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Accessibility

Quick tips

Creating accessible content summary

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           Tip

 

 

  1. Ensure sufficient contrast between background and text
  2. Avoid colours which cause difficulties for colour-blind users.
  3. Avoid busy backgrounds
  4. Do not rely on colours to relay meaning

Fonts

 

 

  1. Use a sans serif font
  2. Use11Arial in a Word document
  3. Avoid using coloured fonts
  4. Avoid high text densities
  5. Avoid background images

HTML



 

  1. Use only accessible HTML tags
  2. Set links to websites to open within the Blackboard content frame rather than to open in a new window
  3. Do not use <font> tags
  4. Don't use HTML code to set font size
  5. Avoid using colour to express a meaning

Images, graphs and charts

  1. Images must have an alternative text equivalent

Multimedia

 

  1. Provide equivalent alternatives such as transcripts, text descriptions, closed captions and audio narrations
  2. Ensure keyboard-accessible controls are available
  1. Ask yourself why you are using PDF
  2. Follow strictly the process to make accessible PDFs
  1. Ask yourself why you are using PowerPoint
  2. Save slides as a simple text format

Quizzes

 

 

  1. Avoid one question per page
  2. Set the quiz to open within the Blackboard browser
  3. Make sure the quiz is given a useful name
  4. Images should be given a useful name and alternate text description
  1. Create tables that can be read by screen readers

Word, rtf and text files

 

  1. Create documents that have a defined structure
  2. Embedded images must have an alternative text equivalent
  3. Ensure the content is clear