UDOIT- pronounced "You Do It" - stands for the Universal Design Online Inspection Tool.
UDOIT is a course level accessibility checker that scans online course content, identifies possible accessibility issues, and guides course designers and instructors in repairing those issues using inclusive design principles -all from within the UDOIT interface.
Watch this 3-minute video to get an overview of UDOIT's interface and what it can do for your courses:
What Does UDOIT Look for?
UDOIT scans the HTML of the following content items in a course: Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, Pages, Syllabus, and Module URLs.
It looks for the following possible accessibility issues and reports them as either errors or suggestions:
- Adjacent Links Found
- Alt Text For Images Within Links Should Not Be Empty
- Alternative Text Is More Than the Maximum Allowed Characters
- Alternative Text Should Not Be the Image Filename
- Avoid Using Color Alone for Emphasis
- Base Font Tag Should Not Be Used
- Blink Tag Should Not Be Used
- Captions Unavailable for Private YouTube Video
- Captions Unavailable for Unlisted YouTube Video
- Closed Captions Do Not Match Course Language
- Closed Captions Were Auto-Generated
- Decorative Images Should Have Empty Alternative Text
- Document Reading Direction
- Embedded Videos Must Have Captions
- Font Tag Should Not Be Used
- Heading Levels Should Not Be Skipped
- Headings Should Contain Text
- Image Description Is Too Long
- Image Elements Should Have an "alt" Attribute
- Images Should Not Have a Placeholder as Alternative Text
- Insufficient Text Color Contrast With the Background
- Links Should Contain Text
- Marquee Tag Should Not Be Used
- Multimedia Objects Should Have Text Equivalents
- No Closed Captions Found
- No Row or Column Scope Declarations Found in Table Headers
- No Table Headers Found
- Table Without Content Detected
- YouTube Captions Scanning Unavailable
- Avoid Using Styles for Document Structure
- Closed Captions Cannot Be Checked
- Connection to the Kaltura Service Failed
- Connection to the Vimeo Service Failed
- Connection to the YouTube Service Failed
- Content Length Should Not Exceed 3000 Words
- Embedded Content May Be Inaccessible on Mobile Devices
- External Content May Be Inaccessible
- Headings Should Be Used in Content
- Input Images Should Have an "alt" Attribute
- Link Has Nondescript Text
- Links To Multimedia Require Transcripts
- Links To Sound Files Need Transcripts
- Object Tag Detected
- "Pre" Elements Should Not Be Used for Tabular Data
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