Digital Accessibility
Support for everyone. ITS helps faculty offer their students accessible course content and equitable user experiences, with the technology solutions we support.
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Commitment to Accessibility
LMU aims to provide inclusive learning environments and equitable learning experiences to all students. To support a spectrum of needs, faculty are encouraged to ensure their digital content meets accessibility standards and is usable in alternative formats.
ITS supports Digital Accessibility, the process of creating digital content that any user can access. Learn about the foundational Principles and Practices of Digital Accessibility that address how people understand and use your course material.
Multiple Approaches
Remediate to Improve
In the short term, making your content accessible will need to involve going back into any of the learning material that you currently share with students and making reasonable efforts to implement suggested changes that improve the degree of compliance.
Design to Include
In the longer term, ensuring your new learning material is accessible as well as inclusive will be a forward-looking and intentional process that involves designing with a variety of user abilities in mind, plus following fundamental guidelines from the beginning.
Available Tools
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- Brightspace Checker, available in the content editor, suggests ways to address accessibility issues in a given content item.
- Panorama Platform can check entire Brightspace courses for accessibility issues, show ways to address the issues, and let faculty choose which formats to make available.
- Doc Hub Tool brings the power of Panorama to people remediating documents outside of Brightspace.
Drivers
Standards
LMU complies with internationally recognized standards, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1 Level AA).
Values
Digital accessibility aligns with the promotion of justice in LMU's Mission and with the ITS Core Value of Inclusion.
Panorama
What It Is: Panorama is a content remediation system that helps instructors meet digital accessibility standards.
How It Works: Panorama reviews Brightspace course content and suggests key improvements for compliance.
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Support System
In support of the tools we provide, ITS also provides these resources for your reference.