{"id":8895,"date":"2016-01-02T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=8895"},"modified":"2022-12-11T09:25:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T15:25:59","slug":"make-course-content-accessible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/make-course-content-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Course Content Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons hybrid and online courses appeal to students is when a course is well designed the student has the opportunity to playback or review a concept until they have mastered it. <\/p>\n<p>In order for course materials to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/accessibility.php\">accessible<\/a> for all learners the course material should be provided in multiple formats. Having the material in multiple modes allows the student to choose the mode that works best for them. <\/p>\n<p>If your course material is visual provide an audio version as well. If your course material is auditory, make it visual too. Incorporating transcripts, subtitles, closed captioning to audio and visual content in a course is invaluable for students with disabilities, diverse and\/or preferred learning styles, and English as a second language (ESL) students. <\/p>\n<p>Designing your courses with accessibility in mind will save you some time in the event you do have a student with a disability. Remember accessible content is not only for the impaired. Students without disabilities will find having accessible resources within your course a bonus. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few simple steps, from my previous blog posts, that you can take when creating content and setting up your course that will make it more accessible:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-headings\/\">Headings<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-text-formatting\/\">Text Formatting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-descriptive-links\/\">Descriptive Links<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-alt-text\/\">Alt Text<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/when-alt-text-is-not-enough\/\">Describing Complex Images, Charts, and Graphs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-lists\/\">Lists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/bb-accessibility-tip-tables\/\">Tables<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As we start a new year and a new semester it is a good time to start to make your courses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/intro\/accessibility.php\">accessible<\/a>. Here is a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/2015\/12\/17\/10-steps-for-making-your-online-courses-accessible-for-all-students\/2\/\">10-Step Guide to Making Your Course Accessible for All Students<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Janice Florent One of the reasons hybrid and online courses appeal to students is when a course is well designed the student has the opportunity to playback or review a concept until they have mastered it. In order for course materials to be accessible for all learners the course material should be provided in <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/make-course-content-accessible\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Make Course Content Accessible\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-8895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-accessibility-kneads","7":"category-online","8":"tag-accessibility","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2jt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14894,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/icymi-does-your-syllabus-need-a-makeover\/","url_meta":{"origin":8895,"position":0},"title":"ICYMI: Does Your Syllabus Need a Makeover?","author":"Janice Florent","date":"January 1, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"In an Inside Higher Ed blog post, Travis Grandy, PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, writes, Do you ever feel like you want to get more out of your syllabus? 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