Embedded Files
Content published to Moodle for student viewing must be uploaded in compliance with the American Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines. It is of the utmost importance that developers ensure that students with disabilities have equal access to materials built into IU online courses as well as properly formatted for use with assistive devices.
The course must provide equal educational opportunities to all students, provide students with a sense of independence with the material, and lend opportunity for these students to engage in the course related activities. Faculty are asked to review the Making your videos ADA Compliant with closed captioning for definitions and best practices when building their course.
When adding or editing any activity on Moodle (assignment, assessment, journal, forum, etc.), faculty should make it a practice to ensure the content is ADA compliant using the Moodle Accessibility Checker instructions on the bottom of this page.
ADA Compliance do's and don'ts
ADA Compliance do's and don'ts
Keep media that must be downloaded by students to a minimum
Check your course from the students’ perspective
LINKS
Text descriptions are used for links
There are not instances of the same text pointing to different links (i.e., Multiple instances of “click here” pointing to different URLs)
TEXT
Dark font colors are used on light background colors
Avoids extremely bright colors as background colors
Uses one font throughout the site
Avoids overuse of all CAPS, bold, or italics
Avoids underlining words, as the screen reader can mistake it for a navigation links
IMAGES
Avoids animated or blinking images (except in the case of an instructional simulation), blinking text, or blinking cursors
All images have alt text/long descriptions attached to them
Audio player required is compatible with multiple operating systems and requires only a standard plug in
A written transcript is provided with all audio files
Audio quality is clear
VIDEO
Videos should be 3-10 minutes in length and allow students to pause or break while viewing.
Video quality is clear
Video player required is compatible with multiple operating systems and requires only a standard, free plugin
Must provide closed-captioning or has accompanying text-based scripts for all videos (see links below)
PDFs
PDFs are searchable and not images that were saved as pdfs
Faculty should review these helpful links for making any videos published to their courses Closed Caption possible:
Moodle Accessibility Checker instructions
Moodle Accessibility Checker instructions
This tool is used to check the content and identifies possible accessibility issues. Tracks missing description on images, tracks contrast, poorly formed tables, and lack of headings in blocks of text.
To utilize this tool:
Click on Add an activity or resource within your course.
Click on the activity you wish to add.
Name the activity and add the description of your instructions.
In the Description section of the screen, click on the down arrow which will open additional applications.
Locate and click on the accessibility checker where Moodle will review the content and advise of necessary changes to be in compliance.
Once all have been updated properly, repeat step 4 & 5 above. If everything is in proper order, you will be alerted "Congratulations, no accessibility problems found!"
checklist for ada compliance in your course
checklist for ada compliance in your course
adacompliance_checklist.pdfPage updated
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