Read Guidelines for Accessible Testing and Assessment (IMS Global Learning Consortium, undated).
These are similar to some of the guidelines that you looked at in Block 2, but they also include much more discussion of teaching and learning.
- How far do the points made in these guidelines match the points discussed in the previous activity?
The points raised here do not only match but add something more to the previous activity as far as the two broad classes of assessment and accessibility requirements that differ, i.e. low-stakes assessment and high-stakes assessment.
- Which staff role do you think these guidelines would be most useful for in your context?
I believe that it can be used mostly from technical staff but also from academics. It is not so difficult to understand what it says but in a way, if they can work together technical staff with academic staff they can achieve great things!
- Which guidelines that you looked at in Block 2 would be helpful for a web developer in addition to these?
- Berke, J. (2007) Accessibility – Web Video Captioning Technologies: Making Web Video Accessible [online], About.com: Deafness, http://deafness.about.com/ cs/ accessibility/ a/ webvideocc.htm
- Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) (undated) World Wide Web [online], http://www.rnid.org.uk/ howwehelp/research_and_technology/ communication_and_broadcasting/ world_wide_web/
- Taylor, M. and Colwell C. (2010) Preparing Accessible Documents [online], OU Knowledge Network, The Open University,http://kn.open.ac.uk/ public/ document.cfm?docid=9056
- University of Wisconsin (2008) Accessibility: Screen Readers and the Web [online], http://www.doit.wisc.edu/ accessibility/video/ screen_readers.asp
- W3C (2010) WAI Guidelines and Techniques [online], http://www.w3.org/ WAI/ guid-tech.html
Write a paragraph or two in your notes reflecting on these questions.