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My School Day Online: A Fully Accessible Platform for Website Development

My School Day Online: A Fully Accessible Platform for Website Development. Matt Kaplowitz, Bridge Multimedia Wendy Sapp, Ph.D., Visual Impairment Educational Services.

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My School Day Online: A Fully Accessible Platform for Website Development

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  1. My School Day Online:A Fully Accessible Platform for Website Development Matt Kaplowitz, Bridge Multimedia Wendy Sapp, Ph.D., Visual Impairment Educational Services Funded in part by the National Center for Technology Innovation, American Institutes for Research, Office of Special Education Programs, and US Department of Education

  2. What is the My School Day Online Scheduler? • Fully 508(c) and W3C compliant web-based program • Part of the “Bridge Builder” suite of accessible website management tools • Currently includes • Calendar • Tasks • Schedule

  3. “If it was a person I would hug it!” 12th grade student with low vision after using My School Day Online

  4. Student Participants • 12 students (9-12th grade) • All are legally blind • 10 are totally blind and use JAWS screen reader software to access computer • 2 have low vision and use vision to access computer

  5. My School Day Online vs. Outlook

  6. My School Day Online vs. Outlook • Percentage of Items Attempted* t=2.91, p<.05, two-tailed, df=7 • Percentage of Items Completed Correctly* t=2.00, p<.05, one-tailed, df=7 • Percentage of Items Completed Independently* t=2.13, p<.05, one-tailed, df=7 * Differences in performance between MSDO and Outlook were statistically significant

  7. “I didn’t get lost. It was so easy to navigate, I couldn’t get lost!”

  8. “It was easy for me to find stuff and that’s really saying something.”

  9. “Everything was sticking out on the page asking you to click on it.”

  10. Teacher Participants • 8 teachers of students with visual impairments • 3 with low vision • 1 blind • 4 typically sighted

  11. Teacher Performance using My School Day Online

  12. “…most of it was very easy to figure it out. You didn’t have to have a list of instructions.” -Response from a teacher

  13. Improvements Underway • Improve layout of links • Modify calendar to improve recognition of dates • Increase flexibility in creating student schedules • Add new features requested by students and teachers

  14. Next Steps • Implement suggestions for improving usability of current features • Implement new features suggested by teachers and students • Conduct additional field testing with large population including additional disability groups

  15. Matt Kaplowitz & Wendy Sapp would like to thank the National Center for Technology Innovation, American Institutes of Research Office of Special Education Projects, and the US Department of Education, for supporting this product development and research.

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