1.
What are
three types of disabilities that students in a course you create might have?
Explain the accommodations that you would need to provide for each.
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of disabilities
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Example
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accommodations
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Visual |
Color Blindness, Low Vision – No Vision |
Screen reader. Use altage to describe image and graphs. Use clear changeable Font
Avoid Flickering Images, Fast Animations
High Contrast.
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Auditory
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deafness and hard of hearing |
Provide text transcript for video and podcast. |
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Motor |
In inability to use hand, hand tremors, slow
muscular movement. |
Use keyboard control instead of mouse, Internal
navigation to skip through long sections, user |
2. According to the text, what is the percentage
of the population that has a visual, auditory or physical limitation? How does
that compare to other sources for this information. (Please list at least one
other source you found.)
According
to the text one out of five individuals has vision, hearing, or physical
limitations.29% of family in The United
States have at least one family member with disability. Almost 7.2% of student
entering higher education has some kind of disability.
The statistic
that I looked at almost gives same percentage with a minor different.
· Of
the 53.9 million school-age children 5 to 17, about 2.8 million were reported
as having a disability in 2010.
· Across
the states, the percentage of metro area children with disabilities who were
enrolled in public schools ranged from 76.5 percent to nearly 100 percent.
· According to data from the most recent NPSAS, about
8% of master’s students and 7% of doctoral students in academic year 2007-08
had some type of disability
http://www.cgsnet.org/data-sources-graduate-students-disabilities
3. Identify three factors other than the actual
disabilities that exist in your student population that influence how an
institution or a course creator is required to address ADA in an online course.
1.
The low factor:
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation ACT of 1973 states that: "No otherwise
qualified person with a disability in the United States… shall, solely by
reason of …disability, be denied the benefits of, be excluded from
participation in, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or
activity receiving federal financial assistance.
2.
It’s a matter of fairness and respect. People
with disabilities have the same rights as others, including the right to fully
participate in community life and attend educational organizations. Everybody
has a right to live as normal a life as possible.
3.
Learning Access for people with disabilities improves learning access
for everyone.
Assistive
technology is a term used to describe hardware devices and its related software
that designed to help people with disability overcome the problems that may
they encounter when attempting to view a web page. For example, voice activated
mouse, voice recognition software, read and Write
gold which is comprehensive literacy software with features
such as text-to-speech with highlighting, word Prediction while typing, study
skills for organization and research, scanning documents, E-Books and Apps - there are Apps for
accessing digital books such as VoiceDream and iBooks, as well as many free e-book and
audiobook options. Read textbooks for school or books for pleasure. Apps can be
utilized with accessibility features such as voice-over, text to speech, zoom/ magnification,
highlighting, definitions, annotations, font style and color selection, large
text. There are iPad and iPhone Apps for all abilities and disabilities, and
all subjects of learning.
5.
Identify and explain two different ways to check a webpage to ensure that it
meets the needs of disabled students.
There
are a number of website and a number of tools axis to checking website for
disability access compline.
§ There are website that help to gain insight
into whether the website is disability friendly or not. An example of this
website is Vischeck where you can view example of how things appear on a
webpage to someone who is color blind. Web AIM is another example, it provides
simulations that allow a user to see how individual with no or little vision.
§ There are existing tools that allow user to
evaluate an existing website for disabilities access compliance. Bobby is an
online evaluation tool. The web site accept website URL and produce a report
that rates the site’s compliance with disability access.
6. Identify two types of presentations used in
online courses (for example, podcasts, PowerPoint’s, Videos, Slide Shows, etc.)
and that you might use and explain how you can ensure that each is ADA
compliant.
I would like to use podcast and video
presentation. To make sure they are ADA compliant:
§ Podcast:
1. I will provide a written transcript as a tagged text file. I will match
the podcast as a web page with links to the audio (or video) files and links to
the text files. I might match podcast as a web page with FLASH (YouTube style)
video that includes synchronized closed captioning.
§ PowerPoint presentation, I will contains the
options to change font size and color. And I will limit the number of line
appear on screen from two to four line. I will insure picture and graph have a
good resolution. . I might incorporate captions to
videos or podcast.
7. Develop a course usability checklist that is
appropriate for your anticipated needs. Use the example provided in the text as
a starting point and explain your modifications.
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course
usability checklist
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Navigation
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Main navigation is easily
identifiable
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yes
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no
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Navigation labels are clear
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3
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Links are consistent & easy
to identify
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4
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Site search is easy to access
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5
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Number of buttons/links is
reasonable
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Appearance
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fonts are clear and easy to read
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Color are not distractible
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There are alternative options for text
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9
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The sound quietly is clear
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Styles & colors are consistent
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Accessibility
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Site and material load‐time is reasonable
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Document print is ok
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Easy to find how to get help
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Screen Reader availability
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content
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Several type of online material
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Tutorial easy to use
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Calendar easy to use
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Online test easy to take
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