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Home » Archives for August 2020

Archives for August 2020

August 19, 2020 By Sandra Childers

How to Create Accessible Links

Select the text that you want to make the link. I have chosen Disability Resources.

It is important to create accessible links throughout your documents and courses for your students. In this post, we’ll provide guidelines to help you create accessible links.

We’ll show several “bad” and “good” link examples to help you create helpful links for use in your documents and course web pages.

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August 17, 2020 By Sandra Childers

How to Create Accessible Images

Word Layout options for image set to In line with text. Inaccessible options under the with text wrapping heading.

Images meant to convey meaning must have an alternate or “alt” text descriptions. Decorative images must be marked as such so they can be skipped by screen readers.

Doing both ensures you will create a document with accessible images throughout.

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August 17, 2020 By Sandra Childers

How to Create Accessible Headings in Microsoft Word

ENGR XXX: Course Name Highlighted Text

Headings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or web page) to jump from heading to heading to find information.

When you create accessible headings, every student can scan your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.

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August 7, 2020 By Sandra Childers

High Quality Video Setup (Video Essentials)

Learn simple techniques in this video to create high quality video: workspace setup, lighting sources, web camera placement, and finally, quality audio.

4-minute video

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