Accessibility

It is easy to get lost in the creation process and neglect some of the basic principles of accessibility. Before you start creating content using the listed tools above, please make sure you are adhering to accessibility guidelines to ensure all learners have equal access to your content. Below are some of the resources available to you to ensure this compliance. 

• Accessibility Basics for Digital Documents, an interactive tutorial 
• A Little Means A Lot: Simple Ways to Improve Course Accessibility
• Using ALLY in Blackboard to measure accessibility (what the scores mean): 
• Accessibility Cheat Sheet
• Using Ally’s Alternative Format Option to Access Course Content
• Using Microsoft Stream to produce videos with captioning: MS Stream tutorial
• Presenting Slides with Live Captions during Zoom meetings:  Automatic live captioning is not available via Zoom. One recommended solution is to use Google Slides in conjuction with Zoom. Live captions will appear as you present/share and will be visible to your audience via Zoom. To learn more visit Google Drive support: Present Slides with Captions.