universal design & web accessibility
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CAPSTONE FALL 2010 Masters of Instructional Science and Technology School of Information Technology and Communication Design, California State University Monterey Bay. UNIVERSAL DESIGN & WEB ACCESSIBILITY. Web-based Instruction for College Students Designer: Teresa Sundholm - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
UNIVERSAL DESIGN &WEB ACCESSIBILITY
Web-based Instruction for College Students
Designer: Teresa SundholmAdvisor: Bude Su
CAPSTONE FALL 2010
Masters of Instructional Science and Technology
School of Information Technology and Communication Design, California State University Monterey Bay
ABOUT ME
• Graduate of ITCD – Website Design
• Teaching assistant ITCD at CSUMB (2008-10)
• Passionate interest in accessible/universal design
• My project – website and tutorials
PROBLEM STATEMENT
• Importance of creating websites that are accessible:
• ethical reasons
• legal reasons
• Current instruction: resource driven, too advanced
IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM
• The American Disabilities Act (ADA) applied to websites
• Future designers cannot ignore need to create:
• websites accessed by users of all abilities
• universally designed websites
Engaging
Instruction
Feedback
Inspire
positive
attitudes
MY SOLUTION
WHAT THIS PROJECT ACCOMPLISHES
• Instructional media engages and informs
• Primer for further study
• Confidence checks and feedback
• Cognitive and Affective learning strategies
• ADA compliant
MAIN MATERIALS USED
• Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS
• Adobe Captivate
• Adobe Photoshop
• Mac iMovie
• Internet Browsers
http://myspace.csumb.edu/~teresa_sundholm/Mist_capstone_site/
PROJECT DEMONSTRATION
EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - TESTING
• Sample size: 17 students (target audience)
• Post-test paired sample one-tail p-value: 0.000335979
• Pre-set alpha: 0.05
• Well below 0.05 - testing shows significant
improvement
QUIZRESULTS
EVALUATION OF THE PROJECT - USABILITY
• Positive student response including:
• ease of use of the project
• engagement from graphics and media
STUDENTCOMMENT
“Very clean and pleasing.
Actually explained the
mechanics – a visually
impaired person can’t read the
text…Good module!”
FUTURE OF THE PROJECT
• Project to be completed
• Use in curriculum
• Use in portfolio
• Saleable
CONCLUSION
• New skills learned:
• technical, coding, testing, instructional design
• Advice for future students:
• Scale project or have partner
• Aware of skillset
• Positive experience
THANKS
• Faculty and staff of ITCD and MIST
• Mentors in design and web accessibility :
• Kevin Cahill, Design Faculty
• Chip Lenno, CIO
• Cindy Compean, Assistive Technology
• Friends