Skills for Access

Author

Alistair McNaught

Key technology

Microsoft Word; Microsoft Powerpoint; audio; video; graphics; MP3.

Specific Issues/Key Terms

Using audio and video to enhance text; interactivity; e-learning; supporting learners with dyslexia.

Project Aim

Alistair gives an overview of the project aim - encouraging people involved in teaching and learning to use 'everyday' software to quickly create engaging multimedia learning resources.

Technology Used

Alistair goes on to give a series of easy to produce and accessible multimedia enhancements to teaching.

In the first example, he shows how a videoclip produced by students enhances their understanding.

In this example, Alistair describes how to include blind students in a video-enriched teaching situation.

Here, Alistair demonstrates how combining image and voiced narrative on screen can enhance the learning experience for a dyslexic student.

In this example, Alistair demonstrates how to add a recorded voiceover to a dense piece of text, using Word, to assist dyslexic students, and those with English as a foreign language.

Alistair describes some principles of when to apply accessibility to learning resources and when not.

In this example Alistair demonstrates the benefits of applying text and sound rollovers to an image in Powerpoint.

Accessibility Design Objectives

Project success

Reflections