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Push the boundaries of accessibility in higher education

Education in the digital age should never limit learning opportunities. To help every student reach their full potential, you need to be ready to meet a diverse range of individual needs and help overcome physical and mental barriers. Choose a technology provider that can partner with you to easily deliver a fully accessible learning experience and meet the needs of all learners.
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Be an accessibility leader

Today’s learners have a variety of needs that have to be met to provide equitable access to education. We’ve made it easy for you deliver fully accessible experiences for all your learners by automatically captioning videos in different languages for free and providing a built-in accessibility checker for content, quizzing, and discussions. This helps you to not only identify barriers but also work to remove them. We go beyond implementing technology with accessibility in mind—we’re helping build the next generation of accessibility standards.

Reimagining Accessibility Online: Designing for Equity First

As more and more teaching and learning moves online, providing multiple ways for students to interact and gain and demonstrate knowledge is deeply important, especially for students with disabilities. What should faculty and instructors know? Explore the importance of accessibility in the digital era.

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Get the tools you need to help all learners succeed

You focus on the teaching, we’ll make sure it’s accessible. We’ve built in all the tools you need to help make your courses more accessible. Our internal accessibility team tests every feature to make sure it’s ready to support you as the educator!

Make meeting the highest accessibility standards easy with our built-in Accessibility Checker.
Simplify the navigation of your learning environment with a responsive design for a consistent experience on tablets and mobile devices.
Support the tools your learners use such as screen readers, braille outputs, screen magnifiers, color contrast plug-ins, and other tools that enable reading comprehension.
Meet individual learner needs by utilizing the release conditions and Intelligent Agents in Brightspace.
Assist the learners who need extra time to complete tasks or require remedial help by customizing individual time limits for quizzes and assignments.

One company that has made a lasting commitment to accessibility is D2L (Desire2Learn). D2L serves as an example of what can be done by a company that makes accessibility one of its ground rules. In 2013, D2L was honored with a Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award, the highest award presented by the National Federation of the Blind to organizations and individuals whose innovations have enhanced the lives of blind people.

– National Federation of the Blind

We needed an LMS that could provide a reliable environment for our students. Brightspace has definitely been that.

– Carlos Carrillo, Director of Learning Management Systems and Services, Pima Community College

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What really matters is that the company you are partnering with is going in the same direction that you are. D2L deserves full credit for its commitment to accessibility. They are excited about what they do, and we are eager to make accessibility pervasive.

– Andy Freed, Manager of Technology & Support, Portland Community College

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Including Everyone by Design

Inclusion is a part of our organizational culture, accessibility is an integral component of our development lifecycle, and designing with empathy is the hallmark of our user experience teams. By aligning our processes with global accessibility standards, we make our products useable by people with disabilities and interoperable with assistive technologies.

In short—you want to make sure all your learners are included. We’re here to help you make that happen.

We openly report our conformance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AAA standards and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, 1973. Our WCAG Checklist and Section 508 VPAT are published on our accessibility compliance page.

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