Accessibility with online instruction...

Thinking about equity issues, the first one that comes to my mind is accessibility in online

instruction. I've worked at UK for a dozen years and most of that time was working for a singular program - an online master's degree. The cost of the program is definitely an equity issue, but one that our School has very little (if any) control over. Even regarding accessibility of course delivery, the unit itself has few options than you might think.

The primary example is the selection of the learning management system (LMS). The University of Kentucky recently transitioned to Canvas is its LMS. Therefore, that is the LMS used by my School. Being a modern LMS, Canvas does pay attention to issues regarding accessibility and provides an evaluation from WebAIM.org detailing levels of conformity with Level A and AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (v2.0). 

While this evaluation deals with Canvas at an overall level, there are still items faculty need to address when developing their courses. Working with students and faculty, as well as reviewing lists of best practices

• Stay up to date on issues related to accessibility and online course delivery (for example, create a Google News Alert)
• Provide alt text with images
• Use meaningful text for hyperlinks (Example, use "University of Kentucky Registrar" as the text for the hyperlink instead of "Click here".)
• Provide captioning for videos (Youtube: Add your own; Youtube: Use automatic captioning)

See also:

Accessibility within Canvas

W3C Web Accessibilit Initiative

W3C Accessibility Standard

University of Washington: Developing Accessible Websites

Penn State: Making MS Office Documents Accessible

Educause Review: ADA Compliance for Online Course Design