The document provides tips for making multimedia content accessible to all. It recommends using descriptive file names and URLs, standard formatting and heading styles, transcripts or captions for videos, adding alternative text and descriptions to images, considering colorblindness and visual learners in design, and using tools like OCR and accessibility checklists. The tips are aimed at ensuring content is understandable and usable by everyone regardless of ability or disability.
4. File Names
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• File names should not contain:
• spaces
• special characters
• File names should be:
• concise
• generally limited to 20–30 characters
• Lastly, does the name make the contents of
the file clear?
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8. Formatting
Documents should utilize recommended fonts:
• Times New Roman, Verdana, Arial, Tahoma,
Helvetica, or Calibri
Document should be formatted using Style
Elements:
• Heading 1, Heading 2, BodyText
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14. Captioning
Videos should utilize:
• Transcripts or Closed Captioning
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Captioning benefits Everyone:
• Improves comprehension of, attention to and
memory for the video
• Beneficial for non-native speakers
• Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Can watch when in a location with audio
issues or where silence is required
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18. Graphics
Images used should include:
• Alternative text
• Image Descriptions
• Decorative images should be labeled
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Icons may be used to breakup the the text
Icons may be useful for visual learners
Icons should be marked as decorative images
30. • File Names
• URL links
• Formatting
• Captioning
• Graphics
• Design
• Use OCR for PDFs
• Use ADA Creation Checklist
Other things to consider:
Design Cycle - build-in accessibility from the start
Color blindness - don't use color to represent ideas
Visual learners - use icons to break up text
31. Recap
• File Names
• URL links
• Formatting
• Captioning
• Graphics
• Design
• Use OCR for PDFs
• Use ADA Creation Checklist
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Other things to consider:
Design Cycle – build-in accessibility from the start
Color blindness – don’t use color to represent ideas
Visual learners – use icons to break up text
Editor's Notes
I will share specific examples of how, why and which steps to take towards improving ADA compliance in course design. I will also identify some modifications faculty can make when creating and sharing content.
Creating online courses that are accessible to all students regardless of age, ability, or life situation can be challenging. We will explains some of the ways course content can be made accessible, benefiting all students, regardless of ability. We will review online course design, giving practical advice on making courses more accessible, the various technologies that enable access, and the barriers that can inadvertently block student engagement. Throughout the presentation, we will provide specific examples of accessibility when creating and managing online content through various software, word processors, Acrobat Pro and the Learning Management System (Blackboard)
File Name Check list -
Does the document file name not contain spaces and/or special characters?
Is the document file name concise, generally limited to 20–30 characters, and does it make the contents of the file clear?
When we see “www.nytimes.com/”, we see the words ‘NY’, ‘Times’ but a screen reader is going to read the URL letter-by-letter. “Double-U, Double-U, Double-U, Dot, N-Y-T-I-M-E-S , Dot…etc”
As you can imagine, this becomes unintelligible after the first 4-5 letters.
URL Check list:
Do all URLs contain descriptive hyperlinks (i.e., avoid generic phrases like “Click here” and, instead, use phrases that let users know about the content of the linked page prior to selecting it)?
Are all URLs linked to correct Web destinations?
Simple document – similar to a course syllabus we see on a regular basis. We tend to Break up the Text and format it using the Bold, Underline and size options. However, we are only formatting “body text”. A screen reader will read it start to bottom without any pauses or navigation.
Using the Formatting Styles in MS Office and similar programs will provide the same look and feel, however, it will program the document in a way for assistive technologies to read the document in a more natural rhythm, pausing at headings, and providing the user with a navigation pane that they can jump to a location instead of hearing the entire document each time it needs to be reviewed.
Captioning benefits everyone:
- Improves comprehension of, attention to and memory for the video
- anyone with defective computer audio
- students needing to learn new terminology or learning a new language
viewers in a noisy room or with a sleeping roommate or partner
Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Youtube has automatic captioning. If you are the owner of the video content, you can upload it to your YouTube Channel, and YouTube will do a rather excellent job transcribing and close captioning the video.
If there are errors (popular with mis-spellings of names), as the owner of the video, you can go to the Video Manager section of YouTube and edit the text and captions, then save to re-publish with the changes.
When images included in electronic media, document, pdf, website (alternative text required).
Breaking up text, or using icons are great for Visual learners
For icon use (tag it as decorative) – Light bulb might represent ideas, but hearing “lightbulb” on assistive technologies like a screen reader may seem obscure.
Use of Handwriting is Unacceptable – this electronic administered document / scan is illegible to those even without visual impairment
Consider eliminating the content, re-creating it, or finding an alternative that is related and appropriate.
Avoid color as a representation of an idea
Color blindness is something to consider
How it might look to color blind (both gray)
X and Check – symbols might help
But why not just explicitly say No, Yes?
“If your content isn’t accessible, you are creating barriers & making their impairment a disability”
Disability never holds anyone back, disability is not something that people need to overcome. The barriers that exist are created by society… “ - Haben Girma
Recpa:
Wrong type of URLS http://saldkfjasf.com/safB0xc
Don’t type “click here” – be specific give the link meaning
– add (PDF) to the URL
Alt tags for images
Icons for visual learners
Heading titles – bold and color differentiate but do not work…
Avoid color as a representation of an idea
Up and down arrow
Check and x In color
How it might look to color blind (both gray)
OCR – optical character recognition
Acceptable PDF / scan vs unacceptable