by Christine Monnier | Apr 17, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Guest Blogger
Accessibility matters. For some years, now, we have been using Ally to check the accessibility of our course content and provide alternative formats. We have now switched to YuJa Panorama, a tool that fulfills the same purpose. But from what I can tell, has expanded...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 13, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
One of the nice things about YuJa is that it generates automatic captions for your videos but no caption-generation system is perfect (especially if you have an accent). Therefore, you should always double-check that your captions are accurate because, frankly, it...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 17, 2023 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
Even if you don’t have students in your courses who require specific accommodations, ensuring that your course content is accessible is an important part of effectively serving all our students here at College of DuPage. Blackboard has some built in tools that...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 27, 2022 | Accessibility, Featured, Video, YuJa
All video content you share in your courses needs to be captioned to ensure it complies with ADA guidelines. This helps to ensure that all students are able to access the content in a course. It also helps any students who just prefer to watch videos with captions–...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 20, 2022 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard, Featured
Wondering what’s new in Bb this fall? Here’s a list of all the updates to Blackboard for September 2022! Let us know if you have any questions or notice anything that’s not working as expected! For Instructors Here are the instructor-specific updates to...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 19, 2020 | Accessibility, Featured
Over the past few years, Microsoft has become a leader in designing for greater accessibility, retooling everything from Word to their xBox controllers for better, more universal design. Among these changes, Office products (regular and 365 alike) now have numerous...
