The YesLMS Accessibility Widget allows many accessibility adaptations to be made to allow the content to be accessed in a way suitable to the needs of the user. The widget allows for many adaptations beyond text size and color contrast changes.
Content Adaptations
Content Adaptations allow the page content to be altered to meet user needs. These adaptations will always be on each time YesLMS is visited until turned off.
Screen Reader
The Screen Reader Adaptation allows users to click on blocks of text and have it read to them.
Please note: the Screen Reader adaptation is not to be confused with standard screen readers such as JAWS, NVDA or VoiceOver. The Screen Reader adaptation does not provide the same functionality as the aforementioned screen readers.
Plain Text
The Plain Text adaptation simplifies the text that is clicked on.
ADHD Helper
The ADHD Helper adaptation changes the font of all text and makes the first few letters of each word bold.
Contrast
The Contrast adaptation allows the contrast of the page to be changed between black and white, black and yellow and blue and yellow.
Saturation
The Saturation adaptation changes images and colors from grayscale to dark colors to bright colors.
Text Size
The Text Size adaptation increases the text size two times, large and extra-large.
Text Align
The Text Align adaptation changes the text alignment between right aligned, center and justified.
Letter Spacing
The Letter Spacing adaptation allows the space between letters to be increased from wide to extra wide.
Line Height
The Line Height adaptation allows line height to be increased two times.
Cursor
The Cursor adaptation allows the cursor to be made very large and very large and black. The final option creates a reading mask so that only about a fourth of the horizontal screen is clearly visible while the rest is grayed out.
Large Tooltips
The Large Tooltips adaptation makes the tooltips appear in a large font.
Dyslexia Helper
The Dyslexia Helper adaptation changes the font to OpenDyslexic3 with an option for Legible which changes the font back to what it was but slightly large and taller.
Hide Images
The Hide Images adaptation removes all images from the page.
Highlight Links and Buttons
The Highlight Links and Buttons adaptation adds a dark yellow border around all links and buttons with a light-yellow background.
Highlight Titles
The Highlight Titles adaptation adds a dark green border around all headings with a light-green background.
Navigation
Page Content
Selecting Page Content will show all Headings, Landmarks and Links. Any of the listed items can be navigated to by selecting the arrow to the right.
Shortcuts
Shortcuts allow any of the Content Adaptions to be accessed by a custom keystroke combination. For example, toggling on Change Contrast and clicking the key combination listed on the right allows for a custom shortcut to be used to change the contrast. Be sure to select Save Shortcuts. Be sure that any key combination chosen is not already in use on your computer.
Accessibility Profiles
Accessibility Profiles turn on certain Content Adaptions according to the profile selected. For example, the ADHD profile turns on the ADHD Helper and the reading mask cursor.
The option to add a custom profile is given. Select Add Custom Profile, give it a name, select the desired Content Adaptions and select Save. This profile will be available each time you login to YesLMS.
Dictionary
The dictionary provides a helpful place to look up definitions.
Settings
The settings section allows the page language to be changed. Please note that this changes the language for all the controls, buttons, links, etc., to be changed but not course content.
The settings section also provides a way to change the Accessibility Widget position to the left or right side of the screen.
Reset Adaptations
The final option is the Reset Adaptations button which reset all Content Adaptations selected back to default.