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dl.acm.org dl.acm.org
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Coughlan
Tim Coughlan, University at Bath; work is focused on the design and evaluation of systems that support inclusion, creativity, and openness in learning.
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irainbow.co.za irainbow.co.za
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Conclusion In recent years, educational tablets and software have transformed education in South Africa. If you are looking to homeschool your child and know how children can learn effectively at home, an educational tablet is your best option. There are also offline educational tablets available in South Africa that can immensely help young kids learn better.So just grab an educational tablet for your child and get going!
Is this the tablet Bianca mentioned? It sounds great but an entire tablet? I want to reach consumers on already owned devices. Edit no it's the one who expanded - they just launched english lit en are still launching afrikaans this year.
Variety is the spice of life. I don't think there is room for only one application, personally I wouldn't have enjoyed those graphics as a child, not all children like the same things and learn the same way, so to address that we would need many different applications carering to different tastes.
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it may even be desirable toindex illustrations without description.
I'm reminded of Dennis Duncan's (2022) description of a book which indexed photos as a means of reaching those who were illiterate.
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- Jan 2024
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dev-ff-sandbox.pantheonsite.io dev-ff-sandbox.pantheonsite.io
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humanparts.medium.com humanparts.medium.com
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[[Devon Price]] in Laziness Does Not Exist - Human Parts
Archive copy without paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20191231131144/https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01?gi=e119027675fe
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what-colour-is-that.glitch.me what-colour-is-that.glitch.me
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- Dec 2023
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sonec.org sonec.org
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accessibility
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for: recommendation - citizen group - accessibility
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recommendation - citizen group - accessibility
- a big part of generating participation is feasibility and accessibility
- combination of physical and online meetings are the most flexible, but the physical space must be accessible. Ideally within walking or biking distance. Try to eliminate any form of car travel as it is polluting and consumes precious time
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- Sep 2023
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www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
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US to give Ukraine long-range missiles - reports
we can navigate and interact with the web page using only the keyboard. we can select pages with TAB;
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- Aug 2023
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cilearn.csuci.edu cilearn.csuci.edu
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Lee: On calendaring
Needs to be an hyperlinks in text to be accessible (Watch this X minute video on Calendaring.
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- Jul 2023
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support.apple.com support.apple.com
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a custom alarm, appliance, or doorbellYou can also set up iPhone to recognize a custom alarm, appliance, or doorbell if they aren’t recognized automatically.Go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound Recognition > Sounds.Tap Custom Alarm or Custom Appliance or Doorbell, then enter a name.When your alarm, appliance, or doorbell is ready, place iPhone near the sound and minimize background noise.Tap Start Listening, then follow the onscreen instructions.
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In many cases, all or some of an author'sworks included in this set were unavailable.
One of the primary goals of The Great Books, was to make some of the (especially ancient writers) more accessible to modern audiences with respect to ready availability of their works which were otherwise much more expensive.
This certainly says something about both publishing and reading practices of the early 20th century.
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A resource can map to the empty set, which allowsreferences to be made to a concept before any realization ofthat concept exist
This is a very useful but underutilized property. It allows you to e.g. announce in advance that a resource will exist at some point in the future, and thereby effectively receive "updates" to the linking document without requiring changes to the document itself.
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connect.oeglobal.org connect.oeglobal.org
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The variety of formats which OER resources are available in (.epub, .pdf, .html, and other formats, including future formats like audio and potentially video (.mp3, .mp4) are a form of accessibility.
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- May 2023
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www.w3.org www.w3.org
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Should the W3C be disbanded, then any Web site will be granted the right to make a copy (at a different URI) of all public persistent resources so long as they are not modified and are preserved in their entirety and made available free of charge, and provided the same persistence policy is applied to these "historical mirrors." In such event, the original https://www.w3.org web site will be handed over for management to another organization only if that organization pledges to this policy or one considered more persistent.
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poet.diagramcenter.org poet.diagramcenter.org
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Introduction to Accessible Images
This is an excellent site for instructional designers or anyone who creates content with inclusion in mind.
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(Not sure if it got highlighted properly, but it's the accessibility button on the bottom-right of the webpage) Whenever a website has an accessibility menu option it is a great effort at providing accessibility as it's very simple to configure and boasts a lot of capabilities for accessibility. Such as being able to change languages, having a screen reader, voice navigation, contrast options, text options (spacing and enlarging),and being able to hide animations and images.
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developer.apple.com developer.apple.com
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developer.apple.com developer.apple.com
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developer.android.com developer.android.com
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developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
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developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
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developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
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CSS-generated content is not included in the DOM. Because of this, it will not be represented in the accessibility tree and certain assistive technology/browser combinations will not announce it. If the content conveys information that is critical to understanding the page's purpose, it is better to include it in the main document.
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addons.mozilla.org addons.mozilla.org
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ux.stackexchange.com ux.stackexchange.com
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For people like me, who believe that accessibility applies to all users, the following two words come to mind: Inclusive design. The British Standards Institute (2005) defines inclusive design as "The design of mainstream products and/or services that are accessible to, and usable by, as many people as reasonably possible..."
inclusive design
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tc.computer.org tc.computer.org
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some disadvantages of OER should be acknowledged.
I think one more disadvantage or may be we call it needs attention while creating/distributing OER is considering accessibility aspects of them. Like text images etc.
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- Feb 2023
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openai.com openai.com
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the same general methods
This kind of link list isn't the most accessible. As an example, consider a screen reader that provides its user with an alphabetized list of the page's links. What is the user supposed to do with a link simply called "the"? See https://webaim.org/techniques/hypertext/
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drive.google.com drive.google.comview1
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〈 This explanatory wording is provided for your information onlyand does not form part of the contract. 〉
<span style="color: red;">Design Consideration: Non-contractual Explanations</span>
To ensure that the contextual text was not interpreted as legally binding, it was important for the contextual text to be clearly distinguishable from the legal wording. This is done visually, through the bordered box and distinct typographical style. This text is also enclosed in angle brackets for accessibility reasons, such that users of the contract who may use screen readers or similar tools can identify the contextual text without relying on visual means.
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www.leblancwingchun.com www.leblancwingchun.com
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We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of this site. If you have specific questions or feedback about this site's accessibility or need assistance using specific features, please contact us. If you have found an inaccessible area on the site, please specify the web page or element, and provide any other relevant information to help us locate the problem. In the event a page cannot be made accessible, we will work with you to make a text version of the content available. Please contact us via telephone or email to request a specific electronic format. Additionally, please provide us with your contact information, the format you require, the web page address, and the location of the content. We welcome your questions about this accessibility statement and comments on how to improve our website's accessibility.
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reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk
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Someone with a cognitive impairment, for example, might benefit greatly from visuals rather than paragraphs of text, whilst for screen readers user paragraphs of text are the more accessible option.
!- different handicaps : how to optimise - indyweb solution - long tail app development. Not the responsibility of the information provider, but the Indyvidual who owns their own indyhub selects the apps that are appropriate to their situatedness. - If their perspective is a visually impaired person, then apps that compensate for that are selected, if their impairment is some other sensory or cognitive modality, then select apps appropriate to that
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Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here's how we fix that
!- Title : Blind news audiences are being left behind in the data visualisation revolution: here's how we fix that
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wikimediafoundation.org wikimediafoundation.org
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Research has shown that limiting the width of longform text leads to a more comfortable reading experience, and better retention of the content itself.
