Universal design approach

Seale (2006,p.83) defines a universal design approach to be about designing for accessibility, inclusive design, barrier free design or design for all. It looks at design to better serve all users, including both disabled and those who are not disabled. Central to the universal design approach is a commitment that products should not have to [...]

Roles in online learning

Seale (2006) discusses how accessibility is frequently framed as a technical issue, rather than a pedagogical one. Seale (2006, p.69) highlights resistance and negative attitudes from academics in taking responsibility for accessibility. Dix (2001,p.6) argues few have awareness of accessibility issues (usually taken to mean WAI Content Accessibility Guidelines) or how disability impacts on the [...]

Evaluation Methods

After reading Seale’s (2006) guidance on evaluation methods: the first one is not open to me; as I do not come into contact with disabled users  – though this would be a necessity in the ‘real world’. I will assess conformance to checklists and guidelines, for example, WAI and W3C; and also test using assistive [...]

Reflections

        I chose this particular topic, in order, to draw together my learning from the course so far. I chose elements that would focus on the key concerns around creating and delivering online study material. I thought that structure, design and navigation were some important foundation blocks. I referred to many guidelines [...]

Learning Resource

This is a link to the learning resource I have created:- http://www.katharinejewitt.co.uk/H810/index.html

Authoring tools

I’m planning to build my resource in dreamweaver, which does support accessible design; for example, whenever you add an image, video, audio, frames and form objects – it prompts for descriptions – to add an alt-tag. Different tags that can be used eg table summary tag. These are some useful weblinks I will be using: http://www.usabilitynet.org/tools/prototyping.htm (Accessed [...]

Describing images

To carry out an exercise on describing images, I used a resource I made: http://www.katharinejewitt.co.uk/h810/index.html The logo was an image that needed describing to say what it is and I called this “KJH810 Logo”. There is an image for adding the course website to a social bookmarking site and so this was labelled “social bookmarking [...]

Issues with guidelines

My thoughts are that the guidelines work if they are applicable. It really depends on what level of understanding that the guidance is targetted at. Guidelines can help people, but they can also cause confusion. I do think they work if produced with the right person in mind and produced at the right level. Guidelines [...]

Outline plan for a course module on web design

This module is to help develop students’ experience in the creation of material for the Web. This module is to help with the pedagogical design and structuring of learning materials. A clear understanding of the students’ users’ needs is vital in developing effective online material and requires knowledge of how to structure for the Web and [...]

Guidelines

Activity 2.1 Guideline resources   Is the level of detail appropriate? Is the technical level suitable for you in your role? Is the guidance complete?does it provide links to further information? Would your recommend it to someone in your org?   I did not think the level of detail was appropriate in the “Accessible Digital [...]