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These are faculty tutorials geared toward teaching about accessibility. These help faculty improve the accessibility of online course materials.
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 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
Continue ReadingBy law, we must caption the videos we provide students with 99% accuracy. YouTube and other auto-captioning services may only provide 60-70% accuracy. Being proactive and striving for 99% accuracy in your captions helps all your students access your every word.
This video provides a quick overview of how to edit the auto-captions created with Mediasite and YouTube.
4-minute video by Lani Draper
Continue ReadingLearn how to enable Closed Captioning and Live Transcripts in Zoom. “View Full Transcript” allows students to see the full transcript from start to finish on the right during your Zoom session.
1-minute video by Daniel Mikals
Continue ReadingThis tutorial provides answers about video captioning and gives you the tools you need to get started with the video captioning process.
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