[LON-CAPA-admin] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA Compliance

[Kortemeyer, Gerd]

Hi Paul,

LON-CAPA is in pretty good shape. We had done a formal assessment several years ago, and we had more than one blind student using the system.

The equations can be read by screen reader if you have them in LaTeX source code and are using the MathJax rendering.

For the images, the LON-CAPA XML allows for alt-tags. By now, you can use GPT-4o to generate the text for those alt-tags, that works pretty well.

Best,

- Gerd.

> On Oct 9, 2024, at 20:46, Omernik, Paul via LON-CAPA-admin <LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org> wrote:
> 
> Good afternoon,
> 
> From this website: https://verbit.ai/education-elearning/ada-title-ii-update-mandates-digital-accessibility-for-colleges-and-universities-by-2026/
> 
> The US Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier this summer announced its final rule revising Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), requiring web and mobile application content to be accessible to people with disabilities.
> 
> Title II of the ADA applies to all state and local governments, which includes, among other entities, public schools, community colleges and public universities.
> 
> The rule, designed to ensure all digital services are ADA-compliant, clarifies the obligations of public education institutions to make their websites and mobile apps "readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities[...]"
> 
> I guess I'm not entirely sure how or what to ask, so I will start with: Will the XML that produces our problems on LON-CAPA be able to be made Title II compliant?
> 
> Is it possible to 'caption' a problem so a complex equation can be read by a screen reader? (Alt text?) The same for images of free-body diagrams or circuits, what have you?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Paul
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