VIII.3 The course is compliant with current accessibility standards.
◉ REQUIRED STANDARD
Expectations
Current accessibility standards are wide ranging and impact various areas of the course; ergo, to satisfy this standard, the course must:
Provide for text alternatives of images and other non-text content, including user interface components
Provide that prerecorded audio is available in a visible format and that silent animations are available in an audible format
Provide for synchronized captioning of prerecorded video and multimedia
Provide for audio description of prerecorded video and multimedia
Provide for captioning of live video and multimedia
Provide that information and prompts are not conveyed only through color
Provide for specified contrast between foreground and background of text and images of text (e.g. 4.5:1)
Provide for the use of text, as opposed to images of text
Provide that headings and labels are descriptive
Examples
Courses utilizing visual elements, such as charts and graphs, must provide text-based descriptions of these.
Courses utilizing videos or animations with spoken text, music with lyrics, actions, etc. must provide synchronized captions, including text descriptions of music, actions/events, etc. Such captions must be 99% accurate or better. The same is true of live video (e.g. lectures, presentations, etc.).
In general, colors should be avoided as visual cues (e.g. "Click on the red arrow to continue.").
Content should have sufficient contrast between the foreground and background (e.g. avoid red text on a white background, etc.).
Documents should present accessible text; namely, no scans of chapters in PDF format that have not been processed via optical character recognition.
Tables should have headings or labels that sufficiently describe the contents in rows or columns, and use the appropriate markup to indicate this (e.g. TH element in HTML; in Word, creating header rows/columns, etc.).
Images should have alternate descriptions (via the ALT attribute in HTML, or populating the appropriate field in D2L when inserting images).
MathML should be used for all equations and formulae.
Course content should be organized by module/week/topic, not by type, as this is easier for students to navigate when using assistive technology.
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