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Accessibility Aspects of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability Specification

Sheffield Hallam University, participating in CETIS. Accessibility Aspects of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability Specification. Andy Heath a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk. A short overview of the issues and current work. Plan. CETIS Accessibility What’s going on with QTI. CETIS.

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Accessibility Aspects of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability Specification

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  1. Sheffield Hallam University, participating in CETIS Accessibility Aspects of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability Specification Andy Heath a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk . A short overview of the issues and current work

  2. Plan • CETIS • Accessibility • What’s going on with QTI a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  3. CETIS • Centre for EducationalTechnology Interoperability Standards in UK. • Mediates between Standards Activity and UK Higher and Further Education - Represents, disseminates, generates activity • CETIS Special Interest Groups – QTI, Content Packaging, Accessibility, Learner Information Profiles, Meta-data • I monitor and participate in all groups, notably QTI and Accessibility where I mediate between a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  4. Accessibility .. • What is “Accessibility” about (a working definition for our concern here) • (Assessment) in E-Learning systems that do not exclude people with disabilities • 1980 UN Estimate 500 million people • 1 in 10 Americans, 1 in 10 Europeans • Hearing impaired, vision impaired, physical disability … • We all get older a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  5. IMS Accessibility • US - Section 508 Rehabilitation Amendments Act 1998 in force. • UK – Special Educational Needs Disability Bill • Similar in Australia • Content and tools must be accessible to all • Started Feb 2001 • Scope May 2001 • First Publicly Visible Output August 2001 • Some results and detail of further work. a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  6. IMS Accessibility • US. National Centre for Accessible Media (NCAM) • Adaptive Technology Research Centre (Toronto) • ETS • Open University UK. • Blackboard • CETIS • DEYTA (Australia) • Industry Canada • IBM a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  7. IMS Accessibility GOALS: • Accessibility built in to the specs • Earlier the better • Need to predict future work (research vs practice) • Guidelines for implementation, tools, user-agents, authors • Usability testing a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  8. IMS Accessibility • Guidelines for • General Accessibility • Alternative media delivery and modalities • Asynch and Synch Comm & Collab tools • Interactive Elements • Testing and Evaluation (including QTI best practices) • Authoring tools a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  9. IMS Accessibility • Specific work underway • Media Meta-data recommendations • Learner Information Profile Schema • Recommendations to Question and Test Group. • Slightly Longer Time Scale (underway) • Implementation Guide(lines) a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  10. Accessibility issues Flagging and accomodations Accessibility and QTI • Item (simplified) • Presentation • Response processing • Selection • Scoring • Delivery Process (implementations and systems) Interface/media Equivalence BSI British Standards Institute a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  11. Generate/customise presentation at run-time What the spec already does well • Separates Content and Presentation • Separate rendering and response information • <flow> • <flow_mat> • <flow_label> • <matemtext> a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  12. Example from 1.1 specification What QTI does well already Device specific rendering control and flexibility a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  13. Mechanisms • Some important tenets: • Stylesheets are a good thing • Users can have different stylesheets • For different times and different devices • One input source CAN supply output for different devices a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  14. Renderings - inline <material><mattext>Agree</mattext></material> Translation to html via XSLT With 4xslt from www.4suite.org (Open Source) a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  15. Renderings - block <flow_mat><material><mattext>Agree</mattext></material> </flow_mat> a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  16. CSS2: P.tfButton { pause-before: 20ms } For speech synthesiser In the html flow_mat generates the <P class=“tfButton”> Different stylesheets for different devices and circumstances. System or user-selected at run time. a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  17. Flow example <flow class=“Block”> Is it true that the English author H. G. Wells once said <flow class=“Quotation”> When I see an adult on abicycle,I have hope for the humanrace </flow> </flow> Could generate a visual layout or auditory clue such as a change of speaker a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  18. A requirement • Multi (two) levels of granularity • Alternative Media Issues • Wide range of rich media types • Quicktime, mpeg, avi, dvd, flash, smil, many different transcript and caption types • User control at runtime of what media used (maybe several concurrent streams) • Alternative Items a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  19. Maybe tracking info Profile Selection of items and media Learner device preferences and reqts Presentation Stylesheets Some functionality a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  20. QTI Accessibility <material> What kind of fuel does this vehicle use ? </material> <material> <matimage imagtype=“image/gif” uri=“image1.gif” /> <altmaterial> <mattext> Picture of Person on cycle </mattext> </altmaterial> This seems a reasonable alternative a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  21. Alternative ? • On the other hand Probably needs an alternative item a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  22. A direction – can’t do this yet Requirements • Select at run-time • Determine if content satisfies need • Track ? <material> <matvideo videotype=“video/mpeg” uri=“video1.gif” /> <altmaterial> <meta-data> <equivalentcontent><equivalentcontenttype> Text-transcript </equivalentcontenttype></equivalentcontent> </meta-data> ……. </altmaterial> <altmaterial> <meta-data> <equivalentcontent><equivalentcontenttype> Video-description </equivalentcontenttype></equivalentcontent> </meta-data> ……. </altmaterial> </material> a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  23. How many nouns are there in the french phrase La Plume de ma tante Multiple Language Material English Italian Japanese a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  24. Thread Thread Soon … <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"><SNIP/> <material xml:lang="en-GB"> <mat_text> How many nouns are there in the french phrase </mat_text> <altmaterial xml:lang="it"> <mat_text> Quanti nomi sono là francese nella frase </mat_text> </altmaterial> <MORE-altmaterials-follow/> a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  25. Thread Common … Soon … <altmaterial xml:lang="ja-JP"> <mat_text>何名詞がフランス句にそこにあるか </mat_text></altmaterial> </material> <material xml:lang="fr"> <matemtext>la plume de ma tante </matemtext> </material> a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  26. Issues - assessment • Integration with LMS • Encapsulated content • Encapsulated Items • Validation/equivalence of alternatives • Integrating pedagogic design with tracking and accommodations • (is accessibility really an issue only for some groups of people ?) a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  27. Issues - accessibility • Detailed interface questions ? • Common set across platforms systems, products, user agents ? • Propietary media formats (e.g. flash) ? • Recommend particular media formats/tools (W3C) ? • Usability testing – feedback to the specs (getting in early) a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

  28. Finally .. • The earlier that accessibility requirements are incorporated the less there is to do • We are legally required to do it • The world needs all its human resources a.k.heath@shu.ac.uk

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