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classroomsupport.usu.edu classroomsupport.usu.edu
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www.hilton.com www.hilton.com
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Accessible AmenitiesAvailable accessible features include:AccessibleAccessible business centerAccessible concierge deskAccessible guest rooms with mobility features with entry or passage doors that provide 32” of clear widthAccessible hotel restaurantAccessible parkingAccessible parking spaces for cars in the self-parking facilityAccessible public entranceAccessible registration deskAccessible route from the accessible public entrance to the accessible guestroomsAccessible route from the accessible public entrance to the registration areaAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible entrance to the meeting room/ballroom areaAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to at least one restaurantAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the business centerAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the exercise facilitiesAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the swimming poolAccessible swimming poolAccessible transportation with advance noticeAssistive listening devices for meetings upon requestClosed captioning on televisions or closed captioning decodersDoes Hotel comply with all local and/or national disability laws (outPublic Areas/Facilities accessible for physically challengedServ support animals welcomeSwimming pool hoist for pool accessTTY for guest useVan-accessible parking in the self-parking facilityThe following features are not available:Accessible exercise facilityAccessible route from the hotel’s accessible public entrance to the spaValet only parking
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archive.org archive.org
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Goutor recommended the use of bibliographic cards not only for their standard uses as sourcing, information, and footnotes, but for creating potential scopes of work and research for planning purposes, especially in planning out one's reading and note taking using various archives and resources to make more effective and productive use of one's time. (p13) This can be potentially very useful for visiting archives and sources for which one does not have easy or frequent access.
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www.cbc.ca www.cbc.ca
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Hawthorn, A. (2021, September 26). Like polio, the long-term impact of COVID will be measured in disability | CBC News. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/apocalypse-then-disability-1.6187990
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- Jul 2022
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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he citation canbecome a footnote.
Why not make this index card pictured fill up the entire width of the text? It could be more visually accessible...
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www.congress.gov www.congress.gov
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no more than 500 words in length
this is dope as hell. need to check on the enforcement mechanisms tho
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- Jun 2022
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silviamaggidesign.com silviamaggidesign.com
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motorsport.tv motorsport.tv
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LAST UPDATED AND EFFECTIVE DATE: JULY 10, 2014
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developer.apple.com developer.apple.com
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No additional considerations for iOS, macOS, or tvOS.
Believe it or not, finding this sentence, just now was actually a huge breakthrough in my iPhone Keyboard Reference project...
Proud of you, bastards, for actually saying one sentence!
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- May 2022
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openeducationalberta.ca openeducationalberta.ca
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Check out the WUN Presentation related to this topic here: https://youtu.be/EzrXljVmKK8
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storybook.js.org storybook.js.org
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www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
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The biggest barriers to coding are technical complexity around processes like collaboration and deployment, and social obstacles like gatekeeping and exclusion — so that's what we've got to fix
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If you’re a coder, when’s the last time you just quickly built something to solve a problem for yourself or simply because it was a fun idea?
And how future-proof was the result or how easy was it to make sure you could share it with others in a form that they could make use of (and not be dependent on you or some third-party or their internet connection)?
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web.dev web.dev
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vhsoverdrive.neocities.org vhsoverdrive.neocities.org
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This appeal would have a greater effect if it weren't itself published in a format that exhibits so much of what was less desirable of the pre-modern Web—fixed layouts that show no concern for how I'm viewing this page and causes horizontal scrollbars, overly stylized MySpace-ish presentation, and a general imposition of the author's preferences and affinity for kitsch above all else—all things that we don't want.
I say this as someone who is not a fan of the trends in the modern Web. Responsive layouts and legible typography are not casualties of the modern Web, however. Rather, they exhibit the best parts of its maturation. If we can move the Web out of adolescence and get rid of the troublesome aspects, we'd be doing pretty good.
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graphicdesignforcoursecreators.pressbooks.com graphicdesignforcoursecreators.pressbooks.com
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This book was written to help educators and instructional designers to design visually appealing courses (and curricular materials) that are also digitally accessible. I argue that applying graphic design principles reduces barriers, lowers cognitive load, and improves learning. I created the Graphic Design E-Learning Checklist to help instructional designers improve the look and feel of their courses while designing for inclusivity at the forefront
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dl.acm.org dl.acm.org
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must not consist of a bag of tricks and trade secrets, but of a general intellectual ability
I often think about how many things like Spectre/Meltdown are undiscovered because of how esoteric and unapproachable the associated infrastructure is that might otherwise better allow someone with a solid lead to follow through on their investigation.
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A complaint more specific to the quantity of books was articulated in 1522 by the jurist Giovanni Nevizzano of Asti (d. 1540) who observed that the great number of available books made it hard to find the books one needed. Proper selection among the many books available was crucial because “if a scholar does not have the books required for his subject, he does not enjoy the privi-leges of a scholar.”20
This same sort of quote is often repeated in the present while vitiating against the corporate publishers who own most of research publishing and charge for it dearly.
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www.linkinglearning.com.au www.linkinglearning.com.au
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The Open Network Learning Mooc has a focus on using open platforms and Open Education Resources; except for the Adobe Connect Pro software being used for webinars. This model of openness signifies a significant move forward in making education accessible and flexible for all participants.
I strongly believe in this method of teaching by presenting opportunities to access information, knowledge and education as freely as possible (my main reason is due to the severity of the socio-economic disparities in my learning environment in South Africa). It is important to provide opportunities for all to be able to move out of their circumstances and the best way to do this is through education (if education is accessible).
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citeseerx.ist.psu.edu citeseerx.ist.psu.edudownload1
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Writing for the web is still a complex and technically sophisticated activity. Too many tools, languages, protocols, expectations and requirements have to be considered together for the creation of web pages and sites.
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audiodescription.accessinthemaking.ca audiodescription.accessinthemaking.ca
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Audio Description (AD) is usually defined as a way to make TV, films, theater, and other art and media content accessible to blind and low vision audiences. In this standardized approach, AD is often reduced to an add-on that gets created only after artworks are finished. AD and the artwork, in other words, remain distinct. Hosted by the AIM Lab, artistic mentors to the exhibition, Cheryl Green and Thomas Reid, led a 3-part online workshop (September 2021) that challenged this separation. Instead of keeping AD apart from the artwork, they asked: why not consider AD as an art form in and of itself? Beginning from a place that centres the experiences of those who are Blind and recognizes the art in audio description, the workshop invited participants to reflect critically both on visual information and to view it as more than mere access. It encouraged creativity not only through describing an image or object but recognizing how description can generate new art. Participants began with a catalyst piece of art of media piece – audio described it, and then generated a whole new work using the audio description as the foundation. Instead of producing neutral or objective descriptions, participants were invited to experiment with approaches that highlighted the physical body, its situatedness, rich sensory experiences, and storytelling. The resulting series of works engage with AD in innovative and creative ways, exploring sound, text, movement, and their mixtures to build entire worlds. From an audio-logo to a binder that comes to life to sci-fi mediation to a lusty afternoon brewing mead to a video game adventure to artistic critiques of colonial pasts to glittering light that turn windowpanes into jellyfish, the collection of pieces in this online exhibit engages with the creative potentials of access.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Unit, Corona Behavioural. ‘The Effect of Proximity of COVID-19 Test Facilities on Test Uptake: Two Quasi-Experimental Trials’. PsyArXiv, 17 February 2022. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rhvmc.
