1.
Accessible Content is Better
for Everyone

2.
Katarina Hjärtmyr
Learning Technology Consultant
Örebro University
katarina.hjartmyr@oru.se
Katarina Hjärtmyr

3.
Andy Jacobson
Senior Director of Operations
Blackboard User Experience
andy.jacobson@blackboard.com
@uxmoose
Andy Jacobson

4.
What are some of the biggest challenges with accessibility?
Here is what educators and students had to say!
What Matters Most?

5.
0 25 50
Lack of Knowledge
Lack of Time
Challenges with the LMS
Lack of Awareness
% of Respondents
Barriers to Accessibility

6.
0 25 50
Assistive Technology
Captioning Videos
Using Flash
Accessibility of LMS
Keyboard Navigation
Accessible Powerpoint
Learner Challenges
% of Respondents
Biggest Knowledge Gaps

7.
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Captioning
Time on Tests
Alternative Content
Completing Work
Differentiated Materials
Posting to Discussions
Reading Attachments
% of Respondents
Biggest Challenges Facing Students

8.
Defining Disability
Disability: permanent physical, mental or intellectual limitation of
a person’s functional capacity that as a consequence of injury or
illness existed at birth, has arisen since then or can be expected
to arise.
Swedish Code of Statutes, Discrimination Act, SFS 2008:567

9.
Students with some kind of disability in higher education
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Deaf/sign language speaking students 153 141 136 134 141 144
Hard of hearing 203 218 203 193 208 196
Dyslexia 3634 4370 4417 4939 5457 5945
Learning difficulties 955 1427 1694 1943 2588 3070
Mobility impairment 492 606 567 584 555 648
Visual impairment 203 235 288 294 286 280
Other conditions 330 335 486 529 642 780
Total 5970 7332 7791 8616 9877 11063

10.
Accessibility on the web
Web Accessibility Initiative – WAI
A web for everyone
“Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can
perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and
that they can contribute to the Web.“
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php

11.
Assistive Technologies

12.
What to use?
 Spell check
 Alternative keyboards and mouses
 Use voice or eyes to control your computer

13.
Screen magnifier
Ctrl +
Ctrl -

14.
Screen reader or Text-to-speech
 JAWS
 Window-Eyes
 NVDA
 Many more…
This is NVDA logging in to Blackboard

15.
Structured Content

16.
How to structure a course

17.
Word document

18.
Check accessibility in Word

19.
Content editor

20.
Pdf

21.
PowerPoint
Publish in different ways.

22.
Color, Audio, and Video

23.
Contrast
White or
yellow on dark
Red and blue Red and green
Dark on light
Blue and brown

24.
Images

25.
Recordings and sound
 10-15 minutes
 Texted videos
 Transcription

26.
 Deaf or hearing impaired
 Neurological processing
 Non-native speakers
 Noisy environment
 Literacy and learning to read
All about captioning

27.
Finding captioned content

28.
 Storyboard
 Create your video
 Upload to YouTube
 Wait 2-6 hours
 Log back in and select Video
Manager
 Click Edit and select Captions
 Click Automatic Captions
How to caption in YouTube

29.
Universal Design

30.
Universal Design
Accessible
LMS
Accessible
Content
Success
for all
students

31.
Accessible Content Checklist
 Images have ALT text and/or descriptions
 Documents are properly structured
 PDFs are tagged
 Instructions are clear and succinct
 Color choices have proper contrast
 Videos are captioned