Accessibility

The Accessibility category serves as a single point of access to three avenues in Brightspace Community leading to the Accessibility Academy, Accessibility Library and Accessibility Discussions. These avenues offer courses and articles about accessibility to enhance accessibility knowledge and a group of accessibility enthusiasts to stay connected with.
 
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  • Custom captions for YouTube

    When using the Upload/Create>Video or Audio option in Content to insert a video from YouTube, is there a way to add our own caption file (SRT or VTT)? I know this can be done when uploading a file. YouTube has removed the Community Captioning feature which we used in the past to add correctede captions to videos that our…

  • Can a user access D2L from another country?

    A student will be traveling to Japan next week. Will they be able to access Brightspace from Japan?

  • Voice-to-text option in D2L as an ADA accommodation

    Hi! I hope you are doing well. I am an instructor in Texas. I have a question about ADA accommodations for users with carpal tunnel conditions. I have a range of tools I use for this condition. In particular, I have used voice-to-text software for many years. My college just switched from Blackboard to D2L Brightspace last…

  • FREE Webinar--Expanding the Reach of Accessibility within Brightspace

    Join this free webinar hosted by ReadSpeaker! Feb 23, 2023 @ 2:00 PM EST Expanding the Reach of Accessibility within Brightspace https://app.livestorm.co/readspeaker-llc/expanding-the-reach-of-accessibility-within-brightspace

  • Wow...turns out I can't delete an item in the New Community

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  • Seeking Photo Roster Tool for Faculty Only

    Hello, I wanted to reach out to ask if anyone might be familiar with an available tool that can provide a photo roster for faculty access only? (ie: the instructor would directly upload photos of students for roster management purposes, and students would not have access to this). Thank you in advance.

  • Ally Video Captions

    Hi, My Ally report shows two (2) videos without closed captioning. However, both the videos it flags do indeed have closed captioning. Is this a known bug? Thanks, Jim...

  • Ally reporting contrast issues with Brightspace

    Hi, When I run the Ally report, it shows 2 contrast issues on one of my discussion topics. They are with the light gray "Learning Objectives" and "Completion Summary" tabs. So, I cannot fix these issues. If I am logged in as a student, these tabs do not appear, so ll is well. I was told by my support staff that Ally only…

  • D2L Quiz Accessibility question

    Prior to selecting any of the radio buttons for a setup like this, the screen reader at the moment says: "The Subtotal functions performs these aggregations: Summing, radio button, not checked, Summing. Averaging, radio button, not checked, Averaging" and so on. It reads each option twice. Once when it announces the radio…

  • How can I add an alt tag to an image?

    I want to ensure that my images are accessible for all my students and those who use a screen reader. How do I do this?

  • What should be the heading level in a D2L rich text field?

    When a course author wishes to structure a portion of a D2L page with headings, what is the correct level to use as the first heading? I assume that in the iframe of a Daylight content page, the html page used should have an h1 as the first text element. But what about: * A home page widget? * An announcement in the…

 

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