Alt Text (Alternative Text) helps people with visual impairments access information in pictures and other graphical content, by adding descriptive text to convey its meaning and context. You can fix this by adding Alt Text to pictures, shapes, graphics, charts, or other objects in your Office 365 resources. To add …
A fantastic feature in Class Notebook is the ability to create inclusive Math by using the Math tool found in the Draw Ribbon. Math can being challenging for some students with One Note Class Notebook it includes a Math tools that can help all types of learners with solving equations. …
Found under the View Ribbon, Immersive Reader is a feature that presents a document in an easier format and can even read it aloud. The immersive reader is most effective when used within the Office 365 online version of apps, with some limited features available in desktop applications. Immersive Reader can …
Woohoo you have made it to the end of the week! If you have been following our accessibility bite-size blog series you should now be fully equipped to follow the C.H.I.L.L best practice guide when building your accessible resources. Here’s where you can find all this week’s bite-size blogs. But …
Found under the Home Ribbon within office 365 apps like Word, OneNote and Teams using heading styles is a good way to start making your documents more accessible. When constructing a resource in Word for example using different heading styles can help keep your resource accessible. People using screen readers …
When putting together new resources whether in Word, PowerPoint or any of Microsoft’s suite of apps you need to think about the colours you use, be it the background or text colour or even the colour and contrast of shapes, charts and images, especially when they include text. When picking …
Introduction To celebrate the 10th Global Accessibility Awareness Day on the 20th of May, the Digital Learning Team will be providing two weeks of bite-sized blogs dedicated to digital accessibility. The team will be sharing guides, top tips, and links to additional training every day to help you to ensure …
As of 23 September 2018 new legislation states our websites or mobile apps must be more accessible by making them ‘perceivable, operable, understandable and robust’. The new legislation builds on the colleges existing obligations to people who have a disability under the Equality Act 2010. Making a website or mobile …
Each section in LearnZone has four buttons under the section title. The lightbulb icon can be toggled on/off by clicking the left mouse button on the icon. This will identify the specific section as the current topic. Highlighting a current topic will mean that section is shown first when entering …
The Class Notebook is a Microsoft OneNote document embedded within a Microsoft team site. It is like having a traditional paper-based notebook or exercise book online but with the benefits of being able to include media-rich content and feedback alongside live online collaboration. When a Class Notebook is created, all of …
