Practical guides for improving digital accessibility
Interactive resources to help you make your Blackboard content more accessible, including step-by-step guides for Word and PowerPoint.
Beth Hammond
How to check colour contrast for accessibility
Learn how to use an accessibility checker on your document and test colours with a contrast checker.
Mentimeter – sharing and access
Learn how to hide results, close a poll and share both the results and the presentation itself.
Adding a YouTube caption file to your video using Panopto
How to improve accessibility by adding a caption file to your Panopto video resource.
Adding a YouTube caption file to your video using Kaltura
How to improve accessibility by adding a caption file to your Kaltura video resource.
Getting started with Mentimeter
A quick guide to help you find your way around the Mentimeter polling tool.
Day 11 – Spruce up your Blackboard posts
Here are two ways you can add interest to your Blackboard posts. 1. Styles are for life, not just for Word documents In our previous post on Word styles, we … Read more
Day 7 – The joy of (plain) text: fixing funny formatting
Have you ever copy-and-pasted text from Word into a different piece of software, for example a Blackboard post, and found it looked… wrong? Maybe there were unnecessary spaces in words, … Read more
Day 5 – Naughty or nice? Splitting a list into first names and surnames
Oh deer! Santa’s elves have given him an Excel list of children to deliver presents to. But the addresses are ordered by surname, and the list of children can only … Read more
Day 2 – Christmas content-ment: why Word styles are a gift to yourself
You may have heard about using styles in MS Word to make your documents more accessible. That means defining your headings in a way that a screen reader can understand, … Read more