. She has strong interests in equity, accessibility, social justice, and student-centered, inclusive learning, and is curious about how AI can be used to support these aspects of education.