Week 13: Activity 26.2: Creating Special Resources
JISC TechDis: Text-only web sites: accessibility savour or a waste of time?
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Quick and easy method |
Segregation of disabled people |
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Good for transcripts |
Solution for blind people not others |
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Conversion also has barriers |
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Complex to maintain two sites |
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Which appears on search? |
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Difficult for people with reading disabilities |
The Speechlet Project (Mullier, 2003)
Allows blind students of Java programming to use existing course material.
Really close to home this one as I have spent hours trying to describe computer screens to students desperately trying to write graphics programs.
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Allows visualisation of graphics |
Students learning material they may never use |
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Easier for lecturers than rewriting course for one student |
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Allows student to cover same material as other students |
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Students learn to use graphical elements that may be needed i workplace |
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Student can work without booking support workers |
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