Your learners are tired, busy, distracted, and often consuming your content from a phone while juggling life. Accessibility isn't a "nice-to-have" — it's a learning superpower. In today's episode, Cassandra breaks down how to make your course more inclusive and easier to learn from, without adding tech overwhelm or doubling your workload.

If you want your students to complete your course, take action, and rave about the experience — this episode is your starting point.

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• Why accessibility benefits every learner
• Four simple accessibility wins you can implement today
• How navigation, clarity, and cognitive load impact course completion
• How to rethink workbooks, templates, and downloadable assets so students actually use them
• Why predictable structure = less overwhelm + more learning momentum

Timestamps

• 03:36 — Accessibility vs overwhelm — what it's not
• 04:34 — Accessibility Win #1: Provide content in multiple formats
• 05:58 — Accessibility Win #2: Simplify and standardize navigation
• 06:33 — Accessibility Win #3: Reduce cognitive load for the learner
• 07:42 — Accessibility Win #4: Make workbooks/printables usable, not decorative
• 09:42 — Cassandra's Conversation: Hiking the West Coast Trail & the beauty of disconnecting
• 14:56 — Reflection + reminder for the busy season

Try This After Listening

Pick one of the four quick accessibility upgrades and implement it this week:

🔹 Add transcripts or summaries

🔹 Standardize lesson structure

🔹 Break long videos into smaller parts

🔹 Increase font size & contrast in workbooks

Small tweaks = huge impact.

Links & Resources

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