Posts in RPH Services
September 2025 Webinar: How to Build Accessibility Planning into Your Health Education Training Workflow

RPH Consulting has a webinar collaboration with SOPHE on September 17, 2025.

Designing accessible health education training content has wide-ranging individual and organizational-level benefits. These include compliance with funder and legal requirements, reaching a broader learning audience, creating a better user experience, and shifting from an individual accommodation-based framework to designing for all learners. Unfortunately, accessibility planning is often an afterthought in our workforce development efforts. It is a quick final review to confirm we have video captions or transcripts. It is an item to be checked off before our training or course launches.

Join the webinar and let’s learn together how to change that!

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RPH Presentation, RPH ServicesLeah RomanPublic health, Health education, Training, accessibility, CHESComment
Know Better, Do Better. How I Audit My Own E-learning Materials.

It can be overwhelming to go back and review your own webpages, online courses, toolkits, and handouts. The more we learn and get better, the more we realize our mistakes in previous learning products.

But it’s important to model, “Know Better, Do Better.”

I want that for myself and I want that for my clients. No judgement. Just improvement.

Today, I’m sharing the process I used to audit and improve a graphic on my website that compares the roles and responsibilities of e-learning instructional designers and developers.

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Educational, RPH ServicesLeah Romane-Learning, Instructional Design, AuditComment
Why I Removed GIFs From My E-Learning Instructional Design Portfolio

Earlier this year, I conducted an accessibility audit on my own instructional design portfolio. I initially created the online content a few years ago, and like many people, I thought the inclusion of Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)s would be fun and engaging for visitors.

However, when I revisited the portfolio with an accessibility lens, I had multiple concerns about the GIFs and removed them. Visit today’s post to learn why!

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RPH Services, EducationalLeah RomanPublic health, e-Learning, Instructional Design, Portfolio, accessibilityComment
The Tools You’ll Find on My Desk for an Instructional Design Accessibility Audit

I recently completed an instructional design accessibility audit for one of my clients. This type of audit assesses how well online educational resources line up with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, which makes content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities.

As I dove into the project, I laughed at the growing pile of reference tools and documents on my desk. So, I thought it would be fun to share my “Go To” resources!

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RPH ServicesLeah Romanaccessibility, Instructional Design, e-Learning, Public healthComment