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Digital Content Accessibility: Best Practices, with icons for accessibility, vision, touch, speech, and hearing.

Variations Between Accessibility Checkers

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Accessibility checkers available in Microsoft products and MyCourses may provide different recommendations for improving the accessibility of digital content. It is not uncommon for content to ‘pass’ the Microsoft Accessibility Checker and then have more accessibility issues identified by Panorama after being uploaded to MyCourses.  Accessibility checkers are often built to serve different purposes which can impact the recommendations offered by the checker. What […]

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Digital Content Accessibility: PDFs, with icons for accessibility, vision, touch, speech, and hearing.

Improving the Accessibility of PDF Files

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PDFs can be created in many ways: exporting, converting, “Save As”, scanning, “Print to PDF”, and even created intentionally through software like Adobe Acrobat. Due to the wide range of origin points for PDFs, the accessibility issues that arise can be incredibly complex, so much so that they are not a recommended file type in most cases.  Information Technology (IT) generally does not advise using PDFs whenever possible. They are one of the least

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Academic Technology Updates for May 2023

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We have new updates for MyCourses and more! See below for details, and please contact helpdesk@ggc.edu if you encounter any problems or have questions. Did you know? Accommodation features and services are available to you and your students in MyCourses. Please read more about the automatic and instructor-enabled accessibility features and services that MyCourses has to offer.

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