Accessibility

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Easily Convert Images & PDF to Text with Google

Page scan, shared PDF, screenshot, photo of a brainstorm session on the white board… it’s easy to collect course content and notes that are not editable and not accessible. Luckily it is even easier with Google to extract uneditable text to a document through optical character recognition (OCR). As an automated process, OCR is not …

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Introduction to ALLY

Ally is a set of tools within Brightspace courses that helps instructors to make course content more accessible by delivering the following functionality: Automatically runs your course materials through an accessibility checker eliminating the need to use multiple checkers and tools. Provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to …

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PowerPoint Accessibility Module

This eLearning module will provide step-by-step instructions and best practices for making your PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities. When your slides are accessible, you unlock your content to everyone and people with differing abilities can read and use your slides. You learn, for example, how to add alt texts to images so that people using screen readers …

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