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How to Make Your Online Course More
Accessible
Sandra A. RogersUniversity of South Alabama
“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…”
ADA Compliance
Describe images and hyperlinks. Use San Serif fonts for online
text. Check PDFs for accessibility. Caption audio and video.
Basic Guidelines
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
Accessible Hyperlinks
Add Link to eCollege
Add alternati
vetext here
PowerPoint 2010: Right click image > Select Format Picture > Select Alt Text. Write explicit description.
Accessible Images
eCollege: Insert an Image Screen
Add Description to Images
Add alternativ
e text here.
eCollege provides the following San Serif fonts: Arial, Comic Sans, MS Sans Serif, Segoe UI, Tahoma, & Verdana.
Use San Serif Fonts
eCollege offers these serif fonts in the Rich Text Editor that should be avoided: Courier New, Georgia, Garamond, & Times New Roman
Avoid Using Serif Fonts Online
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.
MS Accessibility Checker
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!
Don’t Use Scanned PDFs
Use Adobe Acrobat X (or XI)File>Action Wizard>Create Accessible PDFs> Action Step #5 is the Accessibility Checker
Repair Scanned PDFs
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.
Caption All Media
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
References
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.
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/