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Accessible Online Resources
Dennis Roebuck
Delta College
Rationale
• Vision Impaired Students
• Ensure text can be read by text-to-speech technology
• Provide audio when applicable
• Provide alternative text for embedded images
• Hearing Impaired Students
• Provide caption for videos
• Provide transcripts for videos
Documents
• Use sans serif fonts
• Use a size 12 or larger font
• Use pre-defined headings
• Use alternative text for images
• Use tables for data that should be read horizontally first
• Use columns for data that should be read vertically first
Presentations
• Use pre-defined slide layouts
• Use sans serif fonts
• Use tables/columns according to how the data should be read
• Use alternative text for images
• Avoid transitions and animations
• Avoid text bubbles, highlights, arrows, etc.
HTML Pages
•Use Header tags: <h1>, <h2>, etc.
•Use alternative text for images
•User descriptive hyperlinks… not just the URL
Images and Video
• Provide descriptive text for images
• Caption videos
• Provide transcripts for videos
• Avoid text bubbles, highlights, arrows, etc.
What is Delta Doing?
• Task force research best practices to be proactive…
• …and best resources to ‘fix’ what is already available
• Student Technology Fellows program being piloted to assist faculty/staff with technology related issues
What are you doing?
• Best practices?
• Policies/Procedures?
• Requirements of faculty who have online resources?
• Informing/Training content creators?
A Few Resources
•W3c Web Accessibility Initiative
•WebAIM
• Purdue University’s Web Accessibility Resources
•MCCVLC’s Resource List
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