The Accessibility Filescan block was developed to help determine how friendly course PDFs are to assistive technology such as Read & Write, Kurzweil, screen readers, and various other tools students might use to help them consume course readings.
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This tool is not a guarantee that a document is fully accessible; it is a useful indicator of how much of your course material may be friendly to assistive technology. |
To access the Accessibility Filescan (and all other) blocks, open the "block drawer" on the right of your Moodle course. Please see Moodle Blocks for more thorough information.
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For existing PDF documents, upload your file on the convert inaccessible course material page and choose the accessibility conversion option. It is possible to select multiple documents to be converted at one time. You will receive the converted document(s) via email within a few hours.
For newly scanned documents, all department Canon multifunction machines have been set to automatically scan documents using OCR.
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Scanning tips: Make sure your scans can be seen by everyone Not all documents can successfully be made accessible. Consult this guide on high-quality scans from the University of Washington to understand what makes a scan able to be seen and read by most people. A high-quality scan contains
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To check that your scan was OCR'd, try copying some text from the document and pasting it into Word. If you can successfully paste the text you copied, your document has been OCR'd, but you should check a few things:
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