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www.infoworld.com www.infoworld.com
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Despite its warts, we continue to rely on e-mail with attachments as the standard enabler of these collaborations because it is a universal solvent. Our HR folks, for example, work for a different organizational unit than I do. Implementing a common collaboration system would require effort. Exploiting the e-mail common denominator requires none.
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- Feb 2022
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Principle 2: Consider Adding On‐Screen Text to Narration in Special Situations
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Clark and Mayer describe a key exception to the first principle they describe. One of the special situations they describe consists of when a learner must "exert greater cognitive effort to comprehend spoken text rather than printed text" (p. 140). This could be when the verbal material is complex and challenging, such as when learners are learning another language or when terminology is challenging such as might be encountered in scientific, technical, or legal(?) domains (p. 141).
[P]rinting unfamiliar technical terms on the screen may actually reduce cognitive processing because the learner does not need to grapple with decoding the spoken words.
However, it may be necessary to ensure that video is slow-paced or learner-controlled under circumstances where both audio narration and on-screen text are provided. Mayer, Lee, and Peebles (2014) found that when video is fast-paced, redundant text can cause cognitive overload, even when learners are non-native speakers.
Mayer, R. E., Lee, H., & Peebles, A. (2014). Multimedia Learning in a Second Language: A Cognitive Load Perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28(5), 653–660. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3050
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Principle 1: Do Not Add On‐Screen Text to Narrated Graphics
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Clark and Mayer advise against providing redundant on-screen text at the same time that graphics (video) and narration are provided. They base their recommendation on both research and theory. And they provide two reasons before getting into the details: 1) learners reading on-screen text might not attend to graphics and 2) learners may try to reconcile on-screen text and audio narration and engage in extraneous processing defined below (p. 459)[emphasis added]:
Irrelevant mental work during learning that results from ineffective instructional design of the lesson. For example, a graphic appears at the top of a scrolling screen and text explaining the graphic appears at the bottom so that contiguity is violated.
But what if recognizing words and phrases accurately becomes a key component of comprehending a graphic or a video-recorded presentation? And what if the combination of audio narration and on-screen text can be used to support that that comprehension?
There are some interesting studies in second language learning that seem to show similar benefits.
Gass, S., Winke, P., Isbell, D. R., & Ahn, J. (2019). How captions help people learn languages: A working-memory, eye-tracking study. Language Learning & Technology, 23(2), 84–104. https://doi.org/10125/44684
Mayer, R. E., Lee, H., & Peebles, A. (2014). Multimedia Learning in a Second Language: A Cognitive Load Perspective. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 28(5), 653–660. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3050
Winke, P., Gass, S., & Sydorenko, T. (2010). The Effects of Captioning Videos Used for Foreign Language Listening Activities. Language Learning & Technology, 14(1), 65–86. http://dx.doi.org/10125/44203
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developer.chrome.com developer.chrome.com
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tools for thought rheingold MIT Press logo concept design: the essence of software jackson designing constructionist futures nathan holbert, matthew berland, and yasmin b. kafai, editors MIT Press logo structure and interpretation of computer programs second edition abelson and sussman MIT Press Indroduction to the theory of computation
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toward a theory of instruction bruner belknap / harvard tools for conviviality ivan illich harper & row the human interface raskin addison wesley the design of everyday things don norman basic books changing minds disessa MIT Press logo mindstorms seymour papert unknown logo understanding computers and cognition winograd and flores addison wesley software abstraction jackson revised edition MIT Press logo living with complexity norman MIT Press logo the art of doing science and engineering—learning to learn richard w. hamming stripe press logo the computer boys take over ensmenger recoding gender abbate MIT Press logo weaving the web tim berners-lee harper dealers of lightning: xerox parc and the dawn of the computer age michael a hiltik harper the dream machine m. mitchell waldrop stripe press logo from counterculture to cyberculture fred turner chicago the innovators walter isaacson simon & schuster paperbacks a people's history of computing in the united states joy lisi rankin harvard the media lab stewart brand penguin logo
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about face: the essentials of interaction design cooper, reimann, cronin, noessel 4th edition wiley the new media reader wardrip, fruin, and montfort, editors designing interactions bill moggridge includes DVD MIT Press logo interactive programming environments barstow, shrobe, sanderwall mcgraw hill visual programming shu software visualization editors: stasko, domingue, brown, price MIT Press logo types and programming languages pierce MIT Press logo smalltalk-80: the interactive programming environment goldberg addison wesley constructing the user... statecharts qa 76.9 .u83 h66 1999 the human use of human beings: cybernetics and society wiener da capo pasteur's quadrant stokes brookings scientific freedom: the elixir of civilization donald w. braben stripe press logo a pattern language alexander, ishikawa, silverstein, jacobson, fiksdahl-king, angel oxford the timeless way of building alexander oxford
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And here’s a photo of my computing bookshelf as of November 2020, with some of the books that have influenced me the most:
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www.iorad.com www.iorad.com
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tutorials
chrome extension for tutorials, accessibility
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medicalxpress.com medicalxpress.com
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Crane, M., & University, T. O. S. (n.d.). Vaccine hesitance dropped faster among Blacks, study finds. Retrieved January 24, 2022, from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-01-vaccine-hesitance-faster-blacks.html
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www.w3.org www.w3.org
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The internet is for end users: any change made to the web platform has the potential to affect vast numbers of people, and may have a profound impact on any person’s life. [RFC8890]
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blog.jim-nielsen.com blog.jim-nielsen.com
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www.newyorker.com www.newyorker.com
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If you visit the Web site of the Online Computer Library Center and look at its WorldMap, you can see the numbers of books in public and academic systems around the world. Sixty million Britons have a hundred and sixteen million public-library books at their disposal, while more than 1.1 billion Indians have only thirty-six million. Poverty, in other words, is embodied in lack of print as well as in lack of food. The Internet will do much to redress this imbalance, by providing Western books for non-Western readers. What it will do for non-Western books is less clear.
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- Dec 2021
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www.vice.com www.vice.com
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If you try to export the document in an internet-compatible format like HTML, you get a mess.
I've noted elsewhere that despite the reputation of WYSIWYG editors' tendencies for handling HTML, modern mainstream Web development practices are so bad today that just typing a bunch of junk into LibreOffice and saving as HTML results in one of the most economical ways to do painless authoring of Web content...
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- Sep 2021
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www.thetechedvocate.org www.thetechedvocate.org
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e-learning allows you to cater your lessons to their needs.
We need to remember that accessibility isn't juust online learning but any digital instructional materials.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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So do all manner of other peculiarities of form, including notations of editions on the verso (the flip side) of the full title page and the running headers all throughout that rename the book you are already reading.
I do dislike the running headers of digital copies of books as most annotation tools want to capture those headers in the annotation.
It would be nice if they were marked up in an Aria-like method so that annotation software would semantically know to ignore them.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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equalrightscenter.org equalrightscenter.org
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www.cs.princeton.edu www.cs.princeton.edu
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making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge.
Perhaps a task as daunting as this felt unachievable in 1945 (unless through some form of library systems) however I would argue that nowadays, knowledge is more accessible than ever before and with each passing day, the accessibility only augments from that of the day before. The WWW has created a global and open source store of knowledge that can be read and written by all.
