Skills for Access

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• How To

  • Allow user control over animated content

    • general advice

  • Avoid colour problems

    • general advice

  • Avoid Specific Frequencies for flickering content

    • general advice

  • Enable audio output of on-screen text

    • in Director/Shockwave
    • in Flash
    • in HTML

  • Enable user customisation

    • in Director/Shockwave
    • in Flash
    • in HTML
    • of Media Players

  • Ensure consistency of display

    • general advice

  • Maximise text readability

    • general advice

  • Optimise for keyboard access (and other non-mouse input devices)

    • in Flash
    • in HTML
    • in Macromedia Director/Shockwave
    • of Media Players

  • Provide audio descriptions for video or animated content

    • general advice
    • in Flash
    • in MAGpie
    • in QuickTime
    • in Real Player
    • in Windows Media Player
    • with Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)

  • Provide text equivalents for audio

    • general advice on captions
    • general advice on transcripts
    • in Director/Shockwave
    • in Flash
    • in MAGpie
    • in QuickTime
    • in Real Player
    • in Windows Media Player
    • with Synchronised Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)

  • Provide text equivalents for graphics

    • in Director/Shockwave
    • in Flash
    • in HTML

  • Use media to enhance text

    • using animation
    • using audio
    • using graphics
    • using video

  • Challenges to Learning

  • Cognitive-related

    • Attention and concentration difficulties
    • Language and comprehension difficulties
    • Memory and recall difficulties
    • Sensitivity to flashing or moving content

  • Mobility-related

    • Motor and/or manual dexterity difficulties

  • Sensory-related

    • Auditory difficulties
    • Visual difficulties

  • Articles

  • All Articles

    • Accessibility Metadata and Learning Objects
    • Multimedia: Enhancing Ability
    • Simple multimedia using Office software
    • The opportunities of multimedia to enhance the accessibility of fieldwork to disabled students
    • The potential of multimedia to enhance learning for students with dyslexia
    • Using accessible video and audio to enhance e-learning for disabled students

  • Case Studies

  • People

    • Annalu - Computer Science lecturer, who has Cerebal Palsy
    • John - a former student, who has Ushers Syndrome
    • Léonie - Accessibility consultant and part-time degree student, who is blind
    • Liz - a PhD student, who is deafblind
    • Natasha - part time MSc student and Project Manager, who has dyslexia
    • TK Vincent - a student of English Language and Linguistics, who is hard of hearing

  • Projects

    • Accessible PowerPoint for developing student understanding of economics
    • Captioning Video for Accessibility
    • Captioning with QuickTime SMIL
    • Creating an Accessible Flash Game for the RNIB
    • Creating simple multimedia using Video, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
    • Designing a dyslexia-friendly multimedia drawing package for architecture students
    • Interactive Markets - The use of Macromedia Flash on the Biz/ed Web site
    • Providing captioned video clips for the Skills for Access web site
    • Somali Health Programmes CD ROM
    • The potential of PowerPoint as an alternative to Flash
    • Using RSS news feeds to deliver timely, easily updated content

  • Multimedia Technologies

  • Animation

    • Director/Shockwave
    • Flash
    • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

  • Audio

    • Audio

  • Graphics

    • Graphics

  • Office Applications and PDF

    • Microsoft PowerPoint
    • Microsoft Word
    • PDF

  • Video

    • QuickTime
    • RealMedia
    • Windows Media

  • Assistive Technologies

  • Alternative input devices

    • Devices that do not require use of the hand
    • Hand-operated

  • Alternative output devices

    • Braille Displays
    • Screen Readers
    • Speech Browsers
    • Text Readers for Sighted People

  • Technology to adjust visual output

    • Operating system/browser-based
    • Specialist software and hardware

  • Disabilities

  • Cognitive and Learning Impaired

    • Specific Learning Difficulties (including Dyslexia)
    • Visual and Aural Sensitivities

  • Mobility Impairment

    • Loss of the use of the Hands
    • Restricted Manual Dexterity

  • Sensory Impairment

    • Blindness
    • Colour Deficit
    • Deaf/hard of hearing
    • Impaired Field of Vision
    • Low Vision

• Philosophy

  • Part 1 : An Approach to designing Accessible Multimedia for e-learning
  • Part 2 : Multimedia can enhance accessibility of learning
  • Part 3 : An approach to ensuring optimum accessibility of multimedia

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