Use AI to create text to speech - free (for now at least)!

From time to time people think about adding a background "soundtrack" to learning, with the idea that this will enhance the experience. We strongly discourage this and in fact have taken measures to eliminate making it easy to add this functionality in dominKnow | ONE as it is actually a detriment to the learning experience. This article provides a good summary as to why you should avoid falling into this trap.

The article also points out the fallacy of seeking to have "narration" that simpl...

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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.

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.

ADL xAPI Profile Server to search, create and publish xAPI profiles.

I shared the Pantone color of the year for 2020 and just realized I missed sharing it this year. So... better late than never.
Check out the Pantone Color of the Year for 2021.




Spoiler alert: This year it seems to be 2 colors...a combo.

A group working on accessibility standards for virtual environments

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

After system updates of dominKnow | ONE it is recommended that you clear your browser cache. Only the files should be cleared. There is no need to clear cookies or browser history. When clearing the files we recommend the "all" or "all time" options to make sure nothing is missed.

Clearing only these files will, at worse, cause some sites you visit to be slightly slower the next time you visit, as the cached files are re-aquired. Think of it almost as a "reboot" of the browser.

This wikih...

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

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, ...

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?