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Cucinotta, C. E., Martin, B. J. E., Noé González, M., Raman, P., Teif, V. B., & Vlaming, H. (2021). Strength is in engagement: The rise of an online scientific community during the COVID‐19 pandemic. EMBO Reports, 22(5). https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.202152612
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www.inf.unibz.it www.inf.unibz.it
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building software visualization tools as web ap-plications can help in making them available to a larger audi-ence
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www.benmyers.dev www.benmyers.dev
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https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/
Curious double entendre title here.
Note to self: I should use these patterns more.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Unvaccinated Is Different From Anti-Vax—The Atlantic. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/07/unvaccinated-different-anti-vax/619523/
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- Jul 2021
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inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net inst-fs-iad-prod.inscloudgate.net
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support.google.com support.google.com
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Live Caption
I went to Google Accessibility and played with the Live Caption feature it has. I didn't even know this was a thing. It may be another option for captioning videos. Technology is such a beautiful thing!
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- Jun 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Thomas Rhys Evans on Twitter: “🚨 Get Involved 🚨 #OpenScience practices and preregistration are all well and good, but do they help with applied and consultancy research? 🧵...” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 27, 2021, from https://twitter.com/ThomasRhysEvans/status/1395752110088675328
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Evans, T. R., Branney, P., Clements, A., & Hatton, E. (2021). Preregistration of Applied Research for Evidence-Based Practice [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/snj2d
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oeidsanders.pressbooks.com oeidsanders.pressbooks.comTools4
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By including these learning checks within Pressbooks, I'm overlapping with LMS functions. This would be another decision to work out with SME. The purpose is not to have course activities in 10 different places or to overextend the Pressbooks format, but simply to show the committee some range in my interactivity options.
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Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts, and Skype). There are also 3D chat rooms that can be found in VWs (see chapter 3) such as Second Life and Twinity.
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oeidsanders.pressbooks.com oeidsanders.pressbooks.com
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Consider the following infographic
This would have been selected with SME. I wanted to demonstrate multiple means of representation and use an insert to demonstrate use of Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in OER.
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following video
Video embed to illustrate content & address diverse learning styles. Handy that I found one from the author, but as with all media inserts I've added, these would be chosen with the SME!
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Figure 4.1. A computer classroom at Washington State University.
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oeidsanders.pressbooks.com oeidsanders.pressbooks.com
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take advantage of modeling gain new, comprehensible language input use language creatively work together to understand new experiences and derive meaning from them solve language and content problems gain control of a situation or person learn to use language appropriately transfer information focus on language structure and use
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STE Standards for Students
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TESOL Technology Standards
Heavy references to standards in this chapter could be represented in a table format in addition to text for UDL reasons.
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oeidsanders.pressbooks.com oeidsanders.pressbooks.com
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Explain
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Chapter 4: Communication and Collaboration
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docs.gitlab.com docs.gitlab.com
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hen selecting by text it is best to use the byRole query as it helps enforce accessibility best practices.
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- May 2021
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blogs.bmj.com blogs.bmj.com
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Optimising covid-19 vaccine uptake—Time for a more nuanced approach. (2021, April 30). The BMJ. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/04/30/optimising-covid-19-vaccine-uptake-time-for-a-more-nuanced-approach/
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professorjfreeman.org professorjfreeman.org
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Canvas has an accessibility checker option that provides an evaluation of how well the instructor sets up their site for overall accessibility. It also provides tips on how to improve the site.
I was not aware of this feature and I'll definitely be checking it out in the future!
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kit.svelte.dev kit.svelte.dev
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makes your app inaccessible to users if JavaScript fails or is disabled (which happens more often than you probably think).
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- Apr 2021
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axe-con.com axe-con.com
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Email Accessibility
- Subject lines: Simple, No-nonsense
- Preheaders (i.e., the snippet that shows up in the inbox view) need to clearly state the purpose of the email
- Use alt text for images (even for logos, "unimportant" information. Blind and low-vision folks don't want to "miss out" on information. If you've decided it's important enough to include in your email, it's important enough for alt text)
- Buttons should be large, bold color, obvious, and should have ARIA labels
- Software like Salesforce, Constant Contact, and Mailchimp allow you to paste HTML code, which allows you to add ARIA roles, alt text, etc
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axe-con.com axe-con.com
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- Will continue to use A, AA, and AAA to indicate 1st priority, 2nd priority, and 3rd priority
- 2.2 Guidelines will be more technically prescriptive, but will offer multiple ways to meet guidelines so designers still have control over look and feel of content
- New AA requirement: All functionality that uses dragging movement can be operated by a single pointer without dragging, unless dragging is essential (might have implications for creating highlights/annotations?)
- Requirement that users can find help for completing tasks (having a "Contact us" link meets this requirement, so Hypothesis will be covered)
- Accessible authentication: don't require users to remember an email/password or complete a CAPTCHA. Allow for social login, or provide "Email a login link" option.
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developer.mozilla.org developer.mozilla.org
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CSS-generated content is not included in the DOM. Because of this, it will not be represented in the accessibility tree and certain assistive technology/browser combinations will not announce it. If the content conveys information that is critical to understanding the page's purpose, it is better to include it in the main document.
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- Mar 2021
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adactio.com adactio.com
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tatianamac.com tatianamac.com
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Unfortunately, so many of our tutorials (and media in general) only comes in one form. When our teachings are only provided in one media, in one language, in one form, it is inherently inaccessible to some subset of our students.
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the-pastry-box-project.net the-pastry-box-project.net
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A Low Bar to Entry, and then What?There is an interesting tension between making something accessible and making it boring. Lowering the barrier of entry is a good thing, but if all you do is low-bar stuff, you end up losing the people again that you managed to attract. There needs to be a path forward beyond the entry level.
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Wilbur, M., Ayman, A., Ouyang, A., Poon, V., Kabir, R., Vadali, A., Pugliese, P., Freudberg, D., Laszka, A., & Dubey, A. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 on Public Transit Accessibility and Ridership. ArXiv:2008.02413 [Physics]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02413
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stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
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Screen readers for the blind can help them fill out a form more easily if the logical sections are broken into fieldsets with one legend for each one. A blind user can hear the legend text and decide, "oh, I can skip this section," just as a sighted user might do by reading it.
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- Feb 2021
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www.cnn.com www.cnn.com
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openpedagogy.org openpedagogy.org
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What challenges do your students face in their learning environments, and how does your pedagogy address them?
My students experience a number of accessibility challenges. These can range from paying for materials, viewing materials in different modalities, accessing the materials at different times etc. My hope is that Open Pedagogy can help lower those barriers to increase educational outcomes.
I also (esp in the age of COVID) want to use resources that help build community within my classrooms and across the university environment.
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dev.to dev.to
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[2021] Tools for testing accessibility
- Linter - eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y
- Tests - jest-axe/cypress-axe (deque's testing solution)
- Browser tools - Lighthouse
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- Jan 2021
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www.boia.org www.boia.org
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We talked, for example, about how stores and governments were adding new rules and social distancing guidelines, often communicated through purely visual means, like stickers on the floor and printed signs. Mr. Johnston acknowledged that it was a tough new time for businesses, but shared that he faces new types of exclusion as a result.
this just makes me wonder how society in general will cope with this. Companies nay be more sensitive to all these challenges COVID has pushed in fast forward mode.
This is not only about designers being in the front seat of the business development plan, is about we as users setting-up these expectations!
