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A repository of instructional articles in draft format. Check back often for new articles and updates to existing articles.
(Version 7.2)

dominKnow | ONE's Accessibility Tab helps you control accessibility settings and provides context-sensitive best practices and tips to help you make the right accessibility decisions as you author.

The Accessibility Settings tab includes context-specific tips and advice to help you make content more accessible to all learners

During this episode of IDIODC, the gang brings on special guest Tanya Seidel to chat inclusive design and accessibility. This session will focus on some of the easier things you can do in development that have a big impact on a course's accessibility.

Presentation and supporting links

These tools help with understanding problems with color blindness and contrast and preventing these problems with your content.

Some tips and ideas for handling graphics for WCAG content

Screen Reader Options and Tips

Writing in clear concise language is key

Creating Closed Captions

Web Resources

Quality assurance with WCAG requires some additional steps in QA

Creating structured documents

WCAG 2.1 Accessibility Guidelines
This site contains the current WCAG 2.1 guidelines.

Section 508 Standards
This site contains information about Section 508. It also has links to many other resources.

As eLearning professionals, we are tasked with providing training and support to all personnel in our organization.

Often in embarking on this task we don’t fully know what the totality of this audience encompasses.

In fact, it’s very easy to focus solely on the content and how we can communicate the desired information in an engaging manner that we and our learning audience can easily digest. While the big picture rarely escapes us, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the realities that man...

Create accessible learning, it's for everyone.

How to Make Your Website Accessible to People Who Use a Screen Magnifier

Tips on how you can make your website more accessible to users of screen magnifying software.

eLearning Accessibility: Best Practices, Tips, And Tricks

What is web accessibility? Why make your learning platform accessible? How do you create accessible eLearning content? What can you do to put the most important accessibility principles into practice? Let’s answer all these questions one by one.

Designing For Accessibility And Inclusion

The more inclusive you are to the needs of your users, the more accessible your design is. Let’s take a closer look at the different lenses of accessibility through which you can refine your designs.

A great short video on gaining perspective on different people's experiences and how it ties to accessibility.

What Non-Disabled People Get Wrong About Accessibility

A great article to help you gain better perspective when designing accessible content.

Concerned your video or animation might not meet the photo sensitivity or flashing/blinking requirement of WCAG 2.3.1 A? Use this tool to test it out and confirm.

Several months ago, we blogged about why everyone should care about accessibility standards in eLearning. We made our case for tackling accessibility head-on, rather than making it an afterthought.

We wanted to follow up by exploring the ways we put this philosophy into practice with dominKnow | ONE. We've worked hard to include features in our authoring tools that empower users to do more than meet minimum legal standards.

Our goal is to help you optimize the eLearning experience of your...

Creating Better Learning For All
You could do a better job with authoring accessible eLearning.

It's not really your fault.

The truth is, we can all do a better job.

We should strive not just to do the bare minimum, but to optimize the experience of all learners.

How do you do that, and why should you bother?

File Format Types

Here is the wikipedia article about closed captioning. In case, you're wondering exactly what it is and how it came about.

As eLearning professionals, we are tasked with providing training and support to all personnel in our organization.

Often in embarking on this task we don’t fully know what the totality of this audience encompasses.

In fact, it’s very easy to focus solely on the content and how we can communicate the desired information in an engaging manner that we and our learning audience can easily digest. While the big picture rarely escapes us, it’s easy to lose sight of some of the realities that man...

How do people who cannot move their arms use your website? What about people who cannot see well or at all? Or people who have difficulty hearing or understanding, or have other disabilities?

This resource introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web. It describes tools and approaches that people with different kinds of disabilities use to browse the Web and the barriers they encounter due to poor design. It helps developers, designers, ...

Some of the key accessibility standards you should be aware of as you start your accessibility journey.

.Gov site with great resources regarding color and accessibility

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative
This site contains guidelines, techniques, discussions and information on making web content accessible, as well as managing and evaluating accessibility.

A round up of some useful resources and general WCAG principles in eLearning

How to automatically Create a VTT file with YouTube

A Practical Guide to Applying best-practice Accessibility Standards to L&D Resources
by Susi Miller

Use this guide to understand how to design inclusive and accessible learning content that works for everyone.

Great book that focus on accessibility from the perspective of eLearning content development.

ELearning Guild Review: https://learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/book-review-susi-millers-designing-accessible-learning-content

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A group working on accessibility standards for virtual environments

A free tool to check your entire site to see if it meets accessibility requirements. The tool is capable of automatically crawling an entire website (up to 60 seconds or 500 URLs, whichever comes first.

During this episode of IDIODC, Chris and Brent bring on special guest Brian Dusablon to share the many lessons he's learned while working to create inclusive and accessible learning experiences for ALL learners.

Interactive Advantage
Veterans of the e-Learning industry, Interactive Advantage offers consulting, authoring, and accessibility services. DHS Trusted Testers are on staff.

From Ability Net:
Enjoy affordable high-quality online training courses to help you build skills in accessibility and inclusive design.

Book your place on one of our upcoming courses below. If you're looking for training for more than 8 people on a single course, you can book in-house training and group training for all courses, or check out our eLearning options - get in touch to chat with us about your needs.

Deque - a great collection of accessibility webinars.

Hear from our innovative thought leaders on topics ranging from native mobile, UX design, development, Higher Ed, and Federal and how they relate to today’s accessibility trends.

Get a Professional Certificate in Accessibility and Universal Design in an online and Cohort based learning course.

from Susi Miller

Jenny Wincek joins #IDIODC to talk about the Trusted Tester program, as well as some of the basics of 508 and WCAG compliance, and why accessibility is important.

This is an Accessibility Sample of the original Workplace Safety Slips and Trips course. It has been edited to meet the WCAG requirements.

A Chrome plugin that will assist you in simulating different disability situations and testing your content. It is meant to provide some general guidance, but not provide a definitive answer for a given disability.

Additional Resources

Easily set the sequence and what on-page elements should be accessed by screen readers or keyboard users

Mapping of Screen Reader Compatibility (Jaws, NVDA, VoiceOver, etc.) with different versions of browsers and support for WCAG ARIA.

Shows how different WAI-ARIA attributes behave in commonly used screen readers.

The results include two types of test:

Expected to work - these tests show support when accessibility features are used correctly

Expected to fail - these tests show what happens when accessibility features are used incorrectly (marked with Expected to Fail)

Problem: When using NVDA it was not reading anything from the browser window, e.g., you tab through items and it was silent.