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Home » Blog » Faculty Tutorials » Accessibility

Accessibility

These are faculty tutorials geared toward teaching about accessibility. These help faculty improve the accessibility of online course materials.

September 29, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Create an Accessible Word Document

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Following this guide will help you create an accessible Word document for all your students. Using accessible course materials is essential, so every student has an equitable chance of succeeding in your online course(s).

Apply each element to greatly impact the accessibility of your documents.

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September 1, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Convert a Word Document into an Accessible PDF

Below the Save as type dropdown, there's another place to insert a Title. This again is the document title.

This tutorial provides instructions for how to convert a Word document into an Accessible PDF. Use the Save As feature only, as the Print to PDF and Save as Adobe PDF features will not produce an accessible PDF file.

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August 17, 2021 By Sandra Childers

How to Add a Document Title into a Word Document or PDF

A missing document title is likely one of the most common accessibility errors found in PDFs uploaded to Canvas. It’s 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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November 11, 2020 By Sandra Childers

How to Create Accessible Tables in Microsoft Word

On the Insert tab, select the Add Table button, 2nd from the left.

Learn how to create accessible tables in Word so students can easily understand your data, regardless of their abilities or disabilities.

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October 13, 2020 By Sandra Childers

Contrast & Color Accessibility

Good and Bad contrast examples accompanied by their contrast ratios. White on off-white is horrid at 1.12 to 1. Red text on yellow is also bad at 3.72 to 1. On the contrary, dark blue on light blue has a good contrast at 5.24 to 1, black on a light purple has a better contrast at 13.9 to 1, and white text on a black background has the best contrast at 21 to 1.

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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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

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

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Headings allow students using screen readers to access and navigate an index-like structure of your Word document (or webpage), so they can jump heading-to-heading to find information.

By creating accessible headings, we allow every one of your students to scan through your documents, regardless of whether they can see the content.

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May 21, 2020 By Sandra Childers

Part 2: How To Make Accessible Online Courses

In this video, you’ll learn about the most impactful ways to make accessible online courses.

We’ll discuss alternative (or “alt”) text, contrast ratio, closed captions, and audio transcripts in detail. All of these components are important for ensuring the accessibility of your courses and course materials.

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May 21, 2020 By Sandra Childers

Part 1: Why Should We Develop Accessible Online Courses?

This video describes the importance of developing accessible online courses. Providing accessible course content and materials helps everyone taking your course, not just those with disabilities.

By keeping accessibility in mind while you develop your online courses, you’ll be more prepared and less likely to need last-minute accommodation revisions. Most needs will be built-in already.

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