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Digital Accessibility Resources in Grainger College of Engineering
| Canvas | Coursera | Others (Grainger.Courses, etc) | |
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| Notes |
Pope Tech can check your course for accessibility errors and alerts. Please follow the resources provided by the tool for fixes and best practices. |
The guides provide checklists, tools, and structure best practices when designing a course on Coursera. Campus is working on providing more guidance for courses on Coursera. |
Currently, the UIUC campus is working on acquiring software to check accessibility of websites, but in the meantime, please use either the checklist of the automatic evaluation tool to check over your course sites. |
| Text | Images | Audio/Video | |
| Resources | |||
| Notes | Take some time to get familiar with best practices when authoring text documents. | When adding images to documents, consider adding descriptive alternative text and checking the color contrast, to make sure the content is accessible to all. | If you share out videos (like lecture recordings), make sure the captions are turned on and available to the viewers. |
| Word/PDFs | PowerPoint | Excel | |
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| Notes |
Submit your documents via the Remediation form to receive assistance and fixes to documents with accessibility issues. Where possible, opt for creating Word documents over PDFs, as they are more accessible. |
Submit your documents via the Remediation form to receive assistance and fixes to documents with accessibility issues. For GCOE-branded PowerPoint templates, visit MarCom's slide deck templates. |
Submit your documents via the Remediation form to receive assistance and fixes to documents with accessibility issues. Please review the best accessibility practices when creating Excel spreadsheets. |
| Canvas | CITL | Others | |
| Resources | Quick Start Accessibility Workshops |
More resources will be added as they become available. |
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| Notes | For hands-on workshops or office hours where you can get assistance on accessibility questions within your digital content. | The Quick Start workshops cover a wide variety of topics: Canvas, multimedia, documents, and more. | The Accessibility 101 course increases the understanding of accessibility, breaks down the main principles of accessibility, and shares resources to make digital content more accessible. |
If you have any questions about this document or any other accessibility concerns, please reach out to engrit-help-elearning@illinois.edu for support. Thank you!