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css-tricks.com css-tricks.com
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The trouble with leaving the verb off is that if a user experiencing low or no vision is browsing with the aid of a screen reader, they may not be able to determine what the noun is for. Screen readers can scrape the current page and create lists by content type (headings, links, buttons, etc.) for easer navigation. Static text that is placed in visual proximity to the download links will not come along for the ride if accessed via this method. While it might seem redundant to show the word “download” over and over again, including it can go a long way to providing context for users navigating without visual aids, or who have zoomed the page’s content to the point where the layout may not communicate the visual relationship.
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In cases where there’s multiple download links on a page, the presence of the noun will help users navigating via screen reader. Here’s what it would sound like if you were browsing a page that had eight noun-less download links: Do you know which one of those eight links gets you what you want? No? That’s not great. Similarly, the presence of the download attribute on an <a> element won’t be announced by screen readers, so the verb is equally vital. It’s important to provide context!
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inclusivedesignprinciples.org inclusivedesignprinciples.org
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Content for alternatives: Having a basic alternative, whether it's alt text, a transcript, audio description, or sign language, makes the content accessible but to be equivalent it needs to capture the essence of the original.
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- Nov 2020
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uxdesign.cc uxdesign.cc
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Make sure the label colour stands out against the button fill. You can check using http://accessible-colors.com/. Always make sure that your colours meet the AAA requirements.
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www.niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org
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Becca Monteleone, a professor of disability studies at the University of Toledo. Monteleone says, historically, when people have written about individuals with intellectual and development disabilities, they’ve been “writing about rather than for or with.”
And isn't this how we should be writing about most?
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blogs.ed.ac.uk blogs.ed.ac.uk
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many modes matter in representing academic knowledge.
multi modal not only matters in representing academic knowledge, but is also a method of ensuring accessibility
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- Oct 2020
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Interaction strategies are a type of accommodation that typically go unnamed and unwritten
How many times do we use "accommodations" which dance around the relational issues, instead of dealing directly with them?
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react-spectrum.adobe.com react-spectrum.adobe.com
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Sometimes you might need to use an element other than a native <button>. useButton supports this via the elementType prop. When used with an element other than a native button, useButton automatically applies the necessary ARIA roles and attributes to ensure that the element is exposed to assistive technology as a button.
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eds.a.ebscohost.com eds.a.ebscohost.com
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Workplace Learning: The Roles of Knowledge Accessibility and Management
Li, J., Brake, G., Champion, A., Fuller, T., Gabel, S., & Hatcher-Busch, L. (2009). Workplace Learning: The Roles of Knowledge Accessibility and Management. Journal of Workplace Learning, 21(4), 347–364.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge management systems have been used by the studied organizations to improve knowledge accessibility and knowledge sharing in order to increase workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: The study relies on a qualitative multisite case study method. Data were obtained from five organizations at a southern state in the USA. Multiple interviews, onsite observation, and documentation analyses were conducted at each studied organization. Data analysis used open coding and thematic analysis. Results were triangulated based on multiple data sources. Findings: The findings revealed that the learning environment of an organization is important for workplace learning. All studied organizations share a need for a conversion of tacit to explicit knowledge in order to facilitate effective informal learning in the workplace. This research concludes that engineering the learning environment through effective knowledge management should be a cohesive effort of the entire organization and demands congruent support from all levels of the organization. Originality/value: The study expands the understanding of issues related to workplace learning through knowledge accessibility in both business and academic settings. To improve workplace learning, one should not just stipulate technology interventions; other factors, such as the organization's design, work design, and the culture/vision of the organization, all play important roles in the creation of a learning organization that will induce informal learning in the workplace.
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web.hypothes.is web.hypothes.is
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Once you have selected text on the page and used our a keyboard shortcut, your browser’s focus will shift to a text box in the Hypothesis sidebar. Here you’ll be able to type a note to accompany your text selection.
Testing out making annotations in the browser with Hypothes.is by only using my keyboard.
- F7 to turn on Carrot browsing extension
- Ctrl+Shift+H to turn on Hypothesis
- Use Ctrl and arrow keys to move about the page
- Shift + arrow keys to highlight section
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aorhto open up an annotation or highlight respectively - For annotations, type the note, tab to add tags, and then post.
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www.mobs-lab.org www.mobs-lab.org2019nCOV1
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2019nCOV. (n.d.). MOBS Lab. Retrieved October 2, 2020, from https://www.mobs-lab.org/2019ncov.html
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- Sep 2020
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Nagaraj, A., Shears, E., & Vaan, M. de. (2020). Improving data access democratizes and diversifies science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(38), 23490–23498. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001682117
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Intuitive EPI - Channel introduction. (n.d.). Retrieved September 23, 2020, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMO2-Hf2-EY
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react-spectrum.adobe.com react-spectrum.adobe.com
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The fully styleable primitives that the web offers (e.g. <div>) are quite powerful, but they lack semantic meaning. This means that accessibility is often missing because assistive technology cannot make sense of the div soup that we use to implement our components.
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Kwon, D. (2020). More than 100 scientific journals have disappeared from the Internet. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02610-z
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Gollwitzer, M., Abele-Brehm, A., Fiebach, C., Ramthun, R., Scheel, A. M., Schönbrodt, F., & Steinberg, U. (2020). Data Management and Data Sharing in Psychological Science: Revision of the DGPs Recommendations. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/24ncs
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Stephanie deGiorgio on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 10, 2020, from https://twitter.com/DrSdeG/status/1303946431523418112
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Anthony Costello on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 9, 2020, from https://twitter.com/globalhlthtwit/status/1303597547546652672
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twitter.com twitter.com
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Joshua Salomon on Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved September 7, 2020, from https://twitter.com/SalomonJA/status/1302767010367983616
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www.a11yproject.com www.a11yproject.com
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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New York’s Subway Installs Vending Machines With Personal Protective Equipment. (n.d.). NPR.Org. Retrieved July 9, 2020, from https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/888509999/new-yorks-subway-installs-vending-machines-with-personal-protective-equipment
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- Aug 2020
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alistapart.com alistapart.com
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Accessibility without inclusion is not real accessibility.
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If you work in government, food supply, healthcare, or utilities, there is no excuse for not providing offline options. In doing so you are excluding some of the most marginalized people. The internet is amazing, but it is not the only way to share information.
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Digital exclusion is when someone is unable or unwilling to access information and services online.
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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Naikoba, S., & Hayward, A. (2001). The effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing handwashing in healthcare workers—A systematic review. Journal of Hospital Infection, 47(3), 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1053/jhin.2000.0882
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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Preprint Servers Have Changed Research Culture in Many Fields. Will a New One for Education Catch On? - EdSurge News. (2020, August 20). EdSurge. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-08-20-preprint-servers-have-changed-research-culture-in-many-fields-will-a-new-one-for-education-catch-on
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www.medrxiv.org www.medrxiv.org
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Vogels, C. B. F., Brackney, D., Wang, J., Kalinich, C. C., Ott, I., Kudo, E., Lu, P., Venkataraman, A., Tokuyama, M., Moore, A. J., Muenker, M. C., Casanovas-Massana, A., Fournier, J., Bermejo, S., Campbell, M., Datta, R., Nelson, A., Team, Y. I. R., Cruz, C. D., … Grubaugh, N. (2020). SalivaDirect: Simple and sensitive molecular diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2 surveillance. MedRxiv, 2020.08.03.20167791. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167791
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www.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org
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Kaplan, L. M., & McGuckin, M. (1986). Increasing Handwashing Compliance With More Accessible Sinks. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 7(8), 408–410. https://doi.org/10.1017/S019594170006464X
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- Jul 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Schelhorn, I., Ecker, A., Bereznai, J., Tran, T., Rehm, S., Lugo, R., Sütterlin, S., Kinateder, M., & Shiban, Y. (2020). Depression symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in different regions in Germany. [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p9wz8
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.comYouTube1
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Supporting Open Science Data Curation, Preservation, and Access by Libraries. (2020, June 25). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbmGWHpzAHs&feature=youtu.be
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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Made analogy with internal combustion engine, which has 1000s of parts, with the "radical simplicity" approach taken by Tesla: they use an electric motor, which only has 2 components!
