July 2025

Recently, at the 2025 Accessibility Summer Camp hosted by Wichita State University, we learned about AI tools and prompts you can use to support accessibility in your course. While some of the functions are straightforward, like using AI to write alt text, transcripts, or audio descriptions, we really liked the idea of using AI for perspective taking. Just like the Quality Matters Rubric guides you to look at your course from the student’s point of view, you can ask AI to review assignment instructions or syllabi from the student’s perspective. For example, “Review this lesson content from the perspective of a student learning English as a second language. Highlight vocabulary or idiomatic expressions that may be confusing, and suggest simpler alternatives or supportive resources.”

Check out the Accessible and Inclusive AI Toolkit by Kaitlin Garrett.

Are you looking for a structured way to foster transparency and specificity about the use of AI? Traditional citations don't really cut it when it comes to AI. Traditional citations refer to something fixed, while AI does not have a fixed output. 

We recently came across the Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework, an approach to articulating the ways in which AI tools have been used in research and writing. This approach recommends AID statements that indicate not just which AI tool was used but how it was used. For example in conceptualization, data analysis, interpretation, writing, visualization, and project administration. Check it out, whether for your own writing or for your students’. 

The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure (AID) Framework by Kari D. Weaver

Have you considered making lecture videos using AI generated video avatars? We get it— It's so easy and fast and means you don’t have to be on camera. 

But for the sake of your students' learning we encourage faculty to avoid this approach. Instructional videos using AI avatars have not been shown to be effective. Studies have shown the impact on learning to be neutral to negative. This may change as the technologies advance and more research is done, but for now we encourage restraint. 

Why AI Video Avatars are NOT the Next Big Thing in L&D by Heidi Kirby

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