Stepwise Approach to Accessible MOOC

DevelopmentE.A. Draffana,, Mike Walda, Kate Dickensa, Gottfried Zimmermannb, Sebastian Kelleb,

Klaus Miesenbergerc and Andrea Petzc

a University of Southampton (UK)

b Stuttgart Media University (Germany)cUniversity of Linz (Austria)

Presentation for AAATE 2015

MOOC’s for Accessibility Partnership

A pan-European project providing education on accessible design.

Collaboration• Google Drive• Google Docs• Google Hangout• Email

• WordPress• Text messages• Skype• Face to Face

Background• Everything must be accessible and easy to

use• Everything must be free and open.• Students of the partner institutions must be

able to participate• Students should be able to gain formal

credit• Scalability• Visibility and Outreach

• Content remains available once MOOC has been delivered Photo by US Food and Drug

Administration via flickr Creative Commons.

Methodology

Stepwise Approach

Each week is made up of activities broken down into small steps representing the type

of content

Each step is timed, checked for accessibility with named

author

Copyright and legal requirements signed

off.

A record of all the steps is kept for reference – useful when advising

about ease of access for all stakeholders

Matrix

Discussion• What is the best way to achieve the learning

objective?• Why are you using a particular type of multimedia?• What are the barriers to its use? • Do all learners need to use it?• Do certain alternatives impact on learning

outcomes?• What are the alternatives on offer?• Can they be achieved and allow for personalisation?

Free steps to accessibility?• Structured Word document (using heading and styles e.g.

Microsoft Accessibility Checker)

• Accessible ebook checker – preferably ePub3 format

• Accessible web content - Web2Access testing online tools for eLearning.

• Accessible PDFs – Simple guide to Creating Accessible PDFs – Try the free checker PAVE

• Maths Notation – STEMReader – copy and paste MathML into web based app or use with Word as a built in plug in and in the coming months with ATbar as a browser based option.

Impact and Conclusion• Wide range of expertise – learning from each other and

spreading this out to stakeholders

• Crossing boundaries between accessibility and usability• Opening the subject of digital accessibility out beyond

the gatekeepersThank you