Resources, videos, and best practices for designing and building accessible documents, closed captioning and more.
Students can access content in a way that suits their needs best, whether it is an html page (responsive for mobile), epub, and/or mp3 (audio) or, for more direct accessibility support, a tagged pdf and/or electronic braille format.
What is "essential for some is good for all." (Meyer, A., Rose, D. H., & Gordon, D. (2014). Universal Design for Learning: theory and practice. Wakefield, MA: Cast Professional Publishing)
FACULTY: improve the accessibility of HTML/web page content in D2L Brightspace, using this guidance to fix errors identified by Ally.
Ally's integration with D2L allows faculty to quickly see the scores on individual content items within D2L content.
Blackboard Ally has a Course Accessibility Report available to faculty. The report is helpful to point out accessibility issues within documents that could be improved on from an accessibility perspective. Ally will give the explanation and steps on of how to fix the issue.
Quick video introduction of Anthology Ally and its components.
Closed captioning resources for MediaSpace, Zoom web conferencing, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and VoiceThread within D2L BrightSpace.
Anyone can create accessible content in Microsoft Word using several built in tools.
FACULTY: use the built in accessibility checker to make sure HTML files/web pages in D2L are accessible.
Learn more about document design and building accessible documents.
Auto Generated captions in MediaSpace can be edited to increase the accuracy.
FACULTY: Order your own captions for your MediaSpace videos with this simple workflow.
Center for Accessibility Resources
This is an article for faculty, staff, or students and demonstrates how to turn on captions for a VoiceThread. VoiceThread is a multimedia instruction, presentation, and discussion tool used in D2L Brightspace.