Accessibility library
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Aira-Another Accessibility Offering from D2L
Aira – Another Accessibility Offering from D2L What is Aira? Aira is an assistive technology that helps users with vision loss get information about the visual world around them through their smartphone. The user could be trying to select a birthday card with a message they like or to find their favourite coffee shop in an…
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Alt Text for Web Page Images
What are Alternate Text Descriptions?Alt Text is the text-only information that is associated with an image for the purpose of providing information that is equivalent to the image itself. It’s used to provide information when images cannot be viewed; usually, when the person looking at the image has a visual impairment,…
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Compliance to accessibility standards in HTML-authored content
An accessibility checker is now available within the HTML Editor for use within Content, Widgets, Quizzes, Assignments, Calendar, Assignments, and any other tools where you can access the HTML Editor. The accessibility checker is available on the HTML Editor bar. After you add content to the HTML Editor, you can click the…
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Creating Accessible Course Content in Microsoft PowerPoint
By Barry Dahl – November 7, 2016 Blog Post #11 in Series of Accessibility Tips for Online Teaching. Only one more coming! Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation graphics program and similar programs are frequently used for creating course content in all levels of education. If those PowerPoint® slide decks are placed online…
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Creating Accessible Course Content in Microsoft Word
By Barry Dahl – November 1, 2016 Tenth post in Accessibility series. Improving the accessibility of D2L Content pages. #A11Y Many educators use one or more programs contained in Microsoft® Office when creating course content or other instructional materials for online courses. In this post we’ll focus on a few tips and…
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Creating Captions for Your Online Course Videos
By Barry Dahl – October 21, 2016 Post #7 in Accessibility series. #A11Y In the last post, we looked at techniques for finding videos with good captioning that you can use in your online courses. However, you just might want to create your own videos to make sure that the content is covered the way you prefer, and to put…
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Developing Accessible Content
While there are a number of factors to consider when developing accessible content, it’s important to remember that there are four major categories of disabilities that must be addressed. These include visual, auditory, motor, and cognitive impairments. Because each of these disabilities are so diverse, web pages require…
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Finding Captioned Videos for Your Online Courses
By Barry Dahl – October 18, 2016 Taking a first look at videos for online courses in post #6 of the accessibility series Videos seem to be playing an ever-increasing role in the delivery of online course materials. From step-by-step screencasts, to video interviews, to artistic or historical pieces; videos can be an…
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Four Easy Wins to Make Your HTML Content Pages More Accessible
By Barry Dahl – October 24, 2016 Improving the accessibility of online course content in post #8 of the series. #A11Y Earlier in this series of blog posts, we looked at online course accessibility concerns for third-party tools, simple and complex images, and video captions. This week we’ll focus on making HTML content…
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Improving accessibility through alignment with the latest standards
Originally published June 19, 2019 We are updating the accessibility level of our products to align with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA standards. This revision to the previous version – WCAG 2.0 Level AA – was published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in June 2018 and has stabilized in…