accessibility tip

Oct 23, 2024

What is a Screen Reader?

Students who are blind or low-vision rely on screen readers to access your course content. Formatting and coding your documents and websites accurately clarifies this translation process into either speech or braille so the meaning of the material is easily understood.

The Hunt library at dusk, on Centennial Campus. In the foreground is the Reds and Whites art installation. Photo by Marc Hall

Sep 22, 2024

Captioning Your Lectures with Panopto

Captions are auto generated using AI for videos hosted in Panopto for your convenience. However, the transcripts should be checked for accuracy — especially if you use technical or specialized terminology in your lectures.

Aug 21, 2024

How to Make Accessible Lists in Documents and Moodle

Bulleted and numbered lists are a great way to summarize and organize important information, but when they are not formatted in an accessible way, screen reader users will miss out on the fact that your content is, in fact, a list. Manually adding numbers or letters to text is not the same thing as formatting…

Jul 24, 2024

Brickfield: Check Course Content for Accessibility on Your Moodle Site

Interested in making your course content accessible to all your students? Brickfield can help by checking your assignments that were created in Moodle and its wizards suggest solutions that are easy to implement.

Students collaborate on final projects for the spring 2023 semester in the Talley Student Union.

Jun 24, 2024

Is Online Material in Your Course Accessible?

DELTA can help you find areas of your course content that can be adapted to be more accessible by using the “Accessibility Checklist for Online Course Material.” You do not need to have accessibility expertise to use this checklist — it is designed to be user friendly!

A student walks by spring flowers, and from Talley, with a bag of food on a spring day on main campus. Photo by Marc Hall

May 28, 2024

Effective Use of Bulleted Lists

Bulleted lists are highly effective for conveying important course content. This tip offers best practices for using bulleted lists to create more concise and accessible content.points? This tip can provide best practices on creating more accessible and focused content.

Apr 25, 2024

Choosing an Accessible Font

Did you know that the most accessible typefaces are Tahoma, Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, and Times New Roman? If you prefer to use other fonts and want to ensure they are readable to all students, this tip is for you!

Mar 27, 2024

Tips to Improve Your HTML

This month's DELTA Accessibility Tip provides three easy code swaps to make your Moodle pages more accessible without changing their appearance.

Decorative: Student working on laptop in Hunt Library.

Feb 29, 2024

New Digital Accessibility Guide from DELTA

Check out DELTA’s newly published Digital Accessibility Guide to get help with making your images, text, audio, video, tables and organization/navigation more accessible. The guide also gives information on available accessibility checkers for Microsoft, Google and Moodle. Use it in combination with DELTA’s Online Course Usability and Accessibility Checklist to start making your digital materials…

Template for Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization: [Chart type] of [data description], where [insert reason for including chart / takeaway]. Source: Nightingale Journal of the Visualization Society, Amy Cesal, July 23, 2020.

Jan 29, 2024

Providing Alt Text for Graphs

Have you considered how someone with low vision might interact with a graph you present in your course? Just like other images, screenshots or pictures of graphs need to have alt text that describes the chart and provides “at a glance” information about its key message. An example of good alt text for a graph…