Web Accessibility

Key Principles

There are 4 key principles to accessibility:

• Perceivable: Content must be presented in ways everyone can perceive. 
• Operable: The interface must be easy to navigate and use.
• Understandable: Information must be clear and easy to understand.
• Robust: Content must work with various technologies.

Examples of ways to meet the POUR standards include:

• Using a clear heading structure
• Creating descriptive hyperlinks
• Formatting tables for screen-readers
• Tagging images with alternative text
• Accurately captioning videos
• Considering color contrast
• Using clear language; chunk text

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Training

Free, self-paced "micro courses" are available through our partnership with the CCC Accessibility Center and CVC@ONE to help employees get familiar with accessibility basics:

• CCCAC Accessibility with Plain and Inclusive Language
• CCCAC Alternative Text for Images
• CCCAC Creating Accessible Captions
• CCCAC Creating Accessible Emails: A Case Study
• CCCAC Accessible Stylings: Color Use, Color Contrast, & Fonts
• CCCAC Building Accessible Structure
• CCCAC Creating Accessible Links
• CCCAC Tables and Accessibility

There are both tools and trainings available to help instructors meet web accessibility standards on Canvas:

Tools

• Learn how to scan your course to identify accessibility errors using the Pope Tech Dashboard.
• After scanning your course to identify errors, use the Pope Tech Accessibility Guide to remediate errors.
• New Tool! ComplyBot can help streamline the remediation of accessibility errors and help faculty align instructional content to Universal Design for Learning standards.

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Trainings

• Complete the self-paced Web Accessibility Course on Canvas.
• Faculty teaching online learn about accessibility in LPC's contractually required online teaching training - including our Online Course Development Program (OCDP) and Peer Online Course Review (POCR).
• Complete the CCC Accessibility Center's training: Accommodation Guidance.
• Book an appointment for one-on-one support with LPC's Instructional Technology Specialist, Wanda Butterly.

Tools

For quick guides on how to use built-in accessibility tools in common office products, please review:

• Microsoft Tutorials (Outlook email, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Adobe Tutorials (PDFs)
  • Limited site licenses to Equidox - a tool to help remediate PDFs - are available through the CCC Accessibility Center.
• New Tool! ComplyBot is available to help streamline the remediation of accessibility errors in documents.

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Training

Free webinars and self-paced courses are available through the CCC Accessibility Center to help you learn how to design with accessibility in mind:

• Sign up for free self-paced courses, like the WebAIM Accessible Documents Training or a series of 20-minute "micro-trainings" on PDFs:
  • CCCAC PDF Optical Character Recognition
  • CCCAC PDF Accessible Tables
  • CCCAC Common PDF Grouping Tags
  • CCCAC Less Common PDF Grouping Tags
• Register for upcoming webinars (or view recordings of past sessions).

The National Center on Disability and Access to Education has helpful "Cheatsheets" on creating accessible content in Microsoft and Adobe.

Sign up for "micro-courses," available for free through our partnership with the CCC Accessibility Center and CVC@ONE:

• CCCAC Accessible Text for Social Media
• CCCAC Accessible Images for Social Media

When recording videos, please be sure to publish accurate captions and audio descriptions.

• Canvas Studio Tutorials
  1. How to add auto-generated captions in Studio
  2. How to edit captions in Studio
• Clipchamp Captioning Tutorials
• YouTube Captioning Tutorials
• 3C Media Captioning (grant-funded support for faculty captioning videos)

If you are a web contributor who regularly updates web page content in your area, please connect with Tim Druley, LPC's Web Master, for training. 

Tools are available to help you check the accessibility of web content:

• Modern Campus Accessibility Check
• Pope Tech Web Scanner (available through CCC Accessibility Center)
• WAVE Browser Extensions