Did you know we have 100+ software training videos? We’ve captured a lot since the beginning of our push to record more videos and they are all available for your here on the Software Training Video page in Kaltura MediaSpace. Here is a short description of the page channels and what videos you will find …
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 …
In the first Ally blog post, we discussed that Ally provides feedback on the accessibility of your course content and guidance on how to fix any identified accessibility issues. In addition, Ally provides instructors with a method for looking at the accessibility status of all of the items in the content areas of the course …
In the last blog post, we briefly discussed the generation of accessible alternatives such as audio, ePub, electronic braille, tagged PDFs, and HTML for viewing on mobile devices. This supports the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and allows students to choose the type of file that best suits their needs. The following video …
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 …
Let’s briefly chat about “Hyperlinks”. As you know, “Hyperlinks” are links from a hypertext file or document to another location or file. Linked information is typically presented in the form of text, websites, files, or video content. Accessible hyperlinks can be easily created. There are a few simple concepts to keep in mind as you …
Do you ever have trouble reading text in a document or on a website because there’s not enough contrast between the background and the color of the text? Do you find that the font style or the size is difficult to read? Does colored text or bolding help you to discern what is important in …
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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 …
Do you find yourself skimming through articles to find points of interest by using headers? Those headers are more important than you think! Let’s chat about why that is the case. “A heading describes the content that follows it, much like a news headline. When arriving at a new page, sighted users gravitate toward headings …
