Moodle Content

  • Heading styles are used if the information is long and has subtitles.
  • Provide descriptive text for the links.
  • Good contrast between text and background.
  • Don’t use color as the only way to convey information. All information should be meaningful if color is removed.
  • Include descriptive ALT text for all images and charts.
  • Run the built in accessibility checker which will indicate areas of your page that may have conflicts with screen readers. To run the accessibility checker, click the “eye” icon found on the text editor menu.
  • All videos or audios have closed captions or a written transcript.

Word Documents

  • Heading styles are used and Navigation pane reveals the heading levels correctly.
  • Avoid text boxes, as screen readers will skip over them.
  • Avoid blank spaces created by hitting Enter, Tab or space bar multiple times; instead use the spacing feature in the Paragraph formatting menu to create blank spaces
  • Provide descriptive text for the links.
  • Provide Alt Text for images and objects.
  • Don’t use color as the only way to convey information.
  • Tables have descriptive ALT text.
  • Tables have header row identified in Table Properties.

PowerPoint Files

  • Outline View reveals all the content that a screen reader will read (e.g., items in the notes area are not read).
  • Ensure that all slides have unique titles.
  • Use slides as their layout intends them to be used—text in spaces for text, images in spaces for images.
  • Avoid transitions and animations on slides.
  • All videos or audios have closed captions or a written transcript.
  • Graphs and Charts include descriptive ALT text.
  • Tables have descriptive ALT text.
  • Have header row identified in Table Properties.
  • PDF Files
  • Avoid scanned PDFs, as they are images; look online for an original PDF file to use.
  • If PDF files are converted from Word documents or PowerPoint files, make them ADA compliant before converting.
  • Generally, if you can highlight the text on the PDF, it will be able to be read by a screen reader.

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Adding Alternate Text to Images