Talhah Diwan
Do you use the Manage Special Access feature in Brightspace when creating quizzes to provide extra time to certain students in order to facilitate barriers that students may have?This can become a quite a tedious task to do for...
Accessibility
Over the last few blog posts, we have looked at accessibility features to consider before and whilst preparing content. Eventually you will finish preparing your content, but once you have is there anything that you can do to check...
Less is more is a widely known phrase, but have we ever critiqued ourselves with it. This phrase can be used in various aspects, but we will be focusing on less quantity and complexity having more quality and being...
When creating content, pictures are often used to accompany text and visually stand out. It is often said that pictures are worth a thousand words, but we often forget that there are some students that may not be able...
Ensuring that your content is accessible is very important and, very often is a legal requirement. By accessible, we are talking about making sure that people with certain disabilities and other barriers can use your material, often by making...
Ammad Qureshi
The built-in accessibility checker in Brightspace’s text editor can detect basic contrast errors and problems. It gives quick problem resolutions and links to verified external sites for extra reading. The font colour picker also gives accessibility recommendations. Watch the...
Lucy Thacker
The immersive reader in teams allows the user to have channel posts and chat messages read aloud as well as some other read accessibility features, for example, changing the background colour for the text and changing the text language....
Have you ever been in a Teams meeting and you can’t quite read the information being shared? Now you can zoom into that screen with interrupting the person sharing or anyone else in the meeting! Watch the video below...
All uploaded resources in Brightspace have an ALLY score, this represents how accessible the resource is. You should always aim for green and with ALLY you can learn how to fix inaccessible resources. Below is a short video demonstration...