by Christine Monnier | Sep 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...
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 | 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...
