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Why Accessibility-First Will Always Be Our Focus

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The Web Accessibility Initiative, part of the World Wide Web Consortium, establishes a set of international standards called the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to make web content more accessible to users with disabilities. It can be confusing to the person trying to understand the actual content. .

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Captioning

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Captions allow the content of web audio and video to be accessible to those who do not have access to audio. Common web accessibility guidelines indicate that captions should be: Synchronized – the text content should appear at approximately the same time that audio would be available. All rights reserved.

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How to Make Sure Your Online Education Materials Are Section 508 Compliant

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Here’s how he phrased it: “The Section 508 Refresh recognizes the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Satisfying these success criteria will remove significant barriers to accessing web content. For even more detail about each section of the criteria, use the Web AIM WCAG 2.0

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Why Accessibility Matters in Online Learning

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In recent years, the Department of Education, private individuals, and advocacy organizations, such as the National Federation of the Blind and the National Association of the Deaf, have filed suit against a number of public education organizations due to a failure to provide accessible web-based learning tools for students with disabilities.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

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Here is an example of poor color contrast for web content. . When in doubt, refer to the color contrast checker from Web Accessibility in Mind (or WebAim), among their other valuable resources. . Colors next to each other have low contrast – which means it will be difficult for the visually impaired to read. Visual Transcript.

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Equation Editor

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The WIRIS editor is a visual editor (WYSIWYG) that allows inserting mathematical formulas in web pages in an accessible format. We are excited to announce that we have fully integrated an equation editor into CourseArc. It runs on any browser, including the ones in tablet PCs, as is based on HTML5.

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Comparing Video Hosting, Transcribing, and Captioning Tools

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For context, the delivery of web-based eLearning content is governed by accessibility requirements that are specified in the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Integrates with most web video providers. But Wait… Is Captioning My Videos REALLY Necessary? The short answer? How is your video getting captioned? Well, not always.

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