Accessibility Best Practices for Online Learning Content
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The document provides an overview of an accessibility webinar that discusses how to create accessible learning content. The webinar objectives are to learn and share knowledge about accessibility best practices, understand how digital accessibility affects user interactions with libraries, and provide an opportunity to discuss tips for creating accessible materials quickly. The webinar covers why accessibility matters, universal design for learning principles, specific accessibility best practices like alternative text, captions and transcripts, and tools and resources for creating and checking accessibility.
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Accessibility Best Practices for Online Learning Content
- 1. Accessibility Tips: How to create accessible learning content TRAILS Webinar September 2020
- 2. Jacqueline L. Frank Instruction & Accessibility Librarian jacqueline.frank@montana.edu Your Presenter
- 3. Objectives • Learn & share knowledge on accessibility best practices for creating learning content • Understand how digital accessibility affects the ways users interact with libraries • Provide opportunity to converse, share tips, advice, and information on how to get started creating accessible materials quickly.
- 4. Outline • Why Accessibility Matters • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) • Accessibility Best Practices • Examples of how to use them in Word • Accessibility checker for Word & Adobe Pro • Tools & Resources • Accessibility checkers • Instructions by document type • Montana Talking Book Library
- 5. Why Accessibility Matters How digital accessibility affects the way users interact libraries.Poll question!
- 6. 19% Undergraduates with a disability (NCES) 100% Will experience a disability in life. (Access Lab) 26% People with a disability (CDC) Why Accessibility Matters
- 7. Why Accessibility Matters, cont. (Microsoft Inclusive Design Toolkit) (Access Lab)
- 8. Access as Student Success • Student success hinges on access • Without access, students will not fully succeed. • As instructors, we strive to support student success, not hinder it.
- 9. Accessibility for All: Everyone Benefits • Automatic door openers • Closed Captioning • Noisy environments • ESL learners • Help follow along in lecture • Multiple Instruction Formats • Watch, Listen, or Read transcript for a recorded lectures or video • I like to listen to webinars while taking my dog for a walk.
- 10. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)Group Discussion: Who can offer a brief description of UDL, and how you think it differs or relate to accessibility?
- 11. Accessibility Vs. UDL • What’s the Difference? • Accessibility has historically been about offering a [hopefully equal] alternative • UDL is about designing the experience to eliminate any barriers so an alternative is not needed
- 12. Accessibility Vs. UDL: Shared Goal • Design content in a way that users can access it easily, in the way they need to
- 13. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) • “A framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people.” –CAST • Eliminates barriers from beginning • Recognizes various learning styles • Offers options for students that fit their learning styles and preferences, including using assistive technologies (CAST UDL Framework)
- 14. Accessibility & UDL Best Practices & Tips! Poll question!
- 15. Accessibility & UDL Best Practices, cont. Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 • Alt-text for images • Descriptive, underlined links • Heading styles • High color contrast • Captions and Transcripts • Clear, concise, language • Avoid or explain jargon • Spell out acronyms • Avoid abbreviations • Compatibility with assistive technologies UDL Guidelines (CAST) Engagement* • Involve learners in goal setting Representation* • Offer alternatives for audio/visual: captions & transcripts • Promote understanding across languages: avoid jargon, acronyms, & abbreviations Action & Expression* • Optimize access to assistive technologies: Keyboard use, Headers, etc. *not a complete list; for a full list, see (WCAG 2.0 Checklist by WebAim) or (CAST UDL Framework) Group Discussion & Poll question!
- 16. Alternative Text (Alt-Text) • Written description of an image • Read by screen readers in place of images • Displayed if an image file doesn’t load properly • Displayed when the user has chosen not to view images
- 17. Descriptive Hyperlink Text • Tell the user where the link is going to take them • Avoid pasting the full URL • Avoid using click here as a link • Let the link be the title of the content itself
- 18. Descriptive Hyperlink Text • Formatting tool • Used to separate sections of a document • Help all users and screen readers navigate content • Apply in outline format
- 19. Captions • Benefit people with hearing impairments or without access to audio. • English as a second language • Noisy, or quiet environments • Generate automatic captions for videos using TechSmith • Live captions in Powerpoint 365!
- 20. Transcripts • Benefit people with vision impairments without access to video • Separate written document of the audio • Do not have to be verbatim accounts of the spoken word in a video • Can be written before hand • Searchable
- 21. Print Best Practices • Use non-serif fonts (e.g. Helvetica, Veranda, Arial). • Contrast font color with background color (e.g. black text, white background). • Use 1.5–2.0 line spacing. • Optimize white space. • Do not place text over images. • Posters • Font Size: Title: 72 point, Section Title: 46–56 point, Block Text: 24–36 point • Ensure adequate resolution of graphics (visible from 6 feet when printed). • Provide online copy. (solopress.com, asha.org, Gilson & Kitchin, 2007)
- 22. Word Accessibility Checker • Check your Word documents for accessibility using the built-in Word accessibility checker.
- 23. Adobe Pro Accessibility Checker • Check your PDFs for accessibility using the built-in Adobe Acrobat Pro Accessibility Checker.
- 24. Tips • Think about accessibility from the start –it’s much easier than trying to go back and make something accessible later on • Use the accessibility checkers in Word & Adobe Pro • Create templates for yourself • When recording video, speak loud & clear which will help with generating captions • Write transcript before a webinar, video, etc. • Others? Group Discussion
- 26. Content Accessibility & Instruction Online Guide • Accessibility Best Practices & Resources • Instructions & Tutorials for creating accessible documents • Accessibility Checkers, including color contrast MT Talking Book Library • Residents unable to use standard print materials due to visual, physical, and/or reading disabilities can request • Braille or high quality audio books and magazines recorded by trained narrators Funkify • Disability simulator for the web Closing Poll question!
- 27. UDL Slides Check Minimum 24 sans serif font Use of bullets/numbers for lists Correct reading order Sufficient color contrast Plain language Alt-text for images Descriptive links
- 28. Final Poll Review & Questions?