Accessibility Best Practices in Education

This video tutorial focuses on low effort, high impact tips for creating accessible content for all learners. It covers the importance of accessibility, digital and web accessibility, and provides practical tips on making text, links, and images accessible. The tutorial also emphasizes the use of closed captions in videos and offers a practical exercise to apply these tips. The goal is to ensure all learners, regardless of their needs, can access and benefit from the content.

What is the primary goal of accessibility in education?

• To make courses more entertaining

• To make learning materials more colorful

• To reduce the amount of content in courses

• To ensure all students have equal access to learning services and information

Which of the following is NOT a recommended practice for making text accessible?

• Ensuring normal paragraph text is at least 12 point

• Using high contrast colors

• Using a variety of unique fonts

• Using paragraph styles and headers

Why should you avoid using a full URL in online documents?

• It takes up too much space

• It can be overwhelming for screen readers to read

• It looks unprofessional

• It is difficult to copy and paste

Which of the following is a low effort, high impact tip for making text accessible?

• Adding decorative images

• Using bright colors

• Using paragraph styles and headers

• Using multiple fonts

What is a good practice when using links in documents?

• Using full URLs

• Using descriptive and unique link text

• Avoiding links altogether

• Using the same link text for all links

What is the purpose of adding alternative text to images?

• To make the document look more professional

• To provide a description for screen readers

• To add more content to the document

• To improve the image quality

What is chunking in the context of accessibility?

• Using bright colors to highlight text

• Breaking down information into smaller, manageable parts

• Using multiple fonts in a document

• Adding decorative images

What is the main benefit of using closed captions in videos?

• To make videos more entertaining

• To provide a textual representation of the audio for deaf and hard of hearing individuals

• To reduce the file size of the video

• To add more content to the video

Why is it important to review closed captions after they are auto-generated?

• To add more content

• To ensure they are entertaining

• To check for accuracy and correct any errors

• To reduce the file size

What should you do if you find the concept of accessibility overwhelming?

• Ignore it completely

• Try to implement all changes at once

• Ask students to figure it out themselves

• Focus on one aspect at a time and gradually make improvements