{"id":4242,"date":"2024-01-14T16:43:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T16:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2024-02-24T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T14:55:05","slug":"improving-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2024\/01\/14\/improving-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"improving accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3300\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/05\/vle.png 947w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Every year we take a snapshot of accessibility in our VLE. Over the summer 3,508 documents across 1,441 courses from across the University were reviewed against a defined selection of accessibility criteria by our excellent team of interns. The results were encouraging:<\/p>\n<p>87.6% of documents reviewed were named appropriately (i.e. so that users can anticipate the contents in advance of opening the files)<br \/>\nWithin the documents checked, 74.4% used a more accessible font (sans serif)<br \/>\n80.7% of documents were justified\/aligned in a way that supports more users (i.e. not centre or fully justified)<br \/>\nItalics text is harder for some people to read in blocks, and 89.4% of documents contained no blocks of italics. The same counts for blocks of capital letters, and a whopping 97.9% of documents contained no blocks of capital letters.<\/p>\n<p>Well done to all at University of Edinburgh who are changing their practice to be more inclusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year we take a snapshot of accessibility in our VLE. Over the summer 3,508 documents across 1,441 courses from across the University were reviewed against a defined selection of accessibility criteria by our excellent team of interns. The results were encouraging: 87.6% of documents reviewed were named appropriately (i.e. so that users can anticipate &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[479,125,422],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","category-eople-place-work","tag-digital-internships","tag-interns","tag-internships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}