EASI Free Webinar: A Model for Accessible LMS Discussion Boards
Monday June 3: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern
Presenters:
1. Hadi Rangin, Information Technology Accessibility & Collaboration
coordinator
Disability Resources & Educational Services
University of Illinois
2. Michael McKelvey:
Coordinator of Engagement Technology & New Media, Office for Mathematics,
Science, and Technology Education,
College of Education, University of Illinois
Despite significant improvement in overall accessibility of various
Learning Management Systems in the past years, we have noted little or no
noticeable progress in the accessibility of the discussion board/forum. A
discussion forum remains one of the most complicated and difficult tools
for learners with disabilities to use effectively. In response, we decided
to create a rough prototype of a more accessible discussion forum, one that
draws on our experience and knowledge as accessibility and instructional
technology/design specialists, and uses our collective understanding of how
various LMS systems have approached this component.
Our suggested design attempts to provide solutions for many of the
perennial, cumbersome accessibility/usability issues that affect LMS
discussion forums. Perhaps the most important of these solutions addresses
their most fundamental function of organizing and grouping forums, topics,
threads, and messages in such a way that all users, including assistive
technology users, can easily identify a desired object/location, navigate
to it, and interact effectively with it.
Register now for the Webinar on this ground-breaking model accessible
discussion board
Monday is ALMOST here!!
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm/#june
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It's never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot
Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve
Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students
with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010
http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html
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