About

sbj
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Community Participant
Title:
Instructional Designer
Joined:
Jun 25, 2015 11:02:10 AM
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27
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Bio:
I am an accessible learning designer at the University of Maryland College Park campus. I've been at UMD for 16 years, and before coming to higher ed I worked as a middle school special education teacher, and before that I worked in the publishing field.

Most Liked Posts

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 will no...
Likes: 28
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 feature ...
Likes: 12
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 ...."
Likes: 8
Please caption your videos!!!
Likes: 6
@dlyons, to the accessibility question, I get why you all are calling these "buttons and icons" because they "look" like a button. But buttons have a specific meaning in web design and therefore in ac...
Likes: 5

Most Recent Posts

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" and I don'...
Aug 5, 2024 5:08:43 AM
Please caption your videos!!!
Mar 6, 2024 6:41:48 AM
We are trying to test out the steps for extending time and adding attempts for students using the Moderate function, but it stopped working earlier this week in beta. Following these directions: https...
Jun 16, 2023 1:31:52 PM
@eschiebel this is not true:"Since you don't have an opportunity to specify an alt text when pasting or dropping, Canvas will set it to the file name which is an accessibility issue. You will see 1 ad...
Dec 7, 2022 6:42:55 AM
@kaelkanzo, Giving your question a bump here as that's something we'd love, too:  Is there any plan to make it simpler for users to add padding and to align images with text on the page?  For example,...
Mar 30, 2022 5:58:43 AM

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