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Follow Up Friday

Don’t forget to add alt-text for all of your images in your online course! From the Archives: Alternative Tags for Accessibility Alternative tags or text exist as a means for providing information to learners who require the use of a screen reader. Images of all kinds will be detected by readers, and your learners who […]

Top Three Preparations for Next Semester

Learn about the top three course preparations you can make today that will save you headaches later! This week’s topics: The Top Three Preparations you can make for your Spring 2023 courses. The QM Cohort for professional development. Upcoming Events, including the Canvas Jumpstart Series workshops and the Clemson Online Spring 2023 Events Calendar. Top […]

Follow Up Friday

In case you missed it, catch this month’s talk about accessible PDFs! From the Archives: PDF Accessibility Check out the Lunch and Learn talk from Clemson Online’s Accessibility Coordinator, Michelle Tuten! She covers the importance of usability in creating digital content, how to create PDFs, and how to make those PDFs accessible for all users. […]

Make Your Hyperlinks Accessible

Embedding website addresses into your documents and Canvas pages can be accessible by applying just a couple of principles. It is easy to think that once you copy and paste a web address into a document, you have done your part to help learners navigate to the information you want them to see. However, for […]

Register for Clemson Online’s Accessibility Coordinator NDEAM Talk

Read below to see how you can learn to make your PDFs accessible for all!  Adobe Acrobat and Accessibility If you are using Adobe Acrobat to convert documents from Word or InDesign to PDFs, then you should be aware of tools in Acrobat to make your document accessible. Join Clemson Online’s Accessibility Coordinator Michelle Tuten […]

Follow Up Friday

Did you know you can enable Live Transcriptioning in your Zoom calls? Read below to find out how easy it is to do!  Quick Tip: Zoom Live Transcript If you meet regularly with your learners over Zoom or have virtual drop-in hours, be sure to inform your learners about Zoom’s live captioning and transcript features. […]