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Accessibility and Rapid e-Learning Development Tools Tim Springer Brenda Roukey

Accessibility and Rapid e-Learning Development Tools Tim Springer Brenda Roukey. About SSB BART Group. Unmatched Experience Accessibility Focus Implementation-Oriented Solutions Solutions That Reduce Legal Risk Organizational Stability and Continuity

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Accessibility and Rapid e-Learning Development Tools Tim Springer Brenda Roukey

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  1. Accessibility and Rapid e-Learning Development Tools Tim Springer Brenda Roukey

  2. About SSB BART Group • Unmatched Experience • Accessibility Focus • Implementation-Oriented Solutions • Solutions That Reduce Legal Risk • Organizational Stability and Continuity • Knowledge That Is Up-to-Date, All the Time • Published and Peer Review Auditing Methodology • Fourteen hundred organizations(1445) • Fifteen hundred individual accessibility best practices (1595) • Twenty-two core technology platforms (22) • Fifty-five thousand audits (55,930) • One hundred fifty million accessibility violations (152,351,725) • Three hundred sixty-six thousand human validated accessibility violations (366,096)

  3. Agenda • Introduction • E-Learning Overview • Common E-Learning Accessibility Issues • Accessibility Issues • Best Practices • Tips for Instructional Designers

  4. Introduction Accessibility • Define Accessibility • The degree of which information, services, or the physical environment is available to people with different types of disabilities • Common Disability Types • Visual • Blindness • Low Vision • Auditory/Hearing • Deaf • Hard of hearing • Mobility • Speech • Cognitive • Disabilities that come with age

  5. Introduction Assistive Technology Define Assistive Technology (AT) • Devices, software or techniques used to assist individuals with disabilities in the use (or access) of something Examples • Screen readers & magnifiers (JAWS or ZoomText) • Voice recognition software (Dragon Naturally Speaking) • On-screen or other special keyboards • Wheelchairs • TTY and video relay devices • Canes • Refreshable Braille displays

  6. Introduction Laws, Standards, and Guidelines This presentation focuses on Section 508 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Levels A and AA. Note: The best practices address the core accessibility areas in Section 508 and WCAG 2 Level A & AA.

  7. E-Learning Overview What is e-Learning? Common e-Learning delivery environments • In-class, instructor led • Web-based, instructor led (synchronous and asynchronous) • Web-based, self-paced Common self-paced e-Learning formats and/or tool outputs • HTML • Multimedia • Adobe Flash • Documents (MS Office, PDF, etc.)

  8. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices What Has Changed? In 2012, we identified six common categories of accessibility issues found in testing for e-Learning* accessibility: • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Lists • Color and contrast • Non-text elements • Navigation and keyboard access • Quizzes/assessment questions *For this presentation, specifically web-based, self-paced

  9. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices In 2013 we did the same analysis for accessibility issues We broke it out by technology platform: • HTML • Multimedia • Adobe Flash • Documents • MS Word, MS PowerPoint, PDF, etc. What Has Changed?

  10. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices HTML HTML (or web pages) • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Ensure implicit headings are avoided • Non-text elements • Ensure background images that convey meaning have textual equivalents • Provide alternative text for images • Provide valid labels for form fields • Navigation and keyboard access (especially for Quizzes/assessment questions) • Ensure link text is meaningful when taken out of context

  11. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices Multimedia Multimedia • Non-text elements • Ensure visual multimedia content is sufficiently described in the audio portion of the multimedia • Ensure multimedia playback can be controlled • Navigation and keyboard access (especially for quizzes/assessment questions) • Ensure multimedia playback can be controlled

  12. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices Adobe Flash Adobe Flash • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Ensure the reading order of content is intuitive • Non-text elements • Ensure objects and graphics provide textual names, descriptions, role, state, and value • Provide synchronized equivalent for multimedia (audio and video) • Ensure audio does not play automatically on load • Navigation and keyboard access (especially for quizzes/assessment questions) • Ensure keyboard focus is provided to active elements and element functionality can be activated from the keyboard

  13. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices PDF PDF • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Ensure documents utilize the Title element • Ensure headings are denoted through structure and not implicitly • Ensure that document content is rendered in the proper order • Non-text elements • Provide alternative text for images • Navigation and keyboard access (especially for 1uizzes/assessment questions) • Ensure links are tagged structurally as links with a link OBJR tag

  14. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices Microsoft Office Word Microsoft Office Word • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Ensure that slide content is rendered in the proper order • Ensure list items are structured properly • Color and contrast • Ensure text and images of text provide sufficient color contrast • Non-text elements • Ensure images provide informative alternative text • Provide alternative text for images

  15. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices Microsoft Office PowerPoint Microsoft Office PowerPoint • Layout (including headings/titles, headers and footers, reading order) • Ensure headings are denoted through appropriate styles and not implicitly • Lists • Ensure list items are structured properly • Non-text elements • Provide alternative text for images • Ensure charts, graphs, and complex images provide an informative and visible alternative description • Navigation and keyboard access (especially for quizzes/assessment questions) • Ensure all actionable items are accessible via the keyboard

  16. E-Learning Accessibility Issues & Best Practices So - What Has Changed in a Year?

  17. Tips for Instructional Designers Include accessibility at the onset of the project Use instructional design Choose content creation tools with accessible output Develop requirements/design documents to include accessibility Use (or create) storyboards that will include accessibility best practices Conduct an accessibility check for your storyboards (pre-programming) Use automated tools AND conduct manual testing for your prototype/final product Recruit test users with disabilities AND test with ATs Tips

  18. Questions?

  19. Thank You Contact Us Tim Springer CEO tim.springer@ssbbartgroup.com Brenda Roukey Account Manager brenda.roukey@ssbbartgroup.com SSB Contact Information info@ssbbartgroup.com (800) 889-9659 Follow Us Twitter @SSBBARTGroup LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/company/ssb-bart-group Facebook www.facebook.com/ssbbartgroup Blog www.ssbbartgroup.com/blog

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