Accessibility – Michigan Virtual https://michiganvirtual.org Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:02:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://michiganvirtual.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-mv-favicon-32x32.png Accessibility – Michigan Virtual https://michiganvirtual.org 32 32 YouTube Closed Captions for Hearing Impaired Students https://michiganvirtual.org/blog/youtube-closed-captions-for-hearing-impaired-students/ Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:37:17 +0000 https://michiganvirtual.site.strattic.io/blog/design-learning-for-visually-impaired-students-with-nvda/

Jeff shows how teachers can use YouTube’s closed captioning to support access to videos for those with hearing impairments and other accessibility needs.

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This webinar was originally posted on the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute website.

Jeff shows how teachers can use YouTube’s closed captioning to support access to videos for those with hearing impairments and other accessibility needs.

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Jeff reviews Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA), an open source screen reader for Windows. Screen readers help those with vision impairments to access digital content. Teachers can use screen readers to check that web content for lessons is accessible to students with visual impairments.

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This webinar was originally posted on the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute website.

Jeff reviews Non-Visual Desktop Access (NVDA), an open source screen reader for Windows. Screen readers help those with vision impairments to access digital content. Teachers can use screen readers to check that web content for lessons is accessible to students with visual impairments.

Resources

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The Accessible Classroom is a video series exploring web accessibility for K-12 education. In this first video, Jeff takes a look at the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the perspective of schools.

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This webinar was originally posted on the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute website.

The Accessible Classroom is a video series exploring web accessibility for K-12 education. We’ll dive into concepts and tools that can help schools ensure access to digital learning spaces for all students. In this first video, Jeff takes takes a look at the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the perspective of schools.

Resources from this episode:

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