Language and comprehension difficulties

Overview of the challenge

Where an e-learning resource includes the presentation of textual content, and requires students to read, understand and act on on-screen written information, difficulties may be encountered by students who have trouble with reading and comprehension.

Meeting the challenge

Meeting this challenge when using multimedia:

Present the resource's text in a way that makes on-screen reading as easy as possible.

Be as consistent as possible both in the design, layout and functionality throughout the resource, and in concepts and terminology used.

Allow users to customise the visual display of content, for example through changing text/background colour combinations or changing text size or font.

Make sure that, where textual information is provided, it can either be accessed and read by text-to-speech software, or is available in audio format.

Explore using different forms of multimedia to enhance textual information, such as video or animated illustrations, graphics such as photographs, diagrams and mindmaps.