Understanding Student Needs
To consider the widest array of users is to understand the diversity of cognitive profiles and how each learner is unique in how one receives, perceives, processes, and produces information. One shortcut towards ensuring that your course is accessible by all learners is to design with the extreme ends of the user continuum in mind. SAS recommends learning about accessible and usable design practices, perhaps by starting with Microsoft Office tutorials, and employing and highlighting the use of accessible materials in your courses and other work.