To ensure that your course is accessible to all students, make sure that it meets all of the following requirements:
- All content and learning activities are available in Brightspace no later than 7 days before the first day of class.
- Accommodation Statement is present and easily located.
- Copyright law is followed. Course breaks no copyright considerations. Where possible, Open Educational Resources, free, or low cost materials are used.
- Transcripts are provided for audio materials (mp3, wav, etc.) and videos/screencasts have closed-captions.
- Hyperlink text includes the hyperlink purpose and avoids raw URLs. For example, “Brightspace Help” is used instead of “https://go.geneseo.edu/brightspace.”
- All links, files, videos and external URLs are active, working, and up-to-date. Course is free of spelling and grammatical errors.
- Images are used to support course content (e.g., banners, headings and icons). They have text descriptions (alt text) or captions for more complex descriptions.
- Color does not overpower the course information. Enough contrast between text and background makes information easy to read. Color alone is not used to convey meaning.
- Styles (e.g. Paragraph, Heading 2, etc.) are used to format text. Sans serif (e.g., Arial or Helvetica) fonts are used. Font size 12 is the standard body text font size.
- Tables are only used for tabular data, and not for layout and design of non-tabular data. Tables include a title, description, and header rows and columns.
These requirements draw from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). Check out our accessibility resources for more information.