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8 Visual Design Mistakes to Avoid When Developing eLearning

Tim Slade

And while instructional design is a vital component to the effectiveness of an eLearning course, other elements can either help elevate your course content or detract from it. 1: Distorted Images. An image gets distorted when the image is resized in such a way that it affects the aspect ratio of the image (i.e.,

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How to Use DALLE-3 for Best Image Generation Results

Instancy

Introduction: In this huge new ChatGPT update, users can now create images directly within ChatGPT with the help of DALL-E 3, eliminating the need for complicated image generation prompts or dealing with Discord like in mid-Journey.

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Make your training website more accessible: 10 essential tips

Arlo Training & Events Software

Approximately 16% of the world’s population has a disability (one in six of us), so when a website is not accessible, it effectively excludes a large portion of the population from using it. The image below from Ahrefs highlights the point perfectly: 2. Tools like the WebAIM Color Contrast Checker can help verify these ratios.

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Top Five Tips to Create Accessible Content

CourseArc

Alt text, also known as alt description or alt attribute, is a textual description for non-text elements on the screen, such as images, graphics, photographs and drawings. If there is no alt text, the screen reader will simply say “IMAGE” with no frame of reference. Avoid the use of the term “image of” or “picture of”.

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5 tips for more accessible presentations

BrightCarbon

So, ensuring your slides are more accessible will improve the effectiveness of your presentation for everyone. If you don’t include any alt text all users will hear is the word “image”. A contrast mistake we see all the time is text on top of images. There are solutions to this, and you don’t have to lose your image!

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5 IconLogic Mini-Courses That Need to Be on Your Radar

eLearning Brothers

Because there are so many different devices on the market with no set-in-stone standard aspect ratio for all these screens, some fancy programming has to come into effect. As such, Camtasia is an excellent tool for creating good eLearning using PowerPoint presentations, images, video, audio, and even quizzes.

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Free color contrast checker for PowerPoint

BrightCarbon

Plus, the knock-on effect of designing with disabled people in mind is that accessible design benefits everyone. Increasing the contrast between the text and the background could give you something like this: According to WCAG, for text, a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 Accessibility and PowerPoint presentations.