Online Course Accessibility Review for UNV-1001-42: Fall 2016
Faculty: Arthur Dent
Reviewed October 5, 2016, by Marvin
Table of Contents
Accessibility of Course Design
Clear, consistent navigation
Accessibility Statement
Accessibility Info for Technologies Used
Course Element: (Name)
Meaningful File Name
Colors
Headings
Images
Language
Links
Lists
Tables and Columns
Video and Audio
Other
Comments
Note: Review Process Tutorials are at Accessibility for Online Course Content.
Accessibility of Course Design
Clear, consistent navigation
Easy to tell how to get started with the course.
Content organized in a way that is simple, logical, and consistent.
Accessibility Statement
The course has clear directions for how to request accommodations for a disability. Example:
“If you need an accommodation for a disability and are registered with the Office of Disability Services, please privately contact this course’s faculty as soon as possible to discuss your needs.”
This statement may be included in a syllabus, or someplace like a separate course policies document.
Accessibility Info for Technologies Used
The course includes links to information assistive technology users need in order to use any technologies in the course in addition to Pilot.
Course Element: (Name)
Name and location in course. Type of file or link (HTML, Word, PDF, URL…)
Name of site and URL if it’s an external link. Please remove any items below that do not apply.
Meaningful File Name
Among a folder full of downloaded files, you should be able to distinguish the file from all the others.
Colors
Ways in which student might not make sense of the page if they couldn’t see the colors.
Text that does not have adequate contrast between text color and background.
Headings
Headingsnot tagged as headings, just text made big and bold.
Headings not used in a proper hierarchy.
Images
Images that have missing or inadequate alternative text.
Language
While not an issue in many documents, if there are non-English passages in a document, it is important to specify the document’s language and that of the passages.
Links
Links that do not have meaningful text, such as those that are just URLs or that say “click here.”
Lists
Important lists that are not tagged or styled as lists.
Tables and Columns
Data that needs to be in a table, but is not.
Need associations between heading and data cells.
Video and Audio
Video that needs captions.
Video that needs audio description.
Audio that needs transcripts.
Other
Note here anything you see that may need attention but is not covered above. This may include things like text boxes in Word or the use of picture fonts.