Instructional Design Blog
Posts tagged accessibility
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Evaluating Publisher Content for Accessibility
October 23, 2018
accessibility, publisher content
As an institution of higher education, we are required by law to ensure that our course content is accessible to all of our students. This includes everything from the textbooks and publisher tools to handouts and exams. Unfortunately, publish...
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Quick Tips Follow Up for Accessible CV and Syllabus [Video]
August 13, 2018
accessibility, PDF
To follow up on all the great work this spring from faculty in our college, I put together this short video presentation with a few quick tips that are especially relevant to CV and syllabuses. There are so many things to remember regarding ta...
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Understanding How Screen Readers Work [Video]
December 6, 2017
accessibility, screen readers
If you’ve been reading through the Accessible PDF series, you might be feeling a little exasperated with some of the extra steps required to create a PDF. To keep you from throwing up your hands and saying “Really, Jayna? Isn’t this a bit mu...
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Creating an Accessible Syllabus and CV, Part 2 [Video]
All right, so if you’ve made it this far, you should have a Word document that has been prepped for PDF conversion. I will briefly outline a few tips for exporting your document, but then we’ll go over how to interpret your accessibility repor...
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Creating an Accessible Syllabus and CV, Part 1 [Video]
Think of all the bazillions of different things you can do in a Word document. The options are limitless. But because we have that freedom, we don’t have an option for easily converting all documents to accessible formats. It’s important t...
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3 Visual Content Do’s and Don’ts
October 11, 2017
accessibility, visual content
There’s no question that planning a new course, or revising an existing course, takes a lot of time and energy. But as you are identifying instructional strategies and determining course content, have you considered the role that good visuals pl...
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Formatting Content Items in Blackboard [Video]
September 27, 2017
accessibility, Blackboard
With new digital accessibility laws taking effect in a few months, it’s a great time to start talking about a few quick changes we can make to help improve our course content. One of our challenges with Blackboard is that we actually have to...
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