Brightspace Accessibility

Brightspace Accessibility
Quick Start Guide

Use Brightspace features and tools to increase the accessibility of your content and work to ensure an inclusive and equitable experience for all learners.

Best practices to maximize Brightspace accessibility:

Use templates

Brightspace templates include accessible colour, structure, and interactive elements. Choose an appropriate template in the Select a Document Template menu.

Brightspace template menu

Write descriptive linked text

Use linked text not bare URLs. Write a description of the link destination, highlight the relevant text, and use the Insert Quicklink button to add a link.

Use tools for structure

Use built-in tools for headings, lists, and tables.

Brightspace editor text format menu

Include alternative text

Add descriptions to the Alternative Text field of images that present information.


Mark decorative images using This image is decorative.

Caption and transcribe media

Ensure videos have accurate closed captions and include transcripts of audio recordings.

Run the Accessibility Checker

Use the Accessibility Checker to flag accessibility issues.
Brightspace accessibility checker highlighted on toolbar

Moving forward…

Focus on creation and revision, not remediation. The next time you create a page or update an existing one, use the practices in this guide. Don’t focus on going back and fixing every page you have. Focus on making your new content more inclusive and accessible.

Move to the next page for step-by-step guides to making accessible Brightspace content.

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Accessibility Handbook for Teaching and Learning Copyright © 2023 by Briana Fraser and Luke McKnight is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.