Engineering Studio for Advanced Instruction & Learning
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.
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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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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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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 ReadingLearn 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 ReadingThe response by the College of Engineering and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) to the COVID-19 pandemic will be highlighted, along with groundbreaking research in the areas of virus testing, detection, destruction, and sterilization.
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In this panel, you will hear from our faculty who have successfully established and maintained industry consortia. They will share their experiences and you will learn how to start your own consortium and effectively engage with industry partners.
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Continue ReadingHear from our faculty who have received NSF IUCRC awards. They will share their experiences and you will learn how to prepare your own NSF IUCRC proposal and effectively engage with industry partners.
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Continue ReadingLearn 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 ReadingLearn 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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