A picture may be worth a thousand words, but often those words are still needed. When composing an email that includes an image, it is important to include alt text, which will ensure that your message is available to as many of your recipients as […]
Grackle can scan your Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides and improve the accessibility and usability of them, reducing the chance that you’ll have to edit them in response to an accommodation request. You can also export your project to use it outside of Google. Read more to see how you can optimize your Google Sheets, then export them for use in Canvas.
Want to incorporate QR codes into your students’ projects? Or need to create a QR code for your own poster or infographic?Here are easy ways to create and view QR codes, as well as a few accessibility and security best practices. Why use a QR […]
The Block Editor (AKA “Gutenberg Blocks”) is a library of pre-built containers which enable web authors to create complex content without having to know how to write any code. One simply inserts their content (text, images, links, etc.), tweaks some settings and their content is automatically wrapped in the well-formatted code, gaining extra context which makes it more easily and widely usable. Take a look at the basic controls and get ready to start building complex pages and posts with ease!
Do you find yourself distracted by modern webpages’ complex layout? Microsoft’s new Immersive Reader tool may help you. It strips off most of the unnecessary items from your screen. Multiple columns – gone. Video – gone. Fancy background – gone. Try Microsoft’s Immersive Reader option, in […]
WFU’s Kaltura has the ability to auto-caption videos if the language spoken in the video is one of the following: Arabic, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Russian or Spanish. Captions are done in English by default. (So if you upload a video in which […]
Our friends in Information Systems who work with Technology Accessibility are now offering sessions on working with the captioning tools in Kaltura.
One advantage to uploading your videos to Kaltura instead of Google Drive is that Closed Captioning (CC) text is automatically created and applied. For the most part, Kaltura does a good job of recognizing your pronunciation and transcribing the words correctly. However, the transcription is […]
We all know that adding Closed Captioning (CC) to your Kaltura video media greatly improves accessibility for your audience. Then, adding a second Closed Captioning choice in another language would make accessibility even better, right? Following the SRT formatting (see the Alternate Approach at
