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312 Accessibility Features You May Not Know About in Tools You Already Use
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Wednesday, October 20
When designing courses, we want to create content that is as inclusive as possible for all of our learners. To do so, you may typically look into extra tools/resources or hire services to accommodate for learners who have specific needs. However, many of the popular tools you currently use to create training content may already contain accessibility features that you're not aware of. By exploring the accessibility features offered in commonly used tools, you can leverage these features when creating your content and educate your learners on how to use them to better their own learning experiences.
In this session, you'll learn about the built-in accessibility features in popular tools like Microsoft 365, Google Docs, and Adobe Acrobat Pro. You'll discover which tools you already use that have built-in transcription abilities for you to transcribe your audio files. You'll take a closer look at the importance of having live transcriptions in presentations/webinars and identify commonly used platforms that will allow you to add live transcription. You'll also explore the uses of the immersive reader and where to locate it in many tools you already use. Not only will learning about these tools (and more) provide you and your team with more ways to create inclusive content, you can also use this knowledge to educate your learners on how to review the materials given to them in ways that work best for them.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to utilize YouTube and Microsoft Stream to auto-caption videos
- How to use transcription creation in Word and Google doc
- How to enable the immersive reader tool in Microsoft Edge, Word, OneNote, and Teams
- How to activate live transcription in Teams and PowerPoint
- How to auto-tag a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
- How to use the accessibility checker in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- How to leverage the Math Assistant feature in OneNote
- How to turn on the accessibility view in Sway
Technology discussed in this session:
Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Stream, Edge, Teams, OneNote, and Sway), YouTube, Google Docs, Adobe Acrobat Pro DC
Judy Tseng
Senior Instructional Designer
Collegis Education
Judy Tseng is an instructional designer at Collegis Education and is the lead of the company's ADA project team for the content development department. Graduating from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a master's degree in education for instructional leadership, she's developed numerous higher education courses and training courses with clients from all different types of programs and backgrounds. She is also always passionate to learn more about what can be done to improve learning content to result in more engaging materials.
Kristin Swintek
Project Manager
Collegis Education
Kristin Swintek is a project manager for Collegis Education with 10 years' experience in eLearning. With a bachelor's degree in graphic design from Columbia College Chicago, Kristin has designed courses and trainings for corporate and higher education clients. They are passionate about creating eLearning content and media that is engaging for all learners and specializes in accessibility and universal design to ensure that people of all abilities can gain knowledge and enrich their world through education.