comparison: Sapper vs. Gatsby
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zoom.us zoom.us
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Supporting Open Science Data Curation, Preservation, and Access by Libraries. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. (n.d.). Zoom Video. Retrieved June 28, 2020, from https://zoom.us/webinar/register/2615905946283/WN_W6dYUXQFTqGQjGAZPRB74w
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en.unesco.org en.unesco.org
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https://plus.google.com/+UNESCO. (2020, February 17). Open Science. UNESCO. https://en.unesco.org/science-sustainable-future/open-science
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Quintana, D. S., & Heathers, J. (2020). How podcasts can benefit science [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ry5x9
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- May 2020
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langwitches.org langwitches.org
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Also, with more design styles and choices, many websites opt to not use an underlining style for an embedded link in text, nor will they use a traditional blue color to indicate an embedded link.
Fortunately Google's ranking algorithm penalizes against this in addition to requirements for better online accessibility that help to encourage against these sorts of dark patterns of web design. Users still need to be aware that they exist however.
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- Apr 2020
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www.troyhunt.com www.troyhunt.com
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I got way too many emails from people about API requests being blocked to respond to. Often this was due to simply not meeting the API requirements, for example providing a descriptive UA string. Other times it was because they were on the same network as abusive users. There were also those who simply smashed through the rate limit too quickly and got themselves banned for a day. Other times, there were genuine API users in that West African country who found themselves unable to use the service. I was constantly balancing the desire to make the API easily accessible whilst simultaneously trying to ensure it wasn't taken advantage of.
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- Mar 2020
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www.digital-democracy.org www.digital-democracy.org
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make it accessible for them to provide tough love to your plans and projects
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- Feb 2020
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www.nad.org www.nad.org
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MIT, one of the most celebrated academic research institutes in the world, has agreed to provide industry standard captioning for publicly-available online content, including video and audio content posted on MIT.edu as well as MIT’s YouTube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud pages, certain live-streaming events and online courses such as Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), MITx and MIT OpenCourseWare.
everything publicly facing and once has to assume it will be privately facing as well as this point. The need for live transcription, natural language processing, and all sorts of things to convert such massive outputs should be through the roof!
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dequeuniversity.com dequeuniversity.com
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Safari Settings: Advanced > Accessibility > Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage
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System Settings: Keyboard > Shortcuts > Full Keyboard Access > All controls
I think this may be out of date. On macOS 10.15 (Catalina) I see no such option. However there is an option to enable keyboard navigation with a different label ("Use keyboard navigation...").
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Implementing Accessibility in a Digital Print
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Types of Impairments and Disabilities
Preview of a digital print
Developing a design plan
Give me some specifics on Dyslexia, cognitive disabilities, etc.
recommending listing Step 1 of X, Why is this easier for a person with disabilities?
cool cool i know how to add alt text
Designing Plan Considerations:
Visual - images with alt text
Motor/Mobility - use mouse-free
Auditory - add close captioning
Learning - Add visual cues and dyslexic font
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- Dec 2019
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academic.oup.com academic.oup.com
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Remarkably, studies receiving mainly public funding can, a quarter of a century on, still survive without making their data available in a useful way. In the UK a series of studies—the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) (100), UK Biobank (101), and Born in Bradford (102), among others—have surely been exemplary in promoting data accessibility.
Critical points!
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- Nov 2019
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uxdesign.cc uxdesign.cc
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article circulating that claims accessibility and aesthetics are at odds with each other
Oh, you mean this one? https://uxmovement.com/thinking/the-aesthetic-accessibility-paradox/ I'll just go ahead and link it to make it ... accessible ... for everyone. :)
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This is to say, the ingredients and the quantities thereof are indicated by pictures which most illiterate persons can understand and persons with poor vision can see; and which are readily grasped by the minds of those who are not in the above classes.
an early example of accessibility UI in a cook book.
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courses.kpu.ca courses.kpu.ca
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public money isnot used to create or perpetuate disability-related barriers, and regarding training of front-linepersonnel.
This component of the Bill may help other disciplines other than our own to take this seriously.
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- Aug 2019
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er.educause.edu er.educause.edu
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And they have largely moved beyond the mental model of universal design (UD) in the physical environment, which is static, bounded, and predictable—instead designing interactions according to UDL, which sees interactions as dynamic, open, and emergent.
Really interesting point here about the limit of the "curb cut" metaphor.
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They typically chop off the end of the word "accessibility," focusing their efforts on expanding access, regardless of the ability profiles of their learners
Great pull quote.
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developer.paciellogroup.com developer.paciellogroup.com
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learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com learn-us-east-1-prod-fleet01-xythos.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com04Huang1
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Since online learning has a different setting from the conventional classroom,online educators need to use some special techniques and perceptions to leadto success. Moreover, adults have special needs and requirements as learnerscompared with children and adolescents, thus online educators should knowhow adults can learn best because of their special characteristics. Philosophicaland methodological shifts also affect instruction. Many researchers havesuggested that constructivism should be applied in distance education. Thus,this paper attempts to examine the impact of constructivism in online learningenvironments when focusing on adult learners. The author develops the con-nection between constructivism and adult learning theory. In addition, thepaper proposes instructional guidelines using the constructivist approach inonline learning for adults.
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- Mar 2019
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teachonline.asu.edu teachonline.asu.edu
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The Accessibility Guide
Arizona State University has a public webpage i nregards to accessibility and instructional design. The web page links to multiple online resources that outline accessibility standards across the United States. Additionally, this webpage provides an accessibility guide for anyone to download for instructional design related projects. Rating 9/10 for being a helpful resource that is easily accessible.
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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Online is clearly where the growth is, especially when it comes to enrolling adults.
This article is based around the idea that online education increases access for learners but lacks in completion data. This article provides data around the United States from a study conducted over a few years. Generally speaking this article encourages blended learning rather than all online to obtain better outcomes for adult learners. Rating 7/10 for use of graphs and evidence from data.
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unbound.upcea.edu unbound.upcea.edu
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Adult students have a higher incidence of disability and are less likely to seek accommodations than the general student population, so it is critical that institutions of higher education anticipate their needs, especially in online classes.
This article provides statistics about the number of adult learners who learn online with a disability and how these numbers need to be addressed. The author observes that adult learning are least likely to ask for help and it's the designers job to assess their work to make it more accessible. This article provides recommendations on how to become more familiar with technology and what guidelines people should be following. Rating: 10/10 for addressing accessibility among adult learners and providing recommendations.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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The project reported here aimed to highlight the advantages and weaknesses of web‐based learning for adults with learning disability, and to suggest improvements.
