Find accessible assignment items for your students

• Most answer types for publisher items provided in the Item Library are screen reader and keyboard accessible. For a list of accessible answer types, see the next section about searching for accessible items in the Item Library.
• Certain elements in some items may be inaccessible to some students. If you or your students notice that accessibility could be improved on an assignment item that should support accessibility, please report the issue using the Contact the Publisher feature.

1. Open the Item Library.
   As you create or edit an assignment, select the   Items page, where you can assign items as you create or edit an assignment. To browse the Item Library, select Instructor Tools then Item Library.
2. Select a Book/source and Chapter.
3. Select Accessible Items.

For more about finding items in the Item Library, see Search the Item Library.

Below are some tips for checking that your Mastering assignments are accessible.

• Watch a video: Accessibility tips & tricks in Mastering
• Contact your school’s Accessibility Office or Disability Services — When available, this department may have services that can help support you as well as to provide individual support for students.
• Accessible images — For students with vision impairment, check whether images have appropriate alt text descriptions. (Alt text image descriptions can be read aloud by screen readers.) To see if such descriptions appear, hover over images in Mastering on your computer.
• Accessible video content — For students with vision or hearing impairment, check whether any video content includes captions, a transcript, or audio description.
• Adjust Mastering assignment scores and settings by student. — To better accommodate some students, you can adjust scores and settings for an assignment by student. For example, you may want to exempt one or more students from an assignment, extend an assignment due date, reset an assignment, or other.
• Accessibility when editing or creating items — If you use the Simple Editor to edit publisher items or to create your own items, all Simple Editor answer types can be used to create accessible content. Follow best practices for making your content accessible. The WebAIM.org site provides information about writing alt text for images, making audio or video accessible, checking color contrast ratio, and more

• Accessibility tips & tricks in Mastering
• Accessibility example: Navigate to Course Home
• Accessibility example: Navigate to an Assignment

General accessibility

• Mastering interface — Works with all common screen magnifiers and is contrast optimized for vision-impaired access to most features
• Navigation — Enhanced visual focus for active elements
• Answer responses — Feedback such as Correct and Try Again can be read by a screen reader.

Accessible from Mastering courses

• eTextbook — When available for your course, the eTextbook is screen reader and keyboard accessible. Some content may not yet be accessible. An audiobook is provided for most eTextbooks.
• Dynamic Study Modules — When available for your course, the content in Dynamic Study Modules is usually accessible. Alt text image descriptions are provided.