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 6th [...]

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 careful [...]

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 media: design guidelines for electronic [...]

Accessible Elements

Reading Seale (2006), I made a list of elements needed to be made accessible:
 

Access to the web and access by everyone (Tim Berners Lee – W3C Director and the inventor of the www)
Access by any technology, for example, computer system, browser or specialised technology (Caldwell et all, 2004; Pearson & Koppi, 2001)
Access in any environment [...]