LATTE Accessibility
Many of the choices you make while building your LATTE course can determine its overall accessibility. Here are some recommendations to help guide you. Note that LATTE also offers tools at the user level to make your own experience of creating the course more accessible.
Choosing a Course Format
LATTE offers several course formats. Some are more accessible than others. Formats can be changed in the Administration block by selecting "Edit Settings" and opening the "Course format" menu option.
Collapsible topics
Collapsible Topics is the most accessible course format offered in LATTE.
-
Topics display all the sections in a collapsible list by default.
-
To show one section per page, change the format under the "course layout" setting.
Course Content
Tips for the text editor
Using best practices for formatting when adding text can make content more accessible.
-
Use headings/styles and follow a logical outline
-
Make links descriptive
-
Add alt text for images
-
Voice and video options
-
Text size and/or color should not be used for emphasis or to convey other information
-
Choose embedding over linking
-
Use bullets or numbering options
Use LATTE pages
-
Better alternative to uploading a Word document or PDF
-
More accessible for screen readers
-
Responsive sizing for mobile devices
Captions, subtitles and transcripts
-
When requesting course videos, always include subtitles/captions in your request.
-
Transcripts and audio description are available on a per-case basis.
-
When choosing videos from YouTube, for example, choose the captioned version, if it exists,
Auto-linking filter
-
Give each document a unique name.
-
Auto Linking will create a link to the document in LATTE when the same title is used elsewhere in the course.
-
Turn on/off in the “Filter” settings.
Emojis
-
LATTE now supports emoji use.
-
Not all screen readers can read emojis.
-
Do not use emojis for meaningful content.