Faculty Resources

—What can I do to make my course more accessible?

  HERE ARE 5 THINGS TO DO RIGHT AWAY

1. Make all your documents and online content screen reader-friendly with built-in styles and formatting for headings, lists, columns (instead of tables), paragraph styles, etc.
   • Microsoft Word w/Accessibility Checker, PowerPoint, and Excel
   • Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets
   • Moodle/web-based apps TEXT/HTML editor in Moodle/web-based apps
2. Include image descriptions
   • Write helpful ALT text to describe images
   • Applying ALT text to Images in Moodle
   • Make your Google document, presentation, sheets, and videos more accessible
   • Add alternative text to a Microsoft shape, picture, chart, SmartArt graphic, or other object
3. Write descriptive links, not navigational, e.g. Clackamas Community College Website, NOT click here.
   • Creating accessible HyperText links
4. Include only media that has closed captioning or a transcript available
   • Evaluating course materials
   • Using closed captioning in Zoom during all live, real-time sessions
   • Request machine captioning only for French, German, Russian, Spanish, or Vietnamese videos; otherwise, Kaltura (My Media) videos are automatically machine-captioned 
   • Request human captioning only when a DRC accommodation requires 100% accuracy
5. Review your course with the YuJa Panorama Accessibility Report