Learn the advantages of enabling Zoom in Canvas and eCampus. Students can attend your sessions and watch your recordings without ever leaving their course.
6-minute video by Gerry Pedraza
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Accessibility Tips for PowerPoint
This webinar will help you better understand how to make PowerPoint presentations accessible for all of your students, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
25-minute video by Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word
Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.
Continue ReadingContrast & Color Accessibility
Contrast is a measure of the difference in perceived “luminance” or brightness between two colors.
This brightness difference is expressed as a ratio ranging from 1:1 (e.g., white text on white background) to 21:1 (e.g., black text on white background).
Learn some contrast and color accessibility guidelines and how to ensure you’re using colors all your students can see when creating documents.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Links
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.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Images
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.
Continue ReadingHow to Create Accessible Headings in Microsoft Word
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.
Continue ReadingHigh 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
Continue ReadingPart 2: How To Make Accessible Online Courses
Learn about some of the most impactful ways to make online courses accessible. Topics discussed: alternative (or “alt”) text, contrast, closed captioning, and transcripts. These essential components help ensure the accessibility of your courses and course materials.
4-minute video by Lani Draper and Sandra R. Childers
Continue ReadingPart 1: Why should we develop accessible online courses?
Learn the importance of developing accessible online courses. Providing accessible course content and materials help all your students, not just those with disabilities.
3-minute video by Lani Draper and Sandra R. Childers
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