Making your digital materials accessible can help anyone with a documented disability, but it will also help everyone: people developing their English language skills, people using older technologies to access the internet, people in very loud or very quiet environments where speech is difficult or impossible to understand, for example.
Why Accessibility?
Video example of what using a screen reader is like
Guides to Accessibility in Canvas
Canvas supports a number of screen-readers, and can be operated through keyboard shortcuts. Canvas conforms with the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WAI WCAG) 2.0 AA and Section 508 guidelines.
More information can be found at this Guide to Accessibility within Canvas.
ALT-Tag Decision Tree - This decision tree describes how to use the
altattribute of the<img>element in various situations. For some types of images, there are alternative approaches, such as using CSS background images for decorative images or web fonts instead of images of text.
Making Documents Accessible
Professional Development Courses
Accessibility Guides for Technology Commonly Used at NCSSM
Accessibility Guides for Technology Commonly Used at NCSSM
Closed Captioning
If you have a need for professional closed-captioned for videos or transcripts to videos, please contact NCSSM's Teaching, Learning, & Curriculum Support Team (TLC).