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Setting the Stage for Improving Accessibility of Online Courses
By Barry Dahl – October 3, 2016 TEST - First post in a month-long series around accessibility of online courses. This is the first blog post in a series of posts intended to help you improve the accessibility of your online courses. In this context, the word accessibility relates to making your online courses better for…
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What Value Can You Find in a VPAT?
By Barry Dahl – October 7, 2016 Third post in a series of #a11y for online educators. This is the third blog post in a series of posts intended to help online educators improve the accessibility of their online courses. In this installment, we’ll continue to look at the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) that…
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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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When Simple Alt Text is Insufficient
By Barry Dahl – October 13, 2016Fifth Blog Post in Series of Accessibility Tips for Online Teaching [BROKEN LINK]In the previous post, I tried to explain the basics about Alt Text for images used in online courses. However, some images are far more complicated than others, and require much more alternative information than…
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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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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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Six More Tips for Making Online Courses Accessible
By Barry Dahl – November 15, 2016 The final post of 12 in the series of posts about improving the accessibility of online courses. In previous posts we examined many of the accessibility tips for making online course content using HTML pages, Microsoft® Word documents, and Microsoft® PowerPoint® documents. In this final…
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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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What is a VPAT and Where Can You Find Them?
By Barry Dahl – October 5, 2016 Second post in month-long series on improving accessibility of online courses. This is the second blog post in a series of posts intended to help you improve the accessibility of your online courses. In this installment, we’ll take a look at a somewhat technical, and often over-looked aspect…
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Three More Ways to Improve Accessibility in your Brightspace Courses
By Barry Dahl – October 26, 2016 Post #9 in Accessibility series. Improving the accessibility of D2L Content pages. #A11Y Features built into the Brightspace platform can be used to enhance the accessibility of your online courses. In this post, we’ll look at three of those features. Color Contrast Checker There is a…