{"id":34,"date":"2020-11-25T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T15:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/?p=34"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T11:49:06","slug":"accessibility-and-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/2020\/11\/25\/accessibility-and-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessibility and Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week I have been working on how to improve accessibility of resources, focusing particularly on the four commonest issues flagged by Ally in Canvas. I have been working on the BMS Health and Safety course to check its accessibility. I found that while it’s easy to add an image description in the Ally view within Canvas, I wasn’t familiar with how to correct issues within the PDF itself. After a few searches online, I was able to come up with a guide to help others fix these issues. A quick summary is below. You can access the full walkthrough on the FMS Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The four commonest issues I found were; a lack of image descriptions, a lack of headings, the lack of document title, PDFs not being tagged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find the Original Document<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

These can be added under image formatting tools in Word and PowerPoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add or Define Headings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Make sure you are using the built-in style galleries and slide templates to format your document. This makes it easier for screen-readers to understand the structure of the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add a Document Title<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This setting lives on the ‘Info’ tab of a file – one that I had never paid attention to before!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tag your PDF<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After you have saved your file, you can also export<\/strong> it to PDF from the option on the same menu. Go to the advanced settings area and you can make sure that your PDF maker will include bookmarks and headings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can access the full walkthrough for each of these steps on the FMS Community<\/a>. More information about Ally and accessibility is available via LTDS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week I have been working on how to improve accessibility of resources, focusing particularly on the four commonest issues flagged by Ally in Canvas. I have been working on the BMS Health and Safety course to check its accessibility. I found that while it’s easy to add an image description in the Ally view … Continue reading “Accessibility and Ally”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[31,32,12,33,34,35],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide","tag-accessibility","tag-ally","tag-canvas","tag-fms-community","tag-guides","tag-new-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/2862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fmstel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}