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How to Make Your Online Course More Accessible

How to Make Your Online Course More Accessible. Sandra A. Rogers University of South Alabama. ADA Compliance.

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How to Make Your Online Course More Accessible

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  1. How to Make Your Online Course More Accessible Sandra A. Rogers University of South Alabama

  2. ADA Compliance “No otherwise qualified individual with a disability …shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…”

  3. Basic Guidelines • Describe images and hyperlinks. • Use San Serif fonts for online text. • Check PDFs for accessibility. • Caption audio and video.

  4. Accessible Hyperlinks Simplify information by providing the specific name of the Website. Good ex. Spring Hill College Online Bad ex. https://secure.ecollege.com/shc/index.learn?action=welcome

  5. Add Link to eCollege Add alternative text here

  6. Accessible Images PowerPoint 2010: Right click image > Select Format Picture > Select Alt Text. Write explicit description.

  7. Add Description to Images eCollege: Insert an Image Screen Add alternative text here.

  8. Use San Serif Fonts eCollege provides the following San Serif fonts: Arial, Comic Sans, MS Sans Serif, Segoe UI, Tahoma, & Verdana.

  9. Avoid Using Serif Fonts Online eCollege offers these serif fonts in the Rich Text Editor that should be avoided: Courier New, Georgia, Garamond, & Times New Roman

  10. MS Accessibility Checker MS Word 2010 & 2013 have accessibility checkers that will highlight any issues your document has. Select File > Info> Check for Issues > Check Accessibility. Then click on the various alerts within the document to repair the issues accordingly before saving as a PDF.

  11. Don’t Use Scanned PDFs Are your PDFs readable?Conduct a word search within the Find box of the PDF for a word you see in the document. If you receive the message, “No matches were found,” then the document is a scanned image, which cannot be read by persons who use assistive technology. Repair it!

  12. Repair Scanned PDFs Use Adobe Acrobat X (or XI) File>Action Wizard>Create Accessible PDFs> Action Step #5 is the Accessibility Checker

  13. Caption All Media • Use YouTube or other free captioning services. • If you don’t have your media captioned, at the very least, provide a script. • Provide closed-captioning, so users can regulate the captioning.

  14. Questions? Contact • Sandra Rogers, Instructional Designer • BL 113 • srogers@shc.edu • 251-380-4480

  15. References 2011 Captioning key: Guidelines and preferred techniques. (2011). The Described and Captioned Media Program. Retrieved from http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/captioning-key.pdf Best practices for captioning. (2011). KnowledgeBase. Madison: University of Wisconsin. Retrieved from http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=11956

  16. Evans, L., & Schmidt, D. E. Power points for all learners: Making accessible PowerPoint presentations. Chico: California State University. Freed, G., & Rothberg, M. (2006). Accessible digital media guidelines.National Center for Accessible Media. Retrieved from http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/accessible-digital-media-guide/ Sammons, M. C. (2007). The Longman guide to style and writing on the Internet. NY: Pearson.

  17. Technology and Information Accessibility Standards (Section 508). (2000). Access Board. Retrieved from http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/standards.htm Web Accessibility in Mind. (2013). Center for Persons with Disabilities. Logan: Utah State University. Retrieved from http://webaim.org/ Web content accessibility guidelines 2.0. (2008). W3C. Retrieved from http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG/

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