[Using Sakai] Sakai unusable by blind student

[Marilyn Dispensa]

Hi everyone,


A blind student on campus has been sharing his experiences with various technologies.  He says Sakai is extremely difficult to use and has the disability office take content from Sakai site and deliver to him separately.  I didn't get much specifics but when using JAWS he says there are many images that have a long alphanumeric file name and unless he memorizes those numbers, he can't navigate. He said it took 3 hours to take a 12 question quiz.


I've noticed that Sakai Project has accessibility efforts https://sakaiproject.org/accessibility

And the wiki actually talked a bout


T<https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=82250209>here also seems to be an accessibility working group.

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/2ACC/Accessibility+Working+Group?

It seems like there is some testing done, but it is unclear about the completeness of that effort.


I'm curious if anyone has any experience with Sakai and actual visually impaired students. If he agrees, I might try to record his experience and share it  with the community.

Maybe there is a user issue or maybe there's a way to go on this.

Marilyn


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Marilyn Dispensa
Instructional Technology Coordinator
Information Technology Services
Ithaca College
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY
607-274-3647
mdispensa at ithaca.edu
http://www.ithaca.edu/its/iss
@indispenzable

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