[Using Sakai] Sakai unusable by blind student

Fri Mar 20 08:08:04 PDT 2015

Yes, that option seems a great idea. Jim told me about that.

And I can only agree with the importance of the accessibility.

Thanks!

2015-03-20 8:02 GMT-07:00 Jeff Davidson <jdavidso at southalabama.edu>:

> Diego:
>
> We have recently requested and a community Jira has been created for
> requiring alt text for images using the Sakai editor to help with
> accessibility compliance.
>
> We are focusing on our course accessibility to ensure all PDFs, videos and
> images are accessible (those things over which we have control beyond Sakai
> itself).
>
> The issue of accessibility will likely become more and more prominent and
> a priority for all universities in the future.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Diego del Blanco Orobitg <
> diego.delblanco.sakai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Marilyn:
>>
>> I'm not expert at all in accessibility, but this that you are commenting
>> is very important.
>> I don't know what images, the user is finding with the alphanumeric code
>> becuase most of the images in Sakai Skin have a normal name... maybe these
>> images has been uploaded by the instructors that created the content. Or
>> maybe they are Sakai images.
>>
>> Anyway, some time ago, for one customer I had, we designed a patch to
>> allow select the skin by user, so a user can have a different skin and view
>> the platform in other way. We did some skins with high contrast and bigger
>> size of the letters. Maybe this idea can go beyond that, and if we were
>> able to to create a skin with a very simplified interface without any
>> images that worked better for the screen readers, and assign it to people
>> that needs that, it would make things easier for all.
>>
>> Review all the sakai images and change the name for something more
>> descritptive and add an "alt" on them surely is something that can be done
>> too and I think it won't need a lot of work.
>>
>> In the other hand, again, one thing is Sakai interface and other is the
>> content that the teacher uploads. Maybe a way to make mandatory the "alt"
>> field when a teacher uploads an image, or/and, some education for the
>> instructors when they create the contents or questions, can help too.
>>
>> About the first solution I proposed some time ago to change skin when you
>> enter with a parameter in the URL,...
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-860  but this was not
>> introduced in the main code. It's an option. I'd like more another option
>> to allow to you, as a user, to select your own skin in preferences. So we
>> can have skins for screen readers, high contrast skins, big fonts skins...
>> or any other thing that helps the people with accessibility problems.
>>
>> I propose the accessibility group to think about this. I think that
>> Sakai, with the new Morpheus skin, has an opportunity to improve this
>> question.
>>
>> Diego
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2015-03-20 6:35 GMT-07:00 Marilyn Dispensa <mdispensa at ithaca.edu>:
>>
>>>  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
>>>
>>>
>>>   --------------------------------------
>>> 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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>>
>>
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