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sbj
Sue Johnston
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Instructional Designer
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Jun 25, 2015 11:02:10 AM
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I am an Accessible Learning Designer at the University of Maryland, College Park. I've been at UMD for almost 20 years, working as an instructional technologist and instructional designer. My work has focused on accessibility in teaching in learning for the past 8 years.
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Spring 2020 has revealed a major flaw in the design of how Canvas provides extended time for students with disabilities. Following Canvas's own instructions for providing extra time on quizzes wil...
There seems to be a conflict with Ally. The column for "Accessibility" that has the Ally accessibility icon for each file is missing in the new design. Thankfully I can "Switch to Old File...
I'm disappointed that none of the issues with the Accessibility Checker that several of us have documented here and in tickets have been addressed in the bug fixes. Please don't roll out this ...
That's exactly what we're going to have to tell our faculty: "Please don't use this tool, it has bugs. Here are some better alternatives for checking accessibility ...."
That's a terrific list @mtuten has shared. Our campus uses Ally to check and remediate content in Canvas, and I'm pretty happy with that tool. We previously used UDOIT, which has undergone...
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There seems to be a conflict with Ally. The column for "Accessibility" that has the Ally accessibility icon for each file is missing in the new design. Thankfully I can "Switch to Old File...
That's a terrific list @mtuten has shared. Our campus uses Ally to check and remediate content in Canvas, and I'm pretty happy with that tool. We previously used UDOIT, which has undergone...
The article you linked to, How do I add accommodations for a student in New Q... - Instructure Community - 1092 , seems to have been recently updated. This is a change in the workflow and very bad t...
I think a better option is to add text like Important or Please Note to any text that you want to emphasize. My understanding of screen readers is that they would read an asterisk as "star" an...
Please caption your videos!!!
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