Accessibility training for public education

Who this is for

• Public K–12 districts and schools — teachers, coaches, curriculum staff, and the technology people who keep the learning systems running.
• ESEA Title I schools and Title I–related organizations — districts and campuses that receive Title I funds, and the grant-funded education entities, nonprofit partners, intermediate units, and program offices that help those schools teach.
• Public colleges — community colleges and public universities, where faculty and staff publish course materials and student-facing pages.

When this site says “Title I” in an education sentence, it means Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act. That is federal education funding. It is not Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is employment law. The comparison is on How the titles differ.

The same district is often a Title II public entity

Public schools, public colleges, and public universities are state or local government entities under Title II of the ADA. A district can receive ESEA Title I funds and still be a Title II public entity. Title I funding does not choose the web-rule date. Population does, and a school district is not a special district government. Those rules are on the government page.

Training for a district can cover both jobs at once: materials students use, and pages families and the public use. The role matrix shows which column applies.

What staff practice

• Documents and slides that go to students or families
• Course and LMS content
• Captions and transcripts for video and audio
• Family-facing and student-facing pages
• A review step before materials are released

Formats are a facilitated workshop, short sessions on a calendar you already have, materials a local facilitator can reuse, or a follow-up. For a marked-up sample or a written plan, see annotation and plan.