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the portal for practitioners at all levels within the learning and skills sector in England. Here you can access an unrivalled breadth of resources, inspire innovation and share good practice. With quality improvement at its core, the Excellence Gateway offers you support and advice, and opportunities to participate.
NCAM/Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
Media Access Generator (MAGpie)
Version 2.0.2 (OS X) and 2.0.5 (Windows) are now available
Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two such tools, version 1.0 and 2.0.2 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media.
accesselearning Tutorial: Overview
Access E-Learning is a tutorial of the Georgia Tech Research on Accessible Distance Education (GRADE) project at Georgia Tech.
This tutorial is comprised of 10 modules that offer information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for all students.
Web2Access - Disabilities
This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools.
Each product, site or service described in these pages can be searched or browsed by a specific Activity or the usability/accessibility checks that it passed. The applications have short descriptions and comments regarding their ease of use and functionality. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are wanting to make more use of Web 2.0 services in your e-learning activities, or if you are interested in how Web 2.0 can supplement your existing methods, this section may be useful to you.
JISC TechDis - E-assessment
E-assessment is a vital tool in education. Used to offer a range of creative alternative assessments the learning experience will lead to increased usability and accessibility for a diverse range of students.\n\nE-assessment potentially offers advantages over traditional modes of assessment, including, for example, greater speed of marking, immediate feedback to both learner and assessor, and a more entertaining assessment experience.\n\nThere are a variety of useful discussions, projects, university and college pages and tools available on the web, and the following page will list a selection of resources that will enable you to get started in considering the usability, inclusion and accessibility issues pertaining to e-assessment.
TechDis - Teaching Inclusively Using Technology
Teaching Inclusively Using Technology has five constituent modules. These are:
* Preparing Your Learning;
* Delivering Learning (Lecture / Classroom);
* Delivering Learning (Practical / Fieldwork / Placement)
* Delivering Learning (Online);
* Assessing Learning.
Accessibility in Educational Media - Institute of Educational Technology: The Open University
AEM researches the enabling potential and challenges of new and emerging Web-technologies. As well as research, AEM provides consultancy and web-development support and disseminates its research findings across the OU. The group operates in partnership with Disabled Student Services, which is the first port of call for course teams tackling the access issues of their online course components.
WebAIM: Constructing a POUR Website - Putting People at the Center of the Process
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unless the developers understand the reasons behind the guidelines, they might apply the guidelines incorrectly or ineffectively
WebAIM: Testing with Screen Readers: Questions and Answers
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overall it is better for developers to pay more
attention to the principles and guidelines of accessibility, rather
than to the differences between screen readers. We wouldn't want developers
to design specifically for one brand of screen reader, for example,
if doing so would make the content unfriendly to users of other brands
of screen readers.
“Standards Are Like Sausages” « UK Web Focus
“Standards are like sausages” suggested Charles McCathieNevile at the OzeWAI 2009 conference. “I like sausages” he went on to say “but I’m not keen on exploring too closely how they’re made“.
UK Web Focus | Papers
UK Web Focus: Peer-Reviewed Papers - including many on accessibility in a higher education context
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