This Tech tip is to highlight resources that will assist faculty with reaching the ADA Compliance deadline of Accessibility Compliance in their courses. All Minnesota State employee electronic documents and course materials must adhere to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standards by April 24, 2027. These guidelines...
This tech tip features an article from Minnesota State Academic and Student Affairs on creating accessible table in D2L Brightspace. To view this article, please click on the following link: Creating Accessible Tables in D2L Brightspace In this article, you will find the reasoning behind making tables accessible. This article...
This tech tip is how to caption your videos professionally. When a video goes through Kaltura Mediaspace, it will have machine captions. These are not always 100%. If you want to ensure more accurate captions, then we can send the video out to be captioned professionally. Please create a JIRA...
This tech tip features an article from Academic and Student Affairs at Minnesota Sate that explains how to present with real-time captions and subtitles in MS PowerPoint. To view the article, please click on the following link: Present with real-time captions or subtitles Please note the Digital Accessibility Tips section...
This tech tip focuses on a keyboard short cut on how to quickly add a hyperlink to your text without having to go through the menu on the tool bar. 1. Highlight you’re the text you want as a hyperlink: 2. Press Ctrl K 3. The Insert Hyperlink dialog box...
This tech tip will demonstrate how you can ensure your font color is accessible when working within the D2L Brightspace content editor. 1. Select your text in the D2L content editor: 2. Click the Select Color icon on the toolbar: 3. When you click a color, you will see...
This Tech tip is to draw attention to the new Creating Accessibility Materials widget on the D2L Homepages. This widget is a collection of that tech tips that are focused on creating accessible content. This widget is searchable and scrollable for ease of use The scroll bar will appear when...
This tech tip comes from Academic and Student Affairs at Minnesota State. This tip is part of Digital accessibility that focuses on how to use slide layouts instead of text boxes when creating a PowerPoint presentation. To view this tech tip, please click on the following link: Avoid inserting text...
This tech tip features videos by Microsoft that demonstrate how to improve accessibility in Email, Word Documents, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint Presentations. Please use the following video links. • Email o Video: Improve email accessibility 5:02 • Word Documents o Video: Check the accessibility 1:10 o Video: Improve accessibility with...
Oftentimes, when textbook images are scanned as PDFs, they are saved as “images” instead of “text,” which makes them inaccessible to students using screen-readers or text read aloud options. Follow the steps below to check your PDFs for accessibility and convert them as necessary. Check Your Document for Accessibility The...
