Accessibility in Online Classes

Introduction

Online courses provide learning experiences to a diverse group of learners, and it's important to create a course environment that meets the needs of those learners.  If you are curious how improving course accessibility affects your students the following resources may prove useful.

Overview of Accessibility

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Canvas

  • (see more Studio resources on the ETS Canvas Studio Page)
  • Most Common Issues Seen in Canvas
    • Using inappropriate text headings, bold, italics, etc.
    • Omitting alternative (alt) text for images
    • Using scanned PDFs without converting them to usable text.
    • Uncorrected Closed Captions

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Microsoft Office

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