Accessibility in online learning
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Universal Design for Learning - Barriers to Accurate Assessments
There are many barriers to creating a truly effective assessment. First off, we assess for different reasons, so the assessment should reflect the intented purpose. Are you testing to determine the effectiveness of your curriculum or possibly your delivery? Are you testing to determine the students understanding of the concept/topic or whether they can actually perform a certain task or skill? Are you testing to compare students acheivement levels across certain platforms likes schools, districts or states?
So first start by determining the intention of your assessment. Once you have factored that in, you can start to look at other barriers that will skew your results. Individual learning differences can create a barrier alon with accessibility to the information in the assessment. Motivation of the student is also a consideration. Before developing your tests, make sure you consider all of these factors so that the results will reflect your intended outcomes.
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Keystroke equivalents
Accessibility does not need to be a complex process/task. The primary assistive technology tools (screenreaders and voice recognition) use keystroke equivalents to navigate through information and prompt for reading. If you make sure that all of your elearning navigation has a keystroke equivalent, and doesn't provide access to the information/button only by mouse click, then the assistive technology will do the rest for you!