00:10:46 mpiper: Hello All! Great to be here! 00:10:52 Denis Lalonde: Reacted to "Hello All! Great to be here!" with πŸ‘‹ 00:15:08 E0971636: Reacted to "Hello All! Great to ..." with πŸ‘ 00:20:19 Denis Lalonde: To add, mental health conditions are also often associated with episodic disabilities -- e.g. depression, anxiety, PTSD. 00:22:23 Crystal Allen: This is wonderful! 00:23:01 mpiper: We will be sending these links out after the session, including links to the Brightspace Accessibility Academy. 00:23:09 E9505847: Reacted to "We will be sending t..." with πŸ‘ 00:23:13 Annapurna Jonnalagadda: Reacted to "We will be sending t..." with πŸ‘ 00:28:44 Denis Lalonde: 'Text alternatives' come in many forms -- e.g. ALT tags for images, captions/transcripts for multimedia, text summary for a complex chart/graph, etc. 00:29:00 Ruth Helgerud: Reacted to "We will be sending these links out after the session, including links to the Brightspace Accessibility Academy." with πŸ‘ 00:32:01 Denis Lalonde: The Brightspace 'Accessibility Checker' icon (i.e. the silhouette of the person in a circle) may be hidden in some tool bars. You may need to 'expand' the tool bar to it's full size (select the icon showing four arrows pointing to the corners) to see all the icons in the Brightspace tool bars. 00:32:27 Stacy Oberle: Reacted to "We will be sending t..." with πŸ‘ 00:32:47 Crystal Allen: yes 00:35:18 Denis Lalonde: If you'd like to learn more about the specific checks made by the 'Accessibility Checker', you can find out more here: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/1599-brightspace-accessibility-checker This link will be included in the presentation as well. 00:37:00 Adriana Novaes: The accessibility checker sometimes flags a subtitle as missing header. 00:46:23 Talel Wahabi: Reacted to "If you'd like to learn more about the specific checks made by the 'Accessibility Checker', you can find out more here: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/1599-brightspace-accessibility-checker This link will be included in the presentation as well." with βž• 00:46:30 Denis Lalonde: Note, text within images/videos will not be scanned by the accessibility checker. Developers should manually check the contrast of the foreground text on the background colour in any images containing text. I'll like to use a colour picker browser extension to get the hex codes and this website (https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ ) to check the contrast in these instances. 00:46:35 Talel Wahabi: Reacted to "If you'd like to learn more about the specific checks made by the 'Accessibility Checker', you can find out more here: https://community.d2l.com/brightspace/kb/articles/1599-brightspace-accessibility-checker This link will be included in the presentation as well." with πŸ‘ 00:48:57 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "The accessibility checker sometimes flags a subtitle as missing header." Depending on the formatting on the subtitle (e.g. if the subtitle was all bold), the checker may think it should be a heading and will flag it. This is a great example as to why a human review is always needed for accessibility remediation. Automated tools do not consider/understand the context of the content we develop. 00:55:07 Denis Lalonde: Tagging the proper language is also important when you consider cognates (i.e. words that are spelled the same in two different languages, but pronounced differently). For example, 'ambulance' is spelled the same in French and English but pronounced very differently. 00:55:22 Christopher Chenier: W3 Alt-Text decision tree: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/ 00:55:34 Denis Lalonde: Reacted to "W3 Alt-Text decision tree: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/" with πŸ‘ 00:55:54 Crystal Allen: Reacted to "W3 Alt-Text decision..." with πŸ‘ 00:57:52 Eunice Baca: Reacted to "W3 Alt-Text decision..." with πŸ‘ 01:02:46 Denis Lalonde: Reading order is important for everyone, but especially important for low vision/non-sighted users. Reading order applies to nearly every content type (i.e. HTML, PowerPoints, Word docs, PDFs). Having an improper reading order is equivalent to randomly organizing the paragraphs and images on a page. Improper reading order significantly increases the cognitive load required for understanding content. 01:03:47 Christopher Chenier: Reacted to "Reading order is imp..." with πŸ‘ 01:05:20 Denis Lalonde: OCR = optical character recognition, a feature to convert images of text to plain text. AI tools are improving at OCR, and as Dr. Sam mentioned, some browsers are building out this feature. 