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This module section highlights the UCF Techrangers® team and their support for online courses at UCF. The Techrangers® is a team of students at the Center for Distributed Learning, who provide course development for faculty and web/application development for the University of Central Florida (UCF). It is a good idea to know the team, their purpose, and when you can contact them for assistance.
This sections covers the categories of accessibility we consider and make accessible when placing materials in an online course:
Visibility issues can include blindness, color blindness, and low vision. Students who are blind can use a screen reader, such as JAWS, to navigate and read content from a site. We’ve run our syllabus template through JAWS and recorded it so you can get an idea of what a student who is blind would experience.
Here you can see an example of good contrast and bad contrast. As you can see, the good contrast is easy to read as you can see the letters clearly against the background.
The bad contrast examples are a little harder to process. However, if you were actually color blind…
It might look like this. To make things easier on everyone, try not to use color at all in your documents. Instead, you can emphasize parts of your document by bolding or italicizing text.
Here are two examples of how you should not use color, and one example of how you can use color. Color-based emphasis will not transfer to a screen reader. The second example could present contrast issues depending on the colors. The third example, which is bolded, will work.
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Here is an example of an image with embedded text contrasted with text outside of the image. They both look clear at the standard magnification, but when enlarged the text within the image becomes unclear while normal text within a document maintains it’s clarity. If a portion of text is important, it should be accessible outside the image, for the users of both screen-readers and magnifiers.
The Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool, or UDOIT (pronounced, “You Do It”) enables faculty to identify accessibility issues in Canvas. It will scan a course, generate a report, and provide resources on how to address common accessibility issues.
Learn more: https://online.ucf.edu/teach-online/resources/udoit/
We always try to provide best practices and support to faculty teaching online. If at any time you need assistance, do not hesitate to contact our team or your instructional designer.
Have more complex ideas for pages? For complex page designs or interactive experiences, talk to your ID. They will help decide what is possible, and we will help make it happen!
Please feel free to contact your instruction al designer or the Techrangers® team team if you have questions or need assistance with your content.
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