From The ALT Text: An Overview of Selected Tools to Support Accessibility

'I have included some of the resources that I previously compiled and presented... [and] links to several excellent toolkits shared by several Canadian institutions.'

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...and... we're approaching 12-thousand unique readers with just over 28-thousand chapters read for Everyday Instructional Design!

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Woot! Let's keep this positive momentum going! It's been just a few weeks since we launched The ALT Text: Accessible Learning with Technology, and we've already hit 301 readers, and broken 1000 chapters read!

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From The ALT Text: Accessible Presentations

'Gillis (2023) describes... “death by PowerPoint” as ... “[when a] speaker fails to capture an audience’s focus and interest”... including the accessibility of presentations to audiences with various needs.'

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From The ALT Text: Making Your Text-Only Videos Accessible

'...the use of embedded text in a video is the same as embedding text within an image in a document.'

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From The ALT Text: Should You Use Color For Emphasis?

'The truth is... there are plenty of nuances to the “rules” around using color for emphasis of text in instructional design.'

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A Picture Isn't Always Worth a Thousand Words...

Sometimes Using Graphics Does More Harm Than Good

'...you need to think long and hard about the purpose and content of the graphic — not just about how the graphic will appear on the page or screen.'

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'The problem is... using simple “tricks” like aligning contents with tables, manually formatting text for emphasis, or manually inserting lines on your pages to create visual divisions between content can actually create more problems than they solve!'

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From The ALT Text: Are Your PDFs Accessible?

'So, how do you create your own PDFs that you know will be (at least somewhat) accessible, and okay to share with your students?'

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Helping Everyone Access Your Online Learning Resources

'I’m by no means an expert in all things digital accessibility — but... it is vitally important that I do the things that... can have a huge impact for all of my potential learners and colleagues.'

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From The ALT Text: Meeting Basic Accessibility Standards for Educators

'There are many things that we can do without any significant investment in either personal training or additional resources.'

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Feom The ALT Text: UDL and Accessibility

'So… what exactly is Universal Design for Learning? And how can it help us to create accessible learning opportunities with technology?'

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From The ALT Text: Barriers to Accessibility

Just because the Canadian federal government and some Canadian provinces have enshrined Accessibility legislation, does not mean “smooth sailing” for students seeking support in their learning journies...

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Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.

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The ALT Text: Digital Accessibility Regulations in Canada:

'For the most part, [these] standards have been adapted from the WCAG guidelines (W3C, 2022), and from the pioneering work of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA, 2005)'

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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) developed by the World Wide Web Consortium are the global benchmark when it comes to guidelines on how to make sure that digital content meets Accessibility requirements.
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'Let’s start with a few short videos... [and] readings that take a look at the impacts of different types of disabilities on student engagement and academic achievement...'

The ALT Text: Impacts of Technology on Engagement and Achievement

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