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Creating accessible files is not as daunting a task as many believe it to be. These six steps will go a long way in making your content more accessible.

1. Provide Alternative Text descriptions (ALT Text) on photos or images
   • DO: Solar Eclipse, moon darkening 3/4 of sun leaving a glowing crescent
   • DON'T: Solar Eclipse
     
     
   • How to Add Alt Text in D2L
2. Provide a text equivalent for charts or graphs.
3. Use descriptive text for links
   • DO: The Library of Congress web site holds a wealth of free resources.
   • DON'T: Click here for a web site holds with wealth of free resources
     
     
   • How to Add Meaningful Links in D2L
4. Limit the use of color text, use only 1 color as a "hightlight" color.
   • Color blind students, and visually impaired students may not see that color as you see it (red may appear olive or grey).
   • Students with cognitive impairments, dyslexia, or other conditions can be confused and distracted by many different colors on a page.
   • Screen readers are not typically set to read the color of text as it disrupts the content flow.
     
     
5. Use the Heading and list features when creating your documents
   
   

• How to Add Heading Tags in D2L
• How to Add Lists in D2L
• How to Add Table Headers in D2L
• Include speaker notes in your narrated PowerPoint. These notes become the "closed caption" feature for deaf students.

More Information

More information on creating accessible content can be found on the ATC web site at: http://uwf.edu/offices/academic-technology-center/faculty-support-and-resources/accessibility/

Below are links to easy to follow instructions from WebAIM on making various documents accessible (pages will open in a new window).

• Microsoft Word
• Converting Word to PDF
• PowerPoint

You will have to copy your course content into your new official course shell. You may copy from a development course master or from a previous semester's course.

Note: If you need to copy content from another instructor's course, you must first be enrolled in that course as an instructor.

Here are the steps: Copy Course Components PDF Guide

Here is a link to the Collaborate session on Copying Course Components https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/jwsdetect/playback.jnlp?psid=2013-08-14.0956.M.5850FCE9A4C74EED855130EB8B37D5.vcr&sid=uwf0707

1. Open your new official course shell and go to "Edit Course" in the upper right corner of the navigation bar. 
2. On the next screen select the Import/Export/CopyComponents icon/link. 
3. Leave the default Copy Components from another Org Unit (course) and click Search for offering. 
4. On this page you may use the Search feature to find a course, or scroll through the pages.
   • If the oldest semesters are listed first, click twice on the Semester heading to re-sort by most recent semester.
5. Select the radio button next to the course you want to copy from, and then click Add Selected. 
6. Next, click the button that is labeled Copy All Components if you want everything from the previous course. (See below for instructions on selecting specific items)
7. Wait for the copy queue to finish (blue and white bar to the right of the screen

• If everything copied fine, you will see a check in a green circle.
• If there were errors in teh copy, you will see a message and you can view the copy history to see what may have not copied (typically the Calendar)

To select specific items to copy

• If you want to select specific items to copy, click on the Select Components button.
• You may also just check those items you wish to copy, such as the Question Library and/or Quizzes.
• If you only want the Content be sure to also select the Course Files as well.
• Please note that student data WILL NOT be copied over. 
• Then click Continue
• On the next screen you can modify your selections to specific items, or just click Finish. This may take a few moments so do not click copy more than onceor you will get multiple copies of your course in your new shell!
• On the next screen you will see a progress icon for each category of content. When you see all green check marks next to your items, click Done