accessible content is better for everyone
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Accessible Content is Better for Everyone
What are some of the biggest challenges with accessibility?
Here is what educators and students had to say!
What Matters Most?
Lack of Knowledge
Lack of Time
Challenges with the LMS
Lack of Awareness
0 25 50
% of Respondents
Barriers to Accessibility
Assistive Technology
Captioning Videos
Using Flash
Accessibility of LMS
Keyboard Navigation
Accessible Powerpoint
Learner Challenges
0 25 50
% of Respondents
Biggest Knowledge Gaps
Captioning
Time on Tests
Alternative Content
Completing Work
Differentiated Materials
Posting to Discussions
Reading Attachments
0 25 50
% of Respondents
Biggest Challenges Facing Students
Defining Disability
Disability: permanent physical, mental or intellectual limitation of a person’s functional capacity that as a consequence of injury or illness existed at birth, has arisen since then or can be expected to arise.
Swedish Code of Statutes, Discrimination Act, SFS 2008:567
Students with some kind of disability in higher education
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Deaf/sign language speaking students 153 141 136 134 141 144Hard of hearing 203 218 203 193 208 196Dyslexia 3634 4370 4417 4939 5457 5945Learning difficulties 955 1427 1694 1943 2588 3070Mobility impairment 492 606 567 584 555 648Visual impairment 203 235 288 294 286 280Other conditions 330 335 486 529 642 780Total 5970 7332 7791 8616 9877 11063
Accessibility on the web
Web Accessibility Initiative – WAI
A web for everyone
“Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web.“
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
Assistive Technologies
What to use?
Spell check
Alternative keyboards and mouses
Use voice or eyes to control your computer
Screen magnifier
Ctrl +
Ctrl -
Screen reader or Text-to-speech
JAWS
Window-Eyes
NVDA
Many more…
This is NVDA logging in to Blackboard
Structured Content
How to structure a course
Word document
Check accessibility in Word
Content editor
PowerPoint
Publish in different ways.
Color, Audio, and Video
Contrast
White or yellow on dark
Red and blue Red and green
Dark on light
Blue and brown
Images
Recordings and sound
10-15 minutes
Texted videos
Transcription
Deaf or hearing impaired
Neurological processing
Non-native speakers
Noisy environment
Literacy and learning to read
All about captioning
Finding captioned content
Storyboard Create your video Upload to YouTube Wait 2-6 hours Log back in and select Video
Manager Click Edit and select Captions Click Automatic Captions
How to caption in YouTube
Universal Design
Universal Design
Accessibl
e LMS
Accessible Content
Success for
all stude
nts
Accessible Content Checklist
Images have ALT text and/or descriptions
Documents are properly structured
PDFs are tagged
Instructions are clear and succinct
Color choices have proper contrast
Videos are captioned