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Enhancing Accessibility with Digital Education Solutions

Explore strategies for creating inclusive educational resources through e-learning to promote independence and inclusion in learning environments. Learn about digital accessibility principles and tools to ensure content is reachable on various platforms.

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Enhancing Accessibility with Digital Education Solutions

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  1. Creating accessible educational materials through e-learning Lars Ballieu Christensen Advisor, Ph.D., M.Sc. Tanja Stevns Director, Special Education Teacher

  2. Our agenda Independence and self-sufficiency Inclusion in education and vocation • Long-term • Inclusive • Open • Knowledge

  3. Agenda • Accessibility and the need for accessible material • The challenge of getting the word out • The challenge of creating accessible e-learning • Demo

  4. What is digital accessibility? A set of universally accepted design principles with the aim to ensure that digital contents can be accessed by as many people as possible, from as many technological platforms as possible, and in as many different situations as possible Christensen & Stevns, HCII 2015

  5. Designing for Alternate Media Specific Design Dyslexic, Low Vision, Blind,… Universal Design Active language, short sentences, illustrations, holistic, … Digital Accessibility Use tech correctly, tag structure, provide alternatives, set language, …

  6. What is an accessible document? • Authored in accordance with appropriate accessibility guidelines • Authoring tools have been used as intended • Features of the authoring tools have not been abused • Prerequisite for access with assistive technology • Prerequisite for automated transformation into some alternate formats

  7. Automated transformations • Many processes can be automated • Conversion of inaccessible and tricky documents and presentations • Limited semantics support • Single-language documents • Some processes require accessible source documents • Navigation • Indexing, bookshelves, libraries • Media overlays • Sophisticated contents (math, multilingual)

  8. The challenge • Many different types of users • People with disabilities • Faculty, staff, relatives • Mainstream users • Many different geographies • How do we raise awareness and competence levels?

  9. The obvious solution

  10. Creating accessible e-learning Kick-off Requirement specification Vendor selection Manuscript Expected deadline Current deadline Jan 2017 Jul 2017 Jan 2018

  11. Core requirements • Professional instructional designers • Divided into independent modules • Interactive, not ”talking PowerPoint” • WCAG 2.0 AA compliant • Compatible with LMSs (SCORM) • Versioned for Europe and the US • Ownership of source files

  12. Accessibility challenges • Articulate Storyline • Vendor suggestion • Claims full WCAG AA compliance • Initial accessibility test • In practice • Limitations in terms of quiz types • Massive post-production required • Updates to api.min.js, esp. ARIA • No support for mobile devices

  13. Accessible e-learning course Course Intro SensusAccess Intro Advanced Special Simple MP3 Creating accessible material Braille Improving accessibility DAISY Simple e-books Advanced e-books

  14. Conclusions • An accessible e-learning course • E-learning course will be a great resource for our users • Be cautious • of vendor claims • of accessibility support claims/VPATs • Insist on accessibility • Test, test, test • Have realistic deadlines

  15. Example

  16. Questions; comments ?!

  17. What’s inside Text-to-Braille E-book conversion Text-to-Speech OCR Spam MS Office DAISY Pipeline SaveAsDAISY Accessible docs Mail/Web access Mail/Web delivery .doc, .docx .ppt, .pptx .htm, .html .xml .txt, .asc .rtf .pdf (all types) .epub, .mobi .tif, .gif, .bmp, .jpeg .jpg, .j2k, .jp2, .jpx .pcx, .dcx, .PNG .djv MP3 encoding DAISY Braille Tagged PDF MP3 Daisy Math E-books English Spanish French Braille artwork Greek Portuguese German Norwegian Italian Dutch Danish Swedish Icelandic Romanian Finnish Bulgarian Russian Arabic Czech Hungarian Lithuanian Slovenian Polish Inuit Slovak Taiwanese Welsh Cantonese Korean Mandarin Japanese

  18. Estimate: Some 50-60% of all document can be handled by SensusAccess Source: Jayme Johnson, High Tech Center Training Unit, California Community Colleges

  19. SensusAccess e-learning

  20. Accessibility Rules • Use authoring tools as intended • Do not abuse tools In practice • Metadata are defined (title, author) • Structural elements are tagged • Content and content alternatives are authored correct (alt text, tables, MathType) • The master language is set and language changes are marked

  21. Reference info • www.sensusaccess.com • www.sensuslibrary.com • Readium (free), Adobe Digital Editions (free) • E-book reader for Windows, Mac • Supports media overlay • Menestrello (free) • E-book reader for iOS/Android • Support media overlay • VI Reader (free) • E-book reader for low vision, dyslexia • iOS, Android

  22. SensusAccess and Braille • Three settings: • Braille code • Contraction level • Output format • Principles of output formats in general • Native character set of rendering device • Unicode • PEF • How to read formatting and PEF • format2929p, pef4025pd

  23. Also an email service … Audio american@ britspeech@ deutsch@ parlefrancais@ daisy@ daisymath@ Braille banagrade1@ banagrade2@ sixdot@ kurzschrift@ E-books epub@ epub3@ mobi@ Conversion convert@sensusaccess.com Available on most platforms Efficient for integration

  24. Note! • File names! • Web interface: No limitations • Email interface: Use short names and no national characters

  25. Training Courses and Workshops • SensusAccess overview (complementary) • SensusAccess intro workshop • Creating accessible documents • Creating e-books with SensusAccess • Creating structured audio books with SensusAccess • Producing Braille with SensusAccess • Producing math material with SensusAccess

  26. Reference info • www.sensusaccess.com • www.sensuslibrary.com • Readium (free) • E-book reader for Windows, Mac • Supports media overlay • Menestrello (free) • E-book reader for iOS/Android • Support media overlay • VI Reader (free) • E-book reader for low vision, dyslexia • iOS, Android

  27. Contact information Lars Ballieu Christensen • Mail: lars@sensus.dk • Phone: +45 40 32 68 23 Tanja Stevns • Mail: tanja@sensus.dk • Phone: +45 23 24 06 72 www.sensusaccess.com

  28. Questions; comments ?!

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