online northwest 2009 accessibility and online learning
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Slides from presentation on accessibility and online learning from Online Northwest 2009.For use under Creative Commons' Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/)TRANSCRIPT
“If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it.
You have an obligation to change it.”
~Marian Wright Edelman
Preventing a Digital Divide:
Accessibility and Online Learning
Diana K. [email protected]
California State University, East BayOnline Northwest 2009
Slides, Info & More• http://thewakilibrarian.wordpress.com
Which Digital Divide?
Accessible Design/Universal Design
“research” by mwoodard on flickr used in accordance with Creative Commons License
Deadly Sins of Web Design
http://dwightdesign.com/articles/deadlySinsOfWebDesign.html
What’s Section 508?
How do You Measure Accessibility?
• FAE Rule Set
• beta Rule Set
• HTML Validation
• Navigation
“accessibility” by urbanreviewstldotcom, on flickr
Firefox Accessibility Toolbar
• Free add-on for Firefox
• Use to validate page for accessibility, generate reports, test navigation, etc.
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Vischeck
Vischeck Example
Red/Green Colorblind Simulation
Original Google Homepage
Retrofitting Old Resources
“Typewriter of Capricorn,” by emdot on flickr, used in accordance with Creative Commons License
Overstream
Creating New Accessible Resources
“Touchscreen Confusion,” by cheekyspanky on flickr, used in accordance with Creative Commons License
Putting it all Together...
Another Option: Voicethread
• Interactive, easy to use
• Create audio and text scripts over an online presentation
• Example: http://voicethread.com/share/296806
Wordpress
More Resources• Captivate Tutorials
• AxsJAX
• SurveyMonkey
• W3C
• WebAIM
“httpwww,” by ntr23 on flickr, used in accordance with Creative Commons License
Questions? Comments?
"Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it." ~Robert Heinlein
URLs to Resources Listed
• Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
• Vischeck: http://www.vischeck.com/
• Overstream: http://www.overstream.net/
• Adobe Captivate: http://www.adobe.com
• Voicethread: http://voicethread.com/
• Wordpress: http://wordpress.com
• SurveyMonkey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/
• AxsJAX: http://code.google.com/p/google-axsjax/
• W3C: http://www.w3.org/
• WebAIM: http://www.webaim.org/
• Deadly Sins of Web Design: http://dwightdesign.com/articles/deadlySinsOfWebDesign.html