01:06:43 Christopher Chenier: Are the slides with links available to download? 01:06:43 Denis Lalonde: The same is true for me, reach out anytime with questions (denis.lalonde@d2l.com). 01:06:57 Amy Salazar: thank you. 01:07:16 Helen Gore-Laird (She/Her): How do you handle a peer-reviewed article that you scanned in it is flagged for a language problem. 01:07:20 Miriam Dexter: Thank you. 01:07:33 Ruth Helgerud: I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading 01:07:36 Morenike Adebodun: Thank you 01:08:06 E0971636: This was wonderful, so much to consider. Thank you! 01:08:37 Christopher Chenier: Awesome, thanks! 01:08:41 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" Depending on the software, you should be able to add alt text to your written annotations. Another option is to type out your annotated notes so they exist in a plain text format that's included with the rest of their feedback. 01:08:45 Joanne: What is the deal with "headers"? All myword documents are being diged for notnhavingnheaders and they either already have them or do no need them 01:09:09 Adriana Novaes: Do you have any advice for STEM content? 01:11:47 Ruth Helgerud: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" I take notes on slides as I lecture, which often includes arrows and circles or boxes around both handwritten and existing text on the slides. All the annotations are treated as images. Should I just add descriptions in PPT before converting to PDFs to upload? 01:11:54 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "What is the deal with "headers"? All myword documents are being diged for notnhavingnheaders and they either already have them or do no need them" If you are including the semantic headings in your document processor (e.g. using the 'Styles' in Word), the checker should recognize these as headings. Text that is sized up and formatted to look like a heading will be flagged as missing. Are you referring to 'headers' in tables or 'headings' to help structure the page? 01:12:26 Silvia Huntsman: What happens when you are using more of one language in a file? 01:12:43 Stephenson Chea: Reacted to "Do you have any advi..." with πŸ‘ 01:13:12 Christopher Chenier: Replying to "Do you have any advi..." https://www.w3.org/Math/whatIsMathML.html 01:13:27 Anjali Chaudhary: Replying to "What is the deal wit..." Is there any way hand written document pdfs can be made accessible? 01:13:31 Christopher Chenier: Replying to "Do you have any advi..." https://www.w3.org/Math/ 01:13:31 Ruth Helgerud: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" Note: I teach math so much of the annotation is also symbolic 01:13:51 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): When you create a file in D2L the H1 always includes a line below it. Is there a way to change this format? 01:13:54 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" Exactly, those images can still have ALT tags added to them so select each of them in PPT and describe what they are showing (e.g. the relationship between two objects, or additional context/text). 01:14:25 Sambhavi Chandrashekar: PhET Colorado 01:14:36 Christopher Chenier: Replying to "Do you have any advi..." https://math.nist.gov/~BMiller/LaTeXML/ 01:14:49 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "What happens when you are using more of one language in a file?" In Word (and Adobe, I believe) you can select specific parts of the text and set the language for a specific piece of content and not the entire document. 01:15:01 Eunice Baca: Thank you for a very informative session. 01:15:12 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "What is the deal with "headers"? All myword documents are being diged for notnhavingnheaders and they either already have them or do no need them" Hand written documents should be run through an OCR tool to convert them to plain text. 01:15:16 Adriana Novaes: We have had success using CoPilot for converting Word, PowerPoint and pdf to Math Jax HTML. 01:15:33 Ruth Helgerud: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" That’s what I was thinking, though I’m trying to figure out how to optimize what is done pre-lecture and how much work I have to do post-lecture before uploading in a timely manner for the students 01:15:59 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "When you create a file in D2L the H1 always includes a line below it. Is there a way to change this format?" That will be a style decision specific to your CSS style sheet. If you'd like to change that style, you will need to create and use a different CSS style sheet. 