University of Waterloo Resources and Additional Help
About Accessibility
Web accessibility refers to how easily people with disabilities can navigate and interact with websites. Disabilities may be physical (such as blindness, low vision, deafness, or fine motor skills difficulty), or cognitive (such as dyslexia or attention deficit disorder). People with disabilities often use assistive technologies to help them navigate the web. An assistive technology is any device that helps a person with a disability. Common web assistive technologies include modified mice and keyboards, screen readers and screen magnifiers.
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Some secondary pages use modal dialogues instead of separate windows to display information. If you primarily navigate the web using a screen reader we recommend that you select Show secondary windows as pop-ups in the dialogue settings section of your Account settings. |
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Screen Reader Accessibility Features
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To increase the system font size, select the Account Settings option from the drop-down menu by clicking on your name in the upper right-hand corner of any LEARN page. This only increases the size of system fonts, it does not increase the size of icons and other graphics or user-created content.
Use an assistive technology or browser that supports zooming. This increases the magnification of the entire page. This option works well in Learning Environment, except for courses that use legacy navigation bars, as images and navigation panels resize well.
Use a screen magnifier to magnify a portion of the page, such as the area around the cursor. Many users like screen magnifiers because they preserve the layout of the page, but allow you to focus on the content in a specific area.
University of Waterloo Resources
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The University of Waterloo has an AccessAbility Office where all students with a disability should register.
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Funding for assistive technology is available for students with permanent disabilities that are OSAP eligible. The program is called the Bursary for Students with Disabilities and the Canada Student Grant for Services and Equipment for Persons with Permanent Disabilities. Another source of funding is the Assistive Devices Program.
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Persons with disabilities often use adaptive/assistive technologies that require an alternate format for the technology to access course content.
If you require an alternate format to access LEARN content to lessen the impact of your disability, please register with AccessAbility Services. Contact AccessAbility Services at access@uwaterloo.ca for more information.
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