Accessibility Makeover in E-Learning #353: Challenge | Recap
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This week, your challenge is to rework one or more slides to make them more accessible. To help others ...
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I liked your solution, Cathy. The only problem that I had, like Ron were the character states. Getting people with disabilities to review your courses is a great idea!
Thank you, Linda. I was really happy when my organization provided myself and a few others on my team with JAWS in order to test our products, but still find it helpful to have true JAWS users review what we create. A really interesting twist regarding having access to JAWS has also been the ability to review vendor products during their beta work...having the ability to really get kinks out before releasing learning assets that could potentially exclude some learners is gold to me because it means no one is left out.
Anyway...I need to find time to work on those states. Still want to get a screencast as well for the "under the hood" stuff that made the interaction and layers work.
Anyway...I need to find time to work on those states. Still want to get a screencast as well for the "under the hood" stuff that made the interaction and layers work.
- Okay, states are fixed. The one thing I realized I had done before regarding the states was that I kept asking myself, "well, what if a person doesn't select the next level to learn what it is?" Then that won't hide the previous state. For instance, if I press Enter on character level 1 and then choose not to press enter on character level 2, but choose to press enter on character level 3, then the character level 1 state is also still selected. But... for now, that's the way it is set up. If there is another way/trigger/variable to negate this issue, please let me know.
Also, and yet another question I had asked myself when I initially created this slide...Will sighted learners be using their tab key to navigate, or will learners who are blind be the ones using tab to navigate?- Remember Cathy, that not only blind people navigate a course using their keyboard. People with some physical disabilities will use their keyboard over a mouse.
- It's a learning or remembering curve, for me. I know this, but ensuring that I've covered as many disabilities as possible in the design takes a little more memory capacity. Funny thing, as I type this, I'm thinking about creating some sort of checklist that isn't about technical aspects of designing, but about the human aspects...like something that lists out the varying ways in which learners might access the learning asset. Thanks, Linda!