This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document to an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As of Save a Copy feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.
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These are faculty tutorials geared toward teaching about accessibility. These help faculty improve the accessibility of online course materials.
How to Add a Document Title into a Word Document or PDF
A missing document title is one of the most common accessibility errors found in PDFs uploaded to Canvas. It is also one of the simplest to fix (if you know how to do it).
This tutorial provides instructions for how to add a document title into a Word document and a PDF.
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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.
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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.
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 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
Continue ReadingEditing Captions with Mediasite & YouTube
By 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
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