accessibility and lms, and how people with disabilities use technology
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Poll Everywhere
• https://www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls
Types of Accessibility / Disability
• Vision
• Auditory
• Cognitive
• MobilityGraphic from Deque Systems
http://www.deque.com
Moodle Demo with Jaws• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDGDnLh5QVA&t=01m
39s
ZoomText
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqLo_OmpFmU#t=90
Video with Accessible Controls
• http://learn.neilsquire.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=21778
Video with Captions
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-NG778mkY#t=93
Literacy
• http://learn.neilsquire.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=21779
Dragon Naturally Speaking
• Dragon Naturally Speaking Demo (C2)• https://
www.atomiclearning.com/k12/dragon-naturally-speaking-13-training
Common LMS issues
• Sheer complexity (less is more)• Navigation (lack of headings, simple links vs
unordered lists)• Alternate Text to pictures (alt=“”)• Multiple images/icons/buttons/links with
same text description• VPAT – Voluntary Product Accessibility
Template
Simple Accessibility Tests
• Clean HTML – <h1> – <alt="">– Click here?
• “Skip To” links• Tab through Page• Highlight Page• Captcha• Firefox plugins – Fangs, Wave
Firefox plugins – Fangs, Wave
• Washington Accessibility Examples • http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing
/AU/
• Wave Toolbar (Firefox)• Fangs
What can you do: Open Source
• Hack locally• Contribute fixes• Submit Bug Reports• Collaborate with Working Groups
Present content in multiple ways
All non-text content should be paired with a text alternative. In practice, this means:• ‘Alt tags’ for images written to clearly describe
what the image depicts• Videos with captions describing the audio
track• Audio with a text transcript• Form inputs labeled
Videos and other visual multimedia content such as infographics, GIFs, and animations should be paired with a description. For example:• A text description of the content, for screen
readers• An audio description
Present content in multiple ways
Organize, structure, & make content clear
Screen readers read the markup, not the page presented visually in the web browser.• Don’t just bold titles and headers—use ‘styles’ for
headings: H1, H2, H3, H4.• Don’t use hyphens for lists—use the bulleted or
numbered list styles.• Don’t use tables to style content—but do use them if
you are presenting an actual table of data.• Don’t use colored or highlighted text to make
passages stand out—use bold for importance, italic for emphasis, and blockquote for call-outs or quotes.
Organize, structure, & make content clear
• Avoid using color on its own to distinguish or organize content, as color-blind users might have difficulty discerning differences.
• Ensure sufficient contrast—dark and light—between visual elements.
Make content and navigation consistent
• Consistent Navigation / menus• Create a “first visit” tour or “Welcome Course”
• https://prezi.com/-smyfoyvagiz/accessibility-and-google/
University of Guelph
• Common LMS Accessibility Issues and Tips• https://
www.uoguelph.ca/tss/projects/LMSaccessibilitytips.pdf
BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit
• http://opentextbc.ca/accessibilitytoolkit/
Moodle Screen Reader
• http://learn.neilsquire.ca/mod/page/view.php?id=21881
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