--- title: eLBX Online Day 27 - How to Design Accessible eLearning description: Instructional Designer Nancy Reyes shared essentials of designing accessible eLearning courses, including using alt tags and contrast checkers. image: https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/How%20to%20Design%20Accessible%20eLearning_Blog%20Featured%20Image%20800x500.png --- [![ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-white-text-1](https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/ELB-Learning_Logo_ColorRGB-white-text-1.png) ](https://elblearning.com/) ![How to Design Accessible Learning](https://blog.elblearning.com/hubfs/How%20to%20Design%20Accessible%20eLearning_Blog%20Featured%20Image%20800x500.png) # eLBX Online Day 27 - How to Design Accessible eLearning by [Stephanie Ivec](https://blog.elblearning.com/author/stephanie-ivec) | Apr 2, 2019 ![How to Design Accessible eLearning_Blog Header 800x350](https://blog.elblearning.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/How-to-Design-Accessible-eLearning_Blog-Header-800x350.png?width=800&height=350&name=How-to-Design-Accessible-eLearning_Blog-Header-800x350.png) Are you committed to delivering accessible eLearning, but not sure where or how to start? You might be surprised by how many others are in that same boat! #### In this webinar, Instructional Designer Nancy Reyes walked attendees through the essentials of designing accessible eLearning courses including: • Who is your audience? • What does “accessible” mean to your organization or client? • Navigation considerations • What is alt text and how should you use it? • Should you use images and when? • Transcripts and closed captioning During the webinar, Nancy showed examples from real courses of each of these accessible design elements. Her examples showed that just because a course is accessible, doesn’t mean it has to boring. Nancy recommended the [WebAIM Contrast Checker](https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/) for eLearning developers wanting to make sure their courses have enough color contrast to be accessible to learners with visual impairments. She also talked about how to write a [good alt tag](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/), the importance of tab order, and keeping links and hotspots big enough for learners using assistive devices instead of a computer mouse or their hands. Sign up for a free trial to get access to our templates built with accessibility in mind. 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