Accessibility - 3 views

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  #1 David Jenkins on 10 Jul 14

   

  Here's a link to a web site, followed by a summary of comments by the author:
  Accessibility: Resources and considerations for on-line teaching with students with disabilities. See the following:
  
  http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/online-college-learning-for-students-with-disabilities/#five
  
  "Typical accommodations made by schools include:
  * Allowing extra time for tests
  * Providing captions or transcripts for all videos
  * Ensuring assignments and PDFs are readable by assistive technology software
  * Providing text descriptions for images and graphics so that assistive software can read the image
  * Offering textbooks in alternative formats: eTexts, audio, PDF, enlarged print, and Braille
  * Creating screen reader-compatible web content
  * Creating accessible Word documents
  * Allowing for a variety of interfaces: keyboard, mouse, voice
  Schools try to anticipate needs as much as possible. At Washington State University's Global Campus, Wendy Steele, multimedia designer and web accessibility coordinator, makes sure online courses emphasize:
  * Clear and consistent site navigation
  * Strong content organization
  * Alternative text for diagrams and graphics
  * Legible web fonts
  * Text that can be zoomed
  * Recognizable links
  * Good color contrast
  * Alternate ways to convey meaning besides using color
  * Properly tagged PDFs and documents
  * Site pages that can be navigated using only the keyboard
  * Transcripts for media
  * An option to use a built-in text-to-speech tool to read online course content"
  Margarita Barresi, author of web site from Online College Database

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here's a link to a web site, followed by a summary of comments by the author: <br /> Accessibility: Resources and considerations for on-line teaching with students with disabilities. See the following: <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/online-college-learning-for-students-with-disabilities/#five" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.onlinecollegesdatabase.org/online-college-learning-for-students-with-disabilities/#five</a> <br /> <br /> "Typical accommodations made by schools include: <br /> * Allowing extra time for tests <br /> * Providing captions or transcripts for all videos <br /> * Ensuring assignments and PDFs are readable by assistive technology software <br /> * Providing text descriptions for images and graphics so that assistive software can read the image <br /> * Offering textbooks in alternative formats: eTexts, audio, PDF, enlarged print, and Braille <br /> * Creating screen reader-compatible web content <br /> * Creating accessible Word documents <br /> * Allowing for a variety of interfaces: keyboard, mouse, voice <br /> Schools try to anticipate needs as much as possible. At Washington State University's Global Campus, Wendy Steele, multimedia designer and web accessibility coordinator, makes sure online courses emphasize: <br /> * Clear and consistent site navigation <br /> * Strong content organization <br /> * Alternative text for diagrams and graphics <br /> * Legible web fonts <br /> * Text that can be zoomed <br /> * Recognizable links <br /> * Good color contrast <br /> * Alternate ways to convey meaning besides using color <br /> * Properly tagged PDFs and documents <br /> * Site pages that can be navigated using only the keyboard <br /> * Transcripts for media <br /> * An option to use a built-in text-to-speech tool to read online course content" <br /> Margarita Barresi, author of web site from Online College Database</div>

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  #2 Phyllis Wright on 12 Jul 14

   

  David,
  This article lets me know how much more there is to learn in providing quality online education. Oh goodness, I may not live long enough to master this challenge after all!

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">David, <br /> This article lets me know how much more there is to learn in providing quality online education. Oh goodness, I may not live long enough to master this challenge after all!</div>

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