Accessibility Standards Technical Guide For Moodle
Use this checklist below to review your course for accessibility. For each topic, review the need for meeting the standard, how to meet the standard in your course, along with an example of what a correction looks like.
Topics
1. Abbreviations/Acronyms
Need: Full definition of abbreviation/acronym
How to: Look the course pages and handouts and anytime an abbreviation or acronym is found, add the full name by 
Example:
NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration
2. Audio or Video Created/Hosted by Clarkson University's Echo360
Need: Plain-text transcript or description of all audio or video files created and/or hosted by Clarkson University instructor (file is embedded or linked from Echo360). (If presentations are created with recorded audio, a script used to record the audio may be acceptable.)
How to: review how to turn on automatic transcribing (and closed captioning) Echo360: Automatic Speech Recognition or ASR Students who view/listen to the video or audio recording will also have the option to read the transcript.
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3. Charts & Diagrams
Need: All charts and diagrams need descriptions. Academic/content knowledge is needed to accurately describe some images, charts and diagrams.
How to:
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4. Color Schemes for Files (Presentations, Media, Text, etc.)
Need: Use high-contrast colors together, especially with text (light on dark, dark on light). Avoid using red for text and background images/patterns behind text. Only solid colored backgrounds should be used for text.
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5. Data Tables
Need: All data tables must have a title and a text description of the data in the table that is being shown
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6. Hyperlinks/URLs
Need: Descriptive title for links (i.e. name of website, title of article, title/description of file)
How to: for step-by-step instructions see the article Create an Active Hyperlink
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7. Images
Need: All images must have descriptions if the image is relevant to the learning material. Screen readers will read the description of any image in the page.
How to: When adding an image, fill in any information about the image when prompted, giving the image a descriptive name or describing the image in more depth if necessary. To edit an image already in the course, click on the image to select it, click on the image tool (or right click on the image and choose edit image from the drop down menu. Add the complete description or if the image is not important to the content of the course add double quotes "" in the description area. Screen readers will skip any image with double quotes.
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8. Mathematical Equations & Symbols
Need: Names of symbols or definition of equation
How to:
Example:
- Equation: a2 + b2 = c2
- Definition: a squared plus b squared equals c squared
9. Multimedia
Need: Plain-text transcript or description of multimedia (content used to create the multimedia is usually acceptable)
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10. PDFs (Portable Document Formats)
Need: PDFs must be text-based, not scanned. If scanning is the only option, they must be scanned using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and reviewed for accuracy. Publishers of articles can be contacted to request text-based electronic copies.
How to: If you have a scanned PDF file, use Google Gemini , which is included with your Clarkson Google Workplace for Education plan. TLC Staff will be glad to help you turn your scanned PDFs into text-based PDFs.
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