Universal Design for Learning

Prioritizing Access

Creating the Conditions for Learner Agency

By Beth Stark,Educator and Consultant.Inclusive Learning Systems, UDL, Accessibility

About This Resource

Poster titled Universal Design for Learning: Prioritizing Access, Creating the Conditions for Learner Agency. Three columns, one for each UDL principle, list the Access considerations. The full text follows in the text version. — The poster has a green border and three columns: Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression. Each column has a drawing of a brain with one network coloured in green, purple or blue. A yellow band across the middle reads Access Considerations. The footer gives the CAST reference. The full text is in the text version below. The poster shows only the top row of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0.

This is a shortened version of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0. It shows only the top row of the Guidelines, the Access row: one guideline from each of the three principles, with its considerations.

The full UDL Guidelines have nine guidelines and 36 considerations, across three rows: Access, Support and Executive Function.

Go to the full CAST UDL Guidelines

Also available as: Accessible PDF (2 pages, 732 KB) Visual version PDF (1 page, 518 KB)

How to Use This Page

The picture is the original poster. The text version below it has every word from the poster.
The guidelines and considerations use CAST's exact words and numbers.
Each consideration links to its page on the CAST UDL Guidelines website.
The visual version PDF matches the poster. Use the accessible PDF with a screen reader.
Links to other sites open in a new tab.

Text Version

Access

The top row of the CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0. The Support and Executive Function rows are on the CAST UDL Guidelines website.

Design Multiple Means ofEngagement

Drawing of a brain seen from the side, with the affective networks in the middle of the brain shaded green.

Affective networks: the why of learning

Design Options for Welcoming Interests & Identities (Guideline 7)

Design Multiple Means ofRepresentation

Drawing of a brain seen from the side, with the recognition networks at the back of the brain shaded purple.

Recognition networks: the what of learning

Design Options for Perception (Guideline 1)

Design Multiple Means ofAction & Expression

Drawing of a brain seen from the side, with the strategic networks at the front of the brain shaded blue.

Strategic networks: the how of learning

Design Options for Interaction (Guideline 4)

The principle, guideline and consideration names are CAST's own words from the UDL Guidelines 3.0, so they keep CAST's US spelling. The brain drawings and the network labels come from the poster. The CAST UDL Guidelines 3.0 website does not use these labels.

Reference

CAST (2024). CAST Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 3.0. Retrieved from udlguidelines.cast.org

This resource was created by Beth Stark, Inclusive Learning Systems. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0. The UDL Guidelines are © CAST.