01:16:06 Joanne: Why is Ally telking me to fix headers in word documents that do not have headers 01:16:28 Silvia Huntsman: Replying to "What happens when yo..." Thank you 01:16:42 Joanne: It is telling me there is an issue with headers when there are no headers 01:17:08 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "We have had success using CoPilot for converting Word, PowerPoint and pdf to Math Jax HTML." Yes! AI tools are getting pretty good at converting to specific markup mathematical languages. Always double check the outputs as complex simples/characters can be improperly transcribed. 01:18:46 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Reacted to "That will be a style..." with πŸ‘ 01:18:49 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Replying to "When you create a fi..." Thank you! 01:18:59 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" If you're reusing your lectures, you could create a version with all your annotation (and the appropriate alt text) included. Then, you could add 'animations' to your presentation to 'reveal' the annotations as you lecture. This approach will work if your annotations are always the same, if you're 'freestyling' your lectures and the annotation vary each lecture, this approach may not work. 01:19:23 Skye Ibarra: Is there a best practice for how to include transcripts with videos on D2L? Right now I have a link next to the video but is there a better way to attach these when it comes to e-readers and other devices? 01:21:27 E9505847: Can you say more about best practices for using videos posted to Youtube? Yuja allows you to add captions and do other things for videos you create but the entire Accessibility tab is disabled for Youtube videos. 01:22:05 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "Is there a best practice for how to include transcripts with videos on D2L? Right now I have a link next to the video but is there a better way to attach these when it comes to e-readers and other devices?" This is a perfectly acceptable approach. We do it as well. Sometimes we'll hide a transcript in an accordion panel after the video, or link it directly as a separate document immediately before or after the video. One of the biggest considerations is making sure it is clear that the transcript is associated with the multimedia content (e.g. use the same title of the video and transcript). 01:22:05 Ruth Helgerud: Replying to "I’m trying to figure out the best way to convert stylus initiated annotations on slides to accessible content for uploading" I’ve considered that, and I do use animations, but I really find the physical act of drawing as I speak helps with engagement and engagement in live lectures. But the annotations are still similar, so I think I will create some alt text that I can then just tweak if needed before uploading lecture slides. Thank you! 01:22:19 Denis Lalonde: This page contain the video Dr. Sam just referenced: https://www.d2l.com/goa11y/values/#:~:text=Values-,Disability%20Sensitivity,-Nearly%201.85%20billion 01:22:47 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): What is the best way to handle embedded YouTube videos? PPTX flags it has not having captions, but the video is captioned. Is it best to just put in a link that takes you directly to the video in YouTube or is there a different recommendation at this point? 01:23:14 Skye Ibarra: Replying to "Is there a best pr..." Thank you! I have them immediately after but I'll be sure to look at changing the title of these. 01:23:15 Mark Filer: Yuja should be able to automatically add transcripts and captions https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/29018436406935-Creating-an-Auto-Generated-Summary-and-Outline-in-AccessNotes https://support.yuja.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043421473-Adding-Auto-Captions-to-Media 01:23:20 Grimilda Stanley: You can use YuJa Lumina which is available to Lone Star Faculty https://vtac.lonestar.edu/help/accessibility-getting-started 01:23:32 Josslynn Syon: Reacted to "You can use YuJa Lumina which is available to Lone Star Faculty https://vtac.lonestar.edu/help/accessibility-getting-started" with ❀️ 01:23:35 Mark Filer: Reacted to "You can use YuJa Lum..." with ❀️ 01:23:36 Julie: What is the best AI tool to generate audio descriptions? 01:24:35 Stephenson Chea: Reacted to "Yuja should be able ..." with πŸ‘ 01:24:44 Stephenson Chea: Reacted to "You can use YuJa Lum..." with πŸ‘ 01:24:50 Ruth Helgerud: Can this chat with questions and answers be saved and shared along with the webinar recording? 