Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Week 9 Activity 3.1 - Using Guidelines (Accessibility Lesson Plan)

Learning outcomes

To understand disability in an online environment
Awareness of assistive technologies
Develop skills and learn techniques for providing accessible content

A list of topics to cover

Difficulties encountered by disabled students (Hearing, Visual, Physical, Cognitive)
Assistive Technologies to assist disabled students (Screen Readers, Screen Magnifiers, Navigation Tools)
Basic Web Accessibility including:
- Page layout and navigation
- Accessible Text
- Accessible Graphics
- Accessible Sound and Video
- Accessible Interactive Media


Resources that you would use

Disability Simulators
Experimenting with Assistive Technology
Comparison of Accessible and Inaccessible content

Which method of teaching

F2F group session with online resources used within the session and available for review after the course.

The length of time it would take

One full day professional development session with the morning focused on understanding and experiencing accessibility issues for learning objectives 1 and 2 and the afternoon spent practicing creating accessible online content for objective 3.

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