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Title: Making E-Content Accessible


1
Making E-Content Accessible
  • Lawrie Phipps - TechDis Manager
  • helpdesk_at_techdis.ac.uk
  • Shirley Evans ICT/ILT Task Force
  • se_at_rncb.ac.uk

2
Introduction
  • Defining e-content
  • Legislation
  • Accessibility
  • Usability
  • Content
  • Activity
  • Bringing it all together
  • Taking it forward

3
What is E- Content?
  • Learning objects eg. small, interoperable chunks
    of learning and interactive scenarios
  • Video and audio eg. on-line lectures, digitised
    films
  • Text on-line eg. web pages
  • Links to external web pages
  • Content generated through collaborative tools eg.
    In a discussion board
  • Materials that are not electronic but associated
    with the E-learning process eg. printed materials

4
Legislation
  • Special Educational Needs and Disability Act
  • Is relevant to Higher and Further Education
    because it amends the DDA (Disability
    Discrimination Act) 1995
  • The DDA now includes all aspects of an
    institutions work, from marketing and enrolment
    to examinations and assessment.

5
What does the legislation say
  • Two key phrases in the legislation
  • ...not to treat disabled students less
    favourably, without justification, for a reason
    which relates to their disability and
  • to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that
    people who are disabled are not put at a
    substantial disadvantage compared to people who
    are not disabled in accessing further, higher and
    Local Education Authority-secured education.

6
Case Study 1Less favourable treatment
  • A young woman who is deaf and also has a mobility
    difficulty attends a specialist residential
    college for deaf people. The college is
    organising an outing for the students one
    evening. The young woman has been told that she
    cannot go on the trip because it would not be
    suitable for her because of her additional
    disability. She has been treated less favourably
    in comparison with the other students because of
    her mobility difficulties. This is likely to be
    unlawful.

7
Case Study 2Less favourable treatment
  • A student who is a wheelchair user is treated
    rudely by a member of computing service.
  • The staff member is rude to everybody that day
    his bad treatment of the disabled student is not
    related to the students disability. The disabled
    student has not been treated less favourably than
    other students.

8
Case Study 3Reasonable adjustment
  • A partially deaf student who lipreads is
    attending a Business Studies course. One of her
    lecturers continues to lecture while
    simultaneously writing on the whiteboard. The
    student asks him to stop speaking when he turns
    his back to use the whiteboard so that she can
    follow what he is saying. The student is likely
    to be at a substantial disadvantage if this
    adjustment is not made.

9
Case Study 4Reasonable adjustment
  • A student with restricted growth requests that
    all university student notice boards are lowered
    in height so that he can read the information
    more easily. He is, however, able to read the
    notices without significant difficulty or
    discomfort when the boards are placed at their
    regular height. The students disadvantage
    compared to that of other students is unlikely to
    be found substantial.

10
What does this mean for E-content
  • It is likely that Institutions will have to
  • provide accessible educational services, such as
    Intranets, Virtual and Managed Learning
    Environments and other digital resources
    including student handbooks etc.
  • JISC Senior Management Briefing Paper 15

11
Usability
  • Usability focuses on making software, websites
    and on-line applications or services easy for
    people to use.

12
Accessibility
  • Accessibility focuses on making them equally
    easy for everyone to use, including people who
    may use assistive technologies such as screen
    readers etc.
  • Frontend.com

13
Content 1
14
Content 2
  • Video of student trying to access content
  • In a VLE
  • (Jaws and Blackboard)

15
Content 3 NLN Materials
16
Content 4
  • Trialling the National Learning Network Materials
  • Lessons learned so far-
  • It is easy to make content physically accessible
    if it just a web page
  • It is difficult to make content interactive and
    accessible
  • It is difficult to make content cognitively
    accessible
  • Universal accessibility means plug and play
  • Equivalent access is not necessarily preferable
    to alternative access

17
Support
  • Scenario
  • Imagine the student in the video has enrolled as
    a distance e-learner with your institution. She
    has difficulty accessing and using the VLE and
    the content. A discussion board has been set up
    to co-ordinate support between the content
    developer, the learning technologist, the
    technician and her tutor. Using Post-It notes set
    up a discussion board and highlight the main
    issues and how you are going to address them.
  • 15 mins activity
  • 10 mins feedback

18
Bringing it all together
  • The Law
  • Accessibility
  • Usability
  • Inclusivity
  • Interoperability
  • Support

19
What are you going to do?
  • E-learning does have the potential to to enable
    students with particular needs to engage in
    independent, individualised and self-directed
    learning on equal terms with other students?
  • What do you have to do?
  • What are you going to do?
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