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The Digital Accessibility Remediation Team works with faculty and staff at UIS to ensure that documents, presentations, and multimedia are accessible. We are also available for short-term or long-term consultations with departments or units on campus.

DART Triage

Introduction/Rationale

As you make your digital content (documents, presentations, videos, audio files, etc.) accessible, you will find that some documents and videos are really easy to handle yourself. You will probably be able to complete some of them in just a few minutes, in fact. Others will be more difficult; you may have to look something up that the accessibility checker flags, or you may find that you’re trying to correct an accessibility error that doesn’t seem to be fixable. We encourage you to use the triage levels below as a general guideline to what most people will be comfortable making accessible on their own, what they may have some questions about, and what they may need somebody else to handle. 

Triage Levels

When you’re looking at documents or videos that you already have (as opposed to creating new documents), you might think about remediation in terms of “triage” levels:

  • Green: Low-level collaboration with DART. Simple fixes, including (but not limited to): 
    • adding alt text,
    • improving color contrast,
    • fixing headings,
    • using meaningful hyperlink text,
    • creating transcripts from captions,
    • creating transcripts for audio files
    • adding metadata (title, author, etc. in document properties) in documents and presentations,
    • adding public YouTube videos to Kaltura
    • editing captions for videos in Kaltura with one speaker
  • Yellow: Medium-level collaboration with DART. Moderate remediation, including (but not limited to): 
    • adding metadata in PDFs,
    • formatting simple tables,
    • ensuring compatibility with screen readers,
    • working with formulas/equations
      • Spreadsheets
      • Using Equatio for other mathematical/scientific contexts
    • writing alt text and/or image descriptions for complex or scientific diagrams/images/flowcharts
    • audio descriptions for all videos
    • editing captions for Kaltura videos with more than one speaker (interviews, etc.)
  • Red: High-level collaboration with DART. Complex remediation and/or materials that may need consultation before implementation, including (but not limited to): 
    • testing keyboard navigation,
    • handwritten notes,
    • graphic novels/comics,
    • scanned documents requiring OCR,
    • reformatting reading order and tag trees in PDFs,
    • formatting complex tables
    • fillable forms/surveys
    • maps
    • musical notation

As a general rule, simple fixes are relatively straightforward, and we encourage you to make these changes yourself whenever possible. Moderate and complex remediation may often need some extra support, which the Office of Digital Accessibility and its Digital Accessibility Remediation Team (DART) can provide through consultations or direct document remediation for courses/web content.