helping moodle users with print disabilities

61
Helping Moodle users with print disabilities Dominik Lukeš, Dyslexia Action @techczech

Upload: dominik-lukes

Post on 22-Apr-2015

4.012 views

Category:

Education


2 download

DESCRIPTION

Presentation delivered on 4 April 2012 at MoodleMoot 2012 in Dublin.

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Helping Moodle users with print disabilitiesDominik Lukeš, Dyslexia Action @techczech

Page 2: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Load2Learn online catalogue of curriculum resources

for print disabled learners

provides access to digital books and images that can be used by learners with their own technology

being developed by Dyslexia Action and RNIB, funded by DfE

Page 3: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Problem: Print disability“A print-disabled person is anyone for whom a visual, cognitive or physical disability hinders the ability to read print. This includes all visual impairments, dyslexia, and any physical disabilities that prevent the handling of a physical copy of a print publication.”

CLA License,

http://www.cla.co.uk/data/pdfs/print_disability/cla_guidelines_for_the_pdl_aug10.pdf

Page 4: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Print Disability: Perception Issues Cannot see text

Can only see text at a certain size

Cannot see certain colours, colour combinations

Prefers certain contrast

Page 5: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Print Disability: Issues with Processing Text Difficulties decoding written word

Difficulties finding information in large chunks of text

Needs special formatting (e.g. Sans Serif, not-justified, no all caps, no underline, no italics)

Page 6: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Print Disability: Physical Difficulties Can only use the keyboard

Can only use a pointing device

Can only use voice input

Page 7: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Key legal provisions Make an accessible copy of a document

for a print disabled person under the CLA PD Licence

Accessible document: large print, electronic copy, audio version (MP3), Braille

Unless a suitable commercial alternative exists

Page 8: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Conversation reminder

Please tweet any questions, comments

@techczech

Page 9: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution: Making text accessible Structured documents with easy

navigation (Word, PDF) Modification of font colour, font type, font

size, background colour (PDF, Word) Audio books Text-to-speech: PDF, Wordtalk, Balbolka,

voices, screen reader Audio and text linked (DAISY, WordTalk)

Page 10: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 1: Structured documents All sections have titles marked with

Heading styles Word documents, PDFs, Web Pages

Page 11: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 2: Text and document modification Change font size proportionally Change font colours and background

colours

Page 12: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 3: Audio books and other audio

Page 13: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Evidence for Audio Books Boys found audio-reading enjoyable and

their self-confidence as readers improved. ‘a marked reduction in the quantity of errors

… when reading independently’ The boys found audio reading was

relatively effortless yet they perceived that they were reading books appropriate to their age and could read ‘hard words’ like their peers (Byrom, 1998, p.5)

Page 14: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Audio as spectacles ‘some children require spectacles to enable them to read a book, others may require an audio tape to enable them to read the same book’ (Byrom, 1998, p. 6)

‘Today some of these people with dyslexia even regard the computer as their equivalent to the glasses of the weak-sighted’. (Tank & Frederikson, 2007, p.947)

Page 15: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Audio books at home parents reported that audio-books

appeared to have ‘a positive influence in reducing emotional– behavioural problems’

and that the use of audio-books within the home environment appeared to reduce their child’s sense of frustration and distractibility attributed to greater ease in studying. (Milani et al, 2003, p.93)

Page 16: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 4: Text to speech Synthetic voice (Anna, Jess, Brian) Reader software (Balabolka, WordTalk)

Page 17: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Evidence for text to speechStudents took their SQA standard grade examinations in ‘Accessible PDF’ format.

Staff praised: “independence offered by the electronic format”

Students “all found them easier to use than a scribe”

“mean score was 8.93 compared with 8.00 for scribes” (Nisbet et al, 2005, p.1)

Page 18: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

More evidence for text to speech Text to speech can ‘relieve the burden

of decoding for struggling readers, allowing them to focus on comprehension’ (Wise, Ring, and Olson, 2000).

students ‘could double or triple the time that they could sustain reading’ (Elkind et al, 1996, p.160).

Page 19: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 5: Text and audio linked by DAISY Structured document linking audio and text Text is highlighted in sync with audio

Page 20: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Solution 5: Speech recognition

Page 21: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Audio note taking ‘By using the note tool, they engaged in new literacy practices by envisioning new ways to access their thought processes to engage in spontaneous, instantaneous response to the e-books’ (Larson, 2009, p. 256)

Page 22: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Evidence for DAISY

‘Research confirms that highlighting text as it is spoken can help learners pay attention and remember more’ (cited in Silver-Pacuilla and Fleischman, 2006, p. 84)

Page 23: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

DAISY for Dyslexia DAISY is used by people with dyslexia in

Denmark and other countries.

‘Today some of these people with dyslexia even regard the computer as their equivalent to the glasses of the weak-sighted’. (Tank & Frederikson, 2007, p.947)

Page 24: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Conversation reminder

Please tweet any questions, comments

@techczech

Page 25: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

What it means for MoodlePresent information in accessible formats. Think about:

Document creation

Course page formatting

User training

Page 26: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Presenting information on Moodle Make sure uploaded documents are

accessible. I.e. can be converted into multiple formats

Make your PDFs accessible

Consider using Xerte for interactive content

Train users how to access information

Page 27: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Moodle Course Page Formatting Use proper structure – H1 for title, H2 for

topic headings, H3 – H5 for subheadings

Don’t use Headings for anything that is not a section title (e.g. not <h2>Welcome!</h2>)

Chunk information into small sections

Provide clickable table of contents

Page 28: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

User training: Mini curriculum Structured documents (save yourself

time and use headings styles!!!!!)

Modification of font size, colour (PDF, Word)

Keyboard shortcuts

Text to speech: how to create MP3 files from documents with software and voices

Page 29: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Tools for Print Accessibility Structured word processing and

accessible PDFs

Portable Apps (MyStudyBar)

Text to speech

Balabolka

WordTalk

Amis

Page 30: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Why Xerte Fully keyboard navigable

Easy online collaboration on editing

Many ways to embed

Page 31: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Keyboard Shortcuts

Do you know how to type keyboard shortcuts correctly?

How many keyboard shortcuts do you know?

Page 32: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Text size

Ctrl - Shift - < or >

Ctrl - [ or ]

Styles

Ctrl - Alt - 1, 2, 3

Alt - Shift - arrow keys

Ctrl - PgUp / PgDn

Page 33: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Key new terms to remember

Print disability: New term covering existing disabilities and reflected in copyright regulation.

Accessible documents: Can be modified to suit learners’ needs and can be converted into alternative formats.

Page 34: Helping moodle users with print disabilities

Where to go next?

Information forthcoming. Go to http://trainingpilot.load2learn.com to register for updates.

Tweet @techczech for questions