This article reviews challenges faced by adult learners with learning disabilities as it related to online learning. This article discusses how adults with learning disabilities might not adopt new technologies in a productive way and highlights positive and negative aspects of this scenario. Additionally the author provides solutions to identify advantages and disadvantages of online learning for adults. Rating: 9/10 for addressing accessibility and disability concerns among adult learners.
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www.europarl.europa.eu www.europarl.europa.eu
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Wat zou een inhoudsopgave in dit document goed van pas zijn gekomen...
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www.elearningguild.com www.elearningguild.com
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This is here in part to make sure that one of my bookmarks is the E-learning Guild. They offer an executive summary on 'creating accessible eLearning: practitioner perspectives" for free at this page. The entire document is available to members. Rating 3/5
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- Feb 2019
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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A new set of quality indicators for accessible educational materials aims to help institutions ensure at scale that all students have the same learning opportunities in face-to-face classrooms and digital learning environments.
set of quality indicators for accessible materials - can we measure these? Are we measuring these?
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www.pcc.edu www.pcc.edu
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Accessibility Guide
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cloudflare.design cloudflare.design
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- Jan 2019
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inclusive-components.design inclusive-components.design
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if packages and their elements are essential tools, then it makes a considerable difference that some are more readily available than others. Making sense of the world requires an effort, and those tools that are developed, spotlighted, and made readily accessible have a higher probability of being used
i.e. the most available and accessible frames are the most likely to influence public opinion
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- Dec 2018
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muse.jhu.edu muse.jhu.edu
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without opening a separate tab)
"In general, it is better not to open new windows and tabs since they can be disorienting for people, especially people who have difficulty perceiving visual content."
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- Nov 2018
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highedwebtech.com highedwebtech.com
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site audit tool
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www.pcc.edu www.pcc.edu
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Accessibility of Online Content
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www.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com
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This article brings up the important issue of accessibility as a barrier to technology integration. It is suggested that accessibility should be a much more pressing concern than technological relevance to a lesson plan. First it is important to know whether or not all students will still have equal access and ability to reach mastery with the deliver method provided.
Rating: 7/10
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- Oct 2018
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conf.a11yto.com conf.a11yto.com
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Making Bulb More Accessible Heydon Pickering
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The Imitation Game Job van Achterberg
Simulation alone might have opposite of intended effect— participants might end up feeling negatively about the disability being simulated.
However, if framed with an appropriate conversation, the simulation can have positive effects and build empathy
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Three Lessons from Co-designing in a Large Corporation Alwar Pillai
Co-design: empowering users to make design decisions
Challenges
- Timing: a11y often not considered until too late in the design process
- Budget: when retrofitting for a11y, creates cost issues
Perception
- Calling co-design sessions "meetings" appealed to the company culture & made it seem more casual. Team was more open to the idea this way.
Measuring success
- Scope & compliance: how much of product is compliant?
- Shared responsibility: does everyone in the product lifecycle feel a sense of responsibility for a11y?
- Open lines of communication between designers and devs & users with disabilities
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[Dog Barking in Distance] Vanessa Wells
- Remember that subtitles and captions are not the same! Subtitles = just transposing spoken parts. Captions include sound effects.
- Lack of QA for captions is ableism
How to make captions better
- Special training is required - not just anyone can do this -Captioning should be a discipline within media & comms studies
- For sounds: it's significant if it contributes to the purpose of the scene. Background sounds, even if loud, are not always necessary!
- Also, sometimes silence is necessary to point out to create appropriate atmosphere
- Pay attention to idioms and make sure they're spelled / punctuated properly, otherwise it'll trip up the reader
- Fact checking is necessary to make sure sounds are being described properly (sirens vs factory whistles, as an example)
- Be exact about music playing - include song title, artist, and lyrics
- Make sure captions aren't obscured by background
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Creating Accessible React Apps Scott Vinkle
How to set page titles with React
- default behavior: page title not updated and not announced to screen reader
- use document.title property to display name after load (Note: this might be useful info for Hypothesis to provide to publishers / page owners once we had support for SPAs)
Managing focus during page load
- don't use document.getElementById because it doesn't work reliably
- use React Ref API, set focus on the div after the page is fully loaded
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The Dark Side of the Grid Manuel Matuzović
- Both tab order and screen reader order follows DOM order. Changing visual order with CSS grid has no effect on DOM and therefore screenreader. Can make things confusing for keyboard users, users of screen magnifiers.
- Change source order, not visual order
- Test all layouts with keyboard to make sure focus order is as expected
- Don't compromise on semantics for visual order
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SC 1.3.5: More than just autocomplete John Foliot
WCAG 2.1 Requirements:
- 5 examples of websites meeting the requirement, at least 2 meeting AA and 1 meeting AAA
- For each criterion, there needed to be at least 2 examples of how to implement
- Documenting and testing procedures
History of Success Criterion 1.3.5
- Personalization: tailoring aspects of UX to meet preferences or needs of user
- Buttons, controls, links, inputs, can be modified/personalized by user --> First, identify purpose
Technical needs:
- publicly published metadata schema
- means of attaching metadata at the element level
- demonstrate value of attaching the metadata
Personalization task force formed to work on:
- taxonomies for semantics, help & support, and tools
- in the future: implement a "numbers-free" mode for users with dyscalculia
- work is being tracked in personalization-semantics repo
- Seeking feedback on vocab list
- HTML5 autocomplete attribute can be used to hint to user how to or whether to provide information --> provided a taxonomy for 2.1
Extensions for SC 1.3.5
- One that adds commonly used pictograms for certain words
- One that presents a compact list of all autocomplete fields on the page (could help with security concerns re: off-screen inputs)
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Game Accessibility In 2018 Ian Hamilton
- AT: single switch. Anything with just a simple on/off switch. Could be a button, tube to blow into, etc (like what Steven Hawking would use!)
- Consider that cognitive disabilities might be present in addition to physical ones.
- “Games represent access to recreation, culture, and socializing. The difference between existing and living.”
Recent advancements:
- Nintendo Switch introduced color inverting and greyscale options. First time in history every major gaming system has some level of a11y integration!
- Xbox has adaptive controller which allows you to completely remap controls in any way you want.
- GameCritic now includes screenshot of what subtitles look like and screenshot of game controls. Allows someone to know whether they’ll be able to play the game.
- Ubisoft now does FAQs for a11y features in games.
- EA Sports also surfacing a11y info and publishing manuals in screen reader accessible format
- Publish a11y info in advance of game release so AT users can decide whether they’ll buy the game ahead of time.
- Consider addition of “stress free mode” where users can play without worrying about failure (see: Barbarian)
- Madden 18 added haptics (in addition to preexisting announcer feature) to make the game accessible to blind users
- Auto camera tracking removes need to use right joystick when walking
- Customizable subtitles!!!!
