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Yuja Panorama Accessibility Tool
Our institution recently acquire Yuja Panorama (Summer 2024) as a replacement for Ally to assist our d2l platform with accessibility. Learning about this new tool, we encounter some interesting thing and would like to learn from others who may have use this tool much longer than us. Wondering, if your school is using Yuja…
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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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Alt Text for Click Map
Hello Everyone, Our team is making click maps about how to use some of the Brightspace tools. I want to make sure our image alt text accurately describes the images of where the users need to click. For instance the attached image is showing to click on the course selector. My alt text would be - Navigate to course…
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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…
