NCPro Virtual Learning Environment Accessibility (under Americans with Disabilities Act)

We have started creating the closed captioning for the over 100 videos on the website.  We anticipate having all videos close captioned by the end of 2020. 

(Completed cases:  Case 1--Adult Wt Mgt, Case2--Hypertension, Case 3--Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Case 4--Malnutrition and Oncology)

If you have a student that needs close captioning for a specific case, please let us know and we will move that case to the top of our work list.  Otherwise we will be starting with the cases in numerical order. 

Most images have alternate text descriptions, however we are enhancing them to be more meaningful. 

If you have a student that needs access let us know and we will move the cases needed to the top of our work list

We are working with our technology partner to determine how we can best allow different views of the website when changes in appearance would be needed to facilitate viewing the content. 

For the Mind Maps where color has been used to designate applications versus the actual terms we are exploring other ways (different styles of fonts) that can be used to make this distinction in addition to color. 

Almost all of the downloadable activities have been transitioned from PDF to Word or Excel documents which have met accessibility standards. 

The word documents are generally in table format.  Excel document include headers and do not include graphics.  Titles of hyperlinks are descriptive. 

We are exploring how to include a “Skip navigation” feature that will allow students using screen readers to ignore the navigation links and go directly to webpage content.

There are still some webpages that are images of pages that need to be transformed into actual webpage content. 

The plan is to have this completed by the end of 2020. 

However if you have a student that needs a specific case completed prior the end of the year, please contact us and we will move that case up in priority order. 

Specific information will be posted in the Student Case tab as well as the Educator tab about our progress toward maximum accessibility. 

The Contact us feature is the best way to ensure that everyone on our team receives the request and can respond quickly.