Accessibility – Technically Speaking

Accessibility – Technically Speaking

Accessibility means more than ramps, braille, and sign language interpreters. Making programs at NMC accessible to our students with disabilities can take many forms. In this recurring piece we will explore a variety of strategies for accommodating students with...
Accessibility Tips: Check your Moodle Course with WAVE

Accessibility Tips: Check your Moodle Course with WAVE

Here’s how you can check your eLearning (Moodle) course for accessibility using the WAVE add-on for Mozilla Firefox. In Mozilla Firefox: Select Tools. Select Add-ons. Select Search – Available Add-ons. Search for WAVE Toolbar. * Select see all ### results...
Accessibility Tips:  Working with Images

Accessibility Tips: Working with Images

Are images bad for accessibility? “Some people wrongly assume that images are bad for accessibility, since alt text essentially replaces the image with a text-only version of that image. The logical extension of that thought is that text-only sites are ideal for...