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A Primer on the Designer's a11y Responsibility Hala Anwar
- Wireframes are only visual, meaning devs are responsible for figuring out how the product behaves for all non-sighted users
- Designers need to create comparable experience for everyone who uses the product
- Include WCAG-compliant guidelines re: color, contrast, focus states, etc in your design system
- For wireframes, mark up header, main, and footer sections so devs know to use appropriate semantic roles
- Focus order: designers should draw the path of focus order for devs
- Tip: get the NVDA list of elements to see links and buttons out of order, see if it still makes sense
- WAI-ARIA cheat sheet by Karl Groves
- Create a table where each element of the page is listed. Create columns for role, properties, and any state changes
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Microsoft's Inclusive Tech Lab Tara Voelker
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>"Simulators are not for validation. They're for ideation. We don't roleplay disabilities." <br>–@LadieAuPair, #a11yTOConf
— Eric BooOOOooley (@ericwbailey) October 16, 2018
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Accessible interior design for labs: adjustable lighting, high contrasting furniture on dark carpet, and chairs that are sturdy but easy to move #a11yToConf
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Why wait? Let's make virtual reality accessible today! Thomas Logan
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>"Leverage capitalism" for alt text for objects in virtual environments. In 3D marketplaces, objects are labelled for search discoverability; we can reuse these labels in virtual spaces, too, to identify what these objects are. Great recommendation from @TechThomas at #a11yTOConf
— Cordelia (@cordeliadillon) October 16, 2018
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> #a11yTOConf @TechThomas<br>Add alternative text; use the object name from the marketplace. pic.twitter.com/6GpuHgqqAR
— Adrian Roselli 🗯 (@aardrian) October 16, 2018
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>Allow users to disclose and store user preferences, including accessibility considerstions, for 3D excited experiences. @TechThomas, #a11yTOConf
— Eric BooOOOooley (@ericwbailey) October 16, 2018
<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>A-Frame GUI Examples #a11yTOConf https://t.co/Kr6RgLSoPa
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The benefits and dangers of static code linting as a method of evaluating interface accessibility support Jesse Beach
#a11yTOConf @jessebeach shows a function that loops through a pre-defined list of valid ARIA roles as part of a React linting process. pic.twitter.com/BkxdLtotSK
— Adrian Roselli 🗯 (@aardrian) October 16, 2018<script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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Adventures in AOM Rob Dodson
- AOM = accessibility object model. Proposed new collection of JavaScript APIs for web a11y being worked on by Google, Apple, and Mozilla
- Goals: fill in ARIA gaps, expose computed properties, enable a11y for custom-drawn UI
Fill in gaps with ARIA
- Work toward attribute and property parity.
- ARIA is string-based which makes working in JS inconvenient, AOM is working to fix this
- Also, components should have built in semantics, rather than devs needing to remember which to set (& risk having browsers set them incorrectly)
- Read more
- Map actions to DOM events
- Add new InputEvents types (currently designed primarily for text editing; need increment/decrement/dismiss events)
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Everything I learned about interaction design I learned in the senior center computer lab Cordelia Dillon
- CAPTCHA is difficult for elderly people, especially if English isn’t their first language. But also conceptually: if they’re being asked to provide birthday and other personal info, why are they then asked to prove they’re not a robot?
- A lot of tech is created by young, able-bodied people and as a result for them. Who gets excluded?
- 15% of the US population is over the age of 65 as of 2017. Will increase to 22% by 2050. Older adults are a rapidly growing user base
- Many older adults are low income or house less, therefore using older / outdated devices
- Arthritis, low dexterity, tremors among common concerns for older adults
Design principles for older adults:
- Provide more than one way of performing an action (I.e. opening an app: double click, voice command...,)
- Don’t add time-based pressure
- Large tap targets (48px minimum), generous margins between targets, consideration of action order (don’t put trash too close to save!)
- Outline tap targets clearly so users know where to tap (button outlines, form field outlines, etc)
- Allow for user to easily recover from mistakes
- Strong color contrast
- Tooltips help a user know they’re about to interact with the correct thing
- Avoid thin fonts
- Don’t use the same icon for multiple meanings across one app
- Describe functionality and key concept in plain language. Provide as much documentation as possible, but make it contextual
- Make sure navigation patterns are consistent and intuitive
- Half of seniors write down a list of steps for how to use a website. Redesigns, even small ones, can present significant challenges for seniors.
- Provide a reliable experience so users don’t have to re-learn interaction patterns
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From the Field: Levering User Research in your Accessibility Quest Mel Banyard
- Minimum Compliance Approach: using baseline a11y standards as the only method for inclusive design. Example: something can have an 88% WCAG compliance, which is pretty good, but still be unusable to a blind user.
- Actual interviews/user testing with disabled users is necessary in addition to standard compliance work. “Move past the minimum”
- Don’t just diagnose. Consider social context in which tech is used. Example: blind people tend to go with “low tech” solutions like canes and dogs because more high-tech options make things socially awkward for them.
- People consider if a technology can serve them combined with how it will serve them. Does this fit with my sense of self?
- Consider how a product might work in a user’s day-to-day life. That means you need to know what the day-to-day life is like for a user with disabilities.
- When setting success criteria, ask how your definition of success could limit someone’s ability to be successful. Consider remote sessions instead of F2F. Don’t assume lack of eye contact or verbal feedback = disinterest
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Designing and Developing for the Neurodivergent Mind Shell Little
- Neurodivergence = having a brain that functions in a way that diverges from the dominant societal standards of "normal." Covers a large scope of cognitive disabilities: autism, ADHD, and more
- WCAG does not have a lot of guidelines for people with cognitive disabilities bc the landscape of neurodivergent minds is so complex and diverse
Moving content:
- A chat bot that pops up could be helpful to a neurotypical person, but for someone with sensory/distraction issues, it's a barrier
- Sliding text across the screen can pull attention away from subtitles
Subtitles
- Language processing disabilities: some need speech + captions, some get distracted by captions and can't understand speech. Subtitles should be configurable
- If subtitles are paraphrasing rather than exactly as spoken, that's confusing for someone listening and following along with captions
Voice to Text
- Think beyond people with motor disabilities. People for whom English is not a 1st language or people with dyslexia / other cognitive disabilities are helped as well.
- Don't disable voice to text for any reason!!
- Google Docs' VTT works well and is an example to look at.
Working Memory
- Display password option in login form fields (note to self: does H have this??)
- "Remember Me" and password autocomplete reduces cognitive load for those with working memory issues
- Don't block access to password management software like LastPass
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If it’s interactive, it needs a focus style Eric Bailey
- The A11y Project
- Is it beautiful? Is it useful? Let’s not sacrifice the latter in the name of the former... focus styles are regarded as ugly, but many people rely on them!
What makes a good link?
- affordances like color, underline, hover states
- Focus style! Every browser has a fallback state for when they are not specified by author. But these defaults aren’t always good enough for WCAG standards.
- Don’t shift layout when styling for a link state!!
- Check focus styles in high contrast mode to make sure they’re still visually distinct
- Focus-within pseudoclass is useful for tables where cells contain links
- Don’t make assumptions about how people use their devices. If someone is on a mobile device they might still be using a keyboard!
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Sustaining Accessibility – an Enterprise Commitment Sam Chandrashekar
- A11y is not a static state— every time new code is added there is a risk of losing a11y
- Sustaining a11y: what are the risks in maintaining? What are the challenges to keep it? Who has the power to support maintenance of a11y?
Risks to A11y
- Critical employee turnover, when 1 or few people are passionate about a11y and then later leave. Suggestion: promote active internal discussion for problem solving as a means of externalizing employee knowledge.
- Inadequate a11y training. Suggestion: provide usable and useful training resources. Rather than long courses or workshops, consider just-in-time resources (i.e include instructions for installing & configuring a11y software with instructions for setting up dev environment)
- Changes in regulatory requirements. Suggestion: create a11y SMEs in all areas of the organization, not just design or engineering
- Inadequate oversight in product management
- Loss of technology interoperability
Organizational Commitments
- prioritize a11y as a core value
- Support employees in creating knowledge assets
- Invest in infrastructure for knowledge management
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