Accommodations
Seth Killian
Hi Nicole Puig, we rely on the browser's built-in zoom functionality to increase the size. For windows, you can do control and the plus sign or with mac, the command and plus key. Or you can go to view on the toolbar and click zoom in.
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Nicole Puig
Seth Killian: That is not always optimal with how the window might act with images, if text has to be scrolled across, etc. But ok.
On a related note, what about having an option to switch to a "dark" mode? I have a couple of students with visual processing challenges who keep their screen almost blacked out (to where I literally can't even read what's on the screen!), to dim/darken the harsh visual contrast from the white background on most online sites.
Seth Killian
Nicole Puig: Great point! I agree dark mode is much friendlier in many circumstances. That will be a longer term initiative because we'll have to go back and adjust much of our content to be more compatible with it, but I'd love to see us move that direction.
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Nicole Puig
Seth Killian: Sounds wonderful, thanks. Any accommodation options that are easy for instructors to turn on ourselves really make the whole process smoother and more equitable.
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Nicole Puig
Seth Killian: Additional request on here. I now also have a student who is totally blind and uses a Braille reader. The site is completely unusable with her accessibility software.
It would be great to have a text-only version, like for the feature currently under review for pdf, if we could PLEASE PLEASE make that pdf OCR readable, so that screen readers could read the document.
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an image file version of pdf where there is no text recognized. Should I fill out a separate feature request for this?