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Managing requests and accommodation efficiently
How does your team manage accessibility requests and accommodations? Do you have a system in place to identify if a learner has specific requirements for different learning formats, such as online self-paced or in-person classroom sessions? Additionally, are you able to store this information for future requests so that…
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Best Practices for Conducting an Accessibility Audit in D2L
Hello everyone, I’m interested in learning more about how others approach conducting accessibility audits for D2L courses. Specifically, I’d like to know: - What steps do you typically take when auditing a D2L course for accessibility? - Do you rely solely on the inbuilt D2L accessibility checker, or do you also use…
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Accessible typefaces (eg Open Dyslexic)
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way for students to customise the way that text appears in Brightspace, apart from the font sizing? We have been informed that the web extensions like Open Dyslexic (and I think Bionic Reader) won't work with content in iframes, which is the majority of our content in Brightspace. Are…
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Informative SVG
We use SVG to signal to users specific content. For example, Important information, focus question, an (short) assignment, general information. Since these SVG's aren't purely decorative we want to make them accessible to screen reader users also. According to an article in Smashing Magazin about creating accessible SVG's,…
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Readspeaker vs. Free alternatives (NVDA, Talkback...etc.)
Hello, We are currently looking for ways to support accessibility within Brightspace. In your opinion/experience, what would a tool like Readspeaker add to Brightspace, if students can use NVDA, Talkback…etc.? Thanks in advance for the advice!
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Screen Reader Recommendations?
I have attempted to search through previous discussions to see if this topic was already addressed, but the search functionality is not easily navigable. I am wondering if people have recommendations for the best screen reader applications to use when testing course content to ensure accessibility compliance? Any other…
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Alternative text character limit
Hi all, I have noticed that when adding alt text to an image when uploading the alt text limit is 200 characters. However, when adding alt text to an existing image, there does not appear to be a character limit? Is this a bug? Is there a reason for this? While alt text should be succinct, I don't think 200 is a useful…
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Experience with Yuja Panorama with Brightspace?
Hi everyone! We have recently switched from Ally to Panorama and we are having some issues. I just wanted to know if anyone else had experience using Panorama in Brightspace, if they are also having issues, and how faculty and students are responding to Panorama.
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Is there any experience with Speechify?
Hi folks! Does anyone have experience with Speechify? While not a traditional screenreader, some learners are starting to use it because of the quality of the voices (like Snoop Dogg's!), it's ease of use, and the ubiquity of it being a browser extension. I appreciate the ubiquity of the browser-based screenreaders. When…
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Quiz and Screen Readers
Hi, I have been looking for information about any quiz-taking accessibility tips or issues regarding Screen Readers. I'm not looking for tools like ReadSpeaker, I'm looking for users who access the quiz tool using their own screen reader software such as JAWS, NVDA, or VoiceOver. What guidance can we provide such students?…
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