{"id":101,"date":"2020-07-13T19:14:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/?p=101"},"modified":"2020-07-13T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:14:21","slug":"how-to-videos-for-educators-creating-accessible-word-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/how-to-videos-for-educators-creating-accessible-word-files\/","title":{"rendered":"How-to Videos for Educators: Creating Accessible Word files"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It can be challenging to find good tutorial-style videos for how to create accessible content. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WORD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-One\">The BrightSpace site offers one of the best video series for an educator-audience.<\/a> The series is from 2016 so features may display differently, depending on what version of Word you are running, but the core information is solid and can even be applied to other authoring platforms, such as Google Docs. Most authoring tools have similar accessibility features built-in &#8211; you just have to know to look for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-One\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"313\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.10.20-PM.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of the first video in the series showing how headings can be authored.\" class=\"wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.10.20-PM.png 556w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.10.20-PM-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BrighSpace created three detailed videos for how to make Word documents accessible by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-One\">Using Headings<\/a><\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-Two\" target=\"_blank\">Selecting fonts and <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-Two\">colours<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-Two\" target=\"_blank\"> and writing hyperlinks<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/community.brightspace.com\/s\/article\/Making-Word-Documents-Accessible-Part-Three\">Inserting objects and images, and using alt text<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=101&amp;action=edit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-1024x608.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of a clip from a how-to video on the Reading Rockets site that shows the viewer how to write appropriate alt text.\" class=\"wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-1024x608.png 1024w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-768x456.png 768w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-600x356.png 600w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM-945x561.png 945w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/kashbourne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/07\/Screen-Shot-2020-07-13-at-12.06.43-PM.png 1322w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A somewhat compliance-focused video is recommended to a K-12 audience on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingrockets.org\/article\/accessibility-tools-and-resources-getting-started-accessibility_ctd\">Reading Rockets<\/a> site. It offers a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CQD1skbTM5g\">6-minute video tutorial on creating accessible Word documents<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a compressed version of the information BrightSpace offers that focuses on the <em>how<\/em>, rather than the <em>why<\/em>. Warning: you might feel like someone is wagging their finger at you while you are watching this, and the video shows someone incorrectly selecting a Heading 1 style for what should be a Heading 2 element on the page but other than that, it&#8217;s a quick, clear how-to video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be challenging to find good tutorial-style videos for how to create accessible content. WORD The BrightSpace site offers one of the best video series for an educator-audience. 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