by Christina Sabo | Jun 8, 2020 | Accessibility, Featured
Emails are often an overlooked area for accessibility but because they are commonly the primary means (aside from Bb course announcements) of communication with students, it’s critical to make sure that accessibility best practices are also applied to emails. What...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 23, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
With this post, I want to show you one more awesome thing about YuJa (in addition to adding quizzes in videos, and syncing that with the Blackboard gradebook. YuJa does the captioning for you. That’s it. That’s the post. Let me show you how. First, log in...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Featured
Whether you’re sharing your own content or clips, movies, and shows made by others, videos can be a great way to engage students and make a topic feel more easily understandable and accessible. But videos come with some drawbacks, too, namely that they require...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 3, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Obligatory disclaimer: I am not a designer. This is not my field. I’m just a community college prof trying to use best practice to the best of my abilities. In this post, I want to showcase some of the tools that I use the most commonly with respect to design....
by Christina Sabo | Oct 22, 2019 | Accessibility, Featured
While Ally is a great tool for assessing if the content items in your course are accessible, it doesn’t check everything. What about the content of webpages that you’re using in your course (or, gasp, your course page itself)? How do you assess if the contrast is...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 3, 2019 | Accessibility, Featured
It’s not uncommon for instructors to share PowerPoint slides used in class with students. This can be a great way to help students study, take better notes, or just catch up if they were out for the day. However, it’s also not uncommon for these...
