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LXD Style Guide

iPD’s Guide for Course Design & Development

Accessibility

Language Tag

Make course elements written in a language other than English machine readable by marking up the part of the text where you use a World Language by creating a language tag with a correct lang attribute in it.

Images of Text

Text should be used to convey content, rather than images of text. Exceptions include logotypes (text that is part of a logo or brand name) and images that are essential to the information being conveyed (i.e. images of primary source documents). These exceptions must be accompanied by a text alternative for learners. Complex images, such as charts or graphs, can be used where necessary, but must include an image transcript / long description.

H5P: Interactive Video Transcripts-Draft

Provide a text-based transcript for all such media, including H5P. This text-based alternative should take the form of a detailed transcript that includes all of the auditory and visual information contained in the time-based media that is relevant to the learner's understanding of the content they are learning about.

Audio

Pre-recorded audio must include a text-based alternative. There should also be options for users to pause or stop the audio and control the volume independently from the overall system volume. Additionally, if an audio file has speech in the foreground, users must be able to pause the background audio.