Required - QA Accessibility 1.3: Compliant

QA Course Overview

Required

The Quality Assurance Rubric, for the Accessibility Section 1.3 states: 

The course is compliant with current accessibility standards.

 

From the SD Board of Regents

Expectations

  • Current accessibility standards are wide ranging and impact various areas of the course; ergo, to satisfy this standard, the course must:
    • Provide for text alternatives of images and other non-text content, including user interface components
    • Provide that pre-recorded audio is available in a visible format and that silent animations are available in an audible format
    • Provide for synchronized captioning of pre-recorded video and multimedia
    • Provide for audio description of pre-recorded video and multimedia
    • Provide for captioning of live video and multimedia
    • Provide that information and prompts are not conveyed only through color
    • Provide for specified contrast between foreground and background of text and images of text (e.g. 4.5:1)
    • Provide for the use of text, as opposed to images of text
    • Provide that headings and labels are descriptive

Examples

  • Courses utilizing visual elements, such as charts and graphs, must provide text-based descriptions of these.
    • Courses utilizing videos or animations with spoken text, music with lyrics, actions, etc. must provide synchronized captions, including text descriptions of music, actions/events, etc. Such captions must be 99% accurate or better. The same is true of live video (e.g. lectures, presentations, etc.).
    • In general, colors should be avoided as visual cues (e.g. "Click on the red arrow to continue.")
    • Content should have sufficient contrast between the foreground and background (e.g. avoid red text on a white background, etc.).
    • Documents should present accessible text; namely, no scans of chapters in PDF format that have not been processed via optical character recognition.
    • Tables should have headings or labels that sufficiently describe the contents in rows or columns, and use the appropriate markup to indicate this (e.g. TH element in HTML; in Word, creating header rows/columns, etc.).
    • Images should have alternate descriptions (via the ALT attribute in HTML, or populating the appropriate field in D2L when inserting images).
    • MathML should be used for all equations and formulae.
    • Course content should be organized by module/week/topic, not by type, as this is easier for students to navigate when using assistive technology.

References

 

DSU Knowledge Base Articles

Accessibility in Documents

https://support.dsu.edu/TDClient/1796/Portal/KB/?CategoryID=24435

 

Accessibility in D2L

https://support.dsu.edu/TDClient/1796/Portal/KB/?CategoryID=24471

 

 

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