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Digital Accessibility Tip: Accessible Links
What is an Accessible Link?
Links are one of the foundational elements of digital content. They are found on websites, online courses, apps, and email. Accessible links connect concise and descriptive text to a website or file. They make it easier for everyone to navigate and consume content.
Digital Accessibility Tip: Alternative Text
What is Alternative Text?
Alternative text is a concise description of an image embedded within a webpage’s code. The description is read aloud to visually-impaired viewers using a screen reader. Its primary purpose is to provide context and meaning to users who cannot see the image. Alt text also provides a fallback in case the image fails to load and plays a role in search engine results. (Alternative Text from WebAIM)
Free Accessibility Courses for UIS Faculty & Staff
The digital accessibility requirements in Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (2024) are broad and impact digital files shared across campus. Given breadth of these requirements, accessibility will become part of our daily work. As we advance in our accessibility compliance efforts, it will be essential for those of us creating shared documents, recording videos, and managing websites to understand the guidelines for producing accessible content.
Video Captioning Kaltura
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service to learn about the requirements for creating closed captions and how to add captions to a video in Kaltura Media, the UIS streaming video platform.
Fix it: Making Links Accessible
Join the Office of Digital Accessibility and Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service to learn about creating accessible web links in Microsoft Word and Canvas courses.
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Carey Applegate, Ph.D.
Director, Digital Accessibility
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Fix it: Alt-Text in Microsoft Word and Canvas
In October, the Office of Digital Accessibility (ODA) and COLRS will share an accessibility tip on writing and including alternative text for images in Microsoft Word and Canvas content.
Join us to learn about creating useful alt text for images.
Fix It: Color Contrast in PowerPoint & Canvas
In case you missed it, last week the Office of Digital Accessibility (ODA) and COLRS shared an accessibility tip on Color contrast in files and Canvas content.
Several aspects need to be considered when we talk about color contrast, including: ratios, text size, images of text, and non-text guidelines.
Join us to learn how to check for successful color contrast and fix issues in PowerPoint and Canvas.