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Section 508 and WCAG: Why Should a Learning Designer Care

CommLab India

Providing a text alternative that describes media such as images or animations is important to help visually impaired learners understand what’s happening onscreen. Text and images have a minimum ratio of 4.5:1. Let us now have a look at some of the major points you need to focus on while developing an accessible eLearning course.

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2024 Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

What people ideally would do is to start from an indicated problem, and identify the root cause. We can see when augmenting our existing world makes sense, versus using the existing world to supplement virtual goals, and then creating a fully immersive alternate world. What it enables is to start looking for alternatives to learning.

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

Upside Learning

What people ideally would do is to start from an indicated problem, and identify the root cause. We can see when augmenting our existing world makes sense, versus using the existing world to supplement virtual goals, and then creating a fully immersive alternate world. What it enables is to start looking for alternatives to learning.

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Should We List the Learning Objectives?

Experiencing eLearning

The argument in favor of listing learning objectives I don’t want to directly pile on this person any further (I already ratioed him with my comment on his article), but someone recently shared some elearning tips on LinkedIn. Some of this research looked at alternatives to focusing objectives. No, I think we can do better.

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Make your training website more accessible: 10 essential tips

Arlo Training & Events Software

Provide clear ALT text for all images you use You should provide descriptive alternative text for images to help users with visual impairments understand the content of the image. Some ways you can do this include: Adopt high contrast ratios – ensure that text and background colors have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1

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The Dos and Don’ts of Selecting the Most Suitable Training Delivery Partner

Infopro Learning

One of the major reasons for bringing a training partner into the picture is to have an expert who can assist and provide solutions to the training problems you can’t handle alone. Alternatively, you may ask for referrals of their previous clients to get first-hand info. No Proven Track Record.

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Five Important Tips for Optimizing PDFs for Accessibility and Web Use in 2024!

Hurix Digital

Additionally, avoid using formatting alternatives like bold or italic text to replace headings because they don’t provide users with clear and distinct navigational cues. If alternative text isn’t used, users who have vision disabilities or use screen readers might not be able to access images in PDFs.

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