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H810: Week 13 : Activity 26.2

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Week 13: Activity 26.2: Creating Special Resources

JISC TechDis: Text-only web sites: accessibility savour or a waste of time?

Pro

Con

Quick and easy method

Segregation of disabled people

Good for transcripts

Solution for blind people not others

 

Conversion also has barriers

 

Complex to maintain two sites

 

Which appears on search?

 

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.

Pro

Con

Allows visualisation of graphics

Students learning material they may never use

Easier for lecturers than rewriting course for one student

 

Allows student to cover same material as other students

 

Students learn to use graphical elements that may be needed i workplace

 

Student can work without booking support workers

 

 

 

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