01:25:01 Paul Miller: Replying to "What is the best way..." You can mark the embed video as decorative. Then put a descriptive link to the Youtube video under the embedded video. 01:25:08 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "What is the best way to handle embedded YouTube videos? PPTX flags it has not having captions, but the video is captioned. Is it best to just put in a link that takes you directly to the video in YouTube or is there a different recommendation at this point?" Including a link to the original video is always a great idea. PowerPoint's checker isn't smart enough to know whether there is captions or not. You can ignore that flag. 01:25:13 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Reacted to "You can mark the emb..." with πŸ‘ 01:25:19 mpiper: Replying to "Can this chat with questions and answers be saved and shared along with the webinar recording?" Yes, I will download the chat as well and provide that. 01:25:23 Denis Lalonde: Reacted to "You can mark the embed video as decorative. Then put a descriptive link to the Youtube video under the embedded video." with πŸ‘ 01:25:24 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Reacted to "Including a link to ..." with πŸ‘ 01:25:27 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Replying to "What is the best way..." Thank you! 01:25:48 Mark Filer: Someone asked about headers, to my knowledge headers are required, if your document doesn't have them, you would need to add them: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/headings-and-labels.html 01:25:59 Ruth Helgerud: Reacted to "Yes, I will download the chat as well and provide that." with ❀️ 01:27:48 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "What is the best AI tool to generate audio descriptions?" Audio descriptions (i.e. audio tracks that take into consideration the non-auditory action of video) are pretty complicated and are generally best created 'by hand'. There are services that offer the creation of audio description, but I wouldn't rely on an AI tool for generating audio descriptions simply because it won't do a good job understanding the context. We've leverage the services of 3Play in the past when we needed audio descriptions created. 01:28:17 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "Someone asked about headers, to my knowledge headers are required, if your document doesn't have them, you would need to add them: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/headings-and-labels.html" That is correct. They play an important part in improving the navigability of a page. 01:28:53 Paul Miller: Reacted to "Yes, I will download..." with ❀️ 01:29:19 Julie: Reacted to "Someone asked about headers, to my knowledge headers are required, if your document doesn't have them, you would need to add them: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/headings-and-labels.html" with πŸ‘Œ 01:29:37 Mark Filer: no it does have those features, I'm just not 100% familiar with using the auto-generated transcript, so I didn't want to say too much about it 01:29:58 Denis Lalonde: Replying to "Is there a best practice for how to include transcripts with videos on D2L? Right now I have a link next to the video but is there a better way to attach these when it comes to e-readers and other devices?" I think Dr. Sam covered this, but ensure that 'non-auditory action' (e.g. things that are shown but not spoken) should be written out in the detailed transcript. These are sometimes referred to as 'extended transcripts'. 01:30:00 Mark Filer: Replying to "no it does have that..." but the links I included provide information on those features 01:34:47 Ashley Shell Wilson (she/her): Thank you this was very informative! You are both great! 01:35:00 Ruth Helgerud: This was very helpful! 01:35:04 Crystal Allen: Amazing Workshop! 01:35:09 Rene Arnold: Thank you! 01:35:23 Stephenson Chea: Thanks again. Very informative. 01:35:28 Silvia Huntsman: Thank you! It was very helpful. 01:35:37 Julie: Very helpful. Thanks! 01:35:57 Adriana Novaes: Thank you! 01:36:12 Skye Ibarra: Thanks to you both! 01:36:19 Denis Lalonde: Email me at denis.lalonde@d2l.com 01:36:52 Stacy Oberle: Thank you for this discussion! 01:37:04 E9505847: Thank you 01:37:09 Kelsey Jackson: Thank you! This was very insightful. 01:37:23 Zahra Lahiji: Thanks! 01:37:32 Denis Lalonde: Take care! 01:37:47 Josslynn Syon: thanks a million 01:37:58 Liz Maloney: Thank you so much!