[Contrib: Evaluation System] ADA compliance and EVALSYS

[Ellen Yu Borkowski]

Gonzalo

Thanks for the explanation.  In our case, we are using questions that have Lickert-like scales and the student is complaining because JAWS cannot read the text associated with each radio button.  I don't know if there is an "easy" way to address this as we are using the Lickert-like scales for most of our questions, but with different labels for some of them.

Any thoughts on this?

Ellen

On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:41 AM, Silverio, Gonzalo wrote:

> Hi Ellen.
> 
> I did a fairly extensive accessibility check of EVALSYS three years ago and checked the major user facing screens again this year. Without more details it would be hard to know what is going on here. Important information would consist of:
> 
> 1) JAWS version
> 2) EVALSYS version
> 3) Specific element types that the user had problems with
> 
> Quite a bit of the work I did on EVALSYS-635, EVALSYS-426, EVALSYS-425, etc. involved rearranging the elements so that labels and inputs were consonant. In order to do this with some of the elements I had to resort to scripting, which would need a newer version of JAWS to work.
> 
> Some elements do not have labels - or if they do have a label, no text inside of it. This is by design (Lickert-like scales, for example just have a left and right label). Other elements like grouped elements did not not have explicit labels till I re-instrumented them recently. In any case - more information is needed, I would gladly take a look.
> 
> 	-Gonzalo
> 
> On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Ellen Yu Borkowski wrote:
> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> We've just finished our summer school evaluations and have had a student complain about ADA issues.  I am emailing the list since I was not aware of any ADA issues with EVALSYS, but apparently there is.  Here's is what was sent in:
>> 
>> "I am a blind and hearing impaired graduate student. I use JAWS as a  screen reader on my computer. I could not complete the course evaluation by myself because JAWS could not find any text associated  with the radio buttoms. I had to have a sightd person read me the text and option selection in order to complete it. "
>> 
>> Anyone else aware of this issue?  Has anyone tested EVALSYS with JAWS?
>> 
>> Ellen
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Ellen Yu Borkowski
Director, Academic Support
Office of Information Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-2411
301.405.2922 (o)
301.830.0196 (c)
301.405.0720 (f)
Email: eyb at umd.edu
http://www.oit.umd.edu/as/staff/Ellen.html