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From: Dona Patrick
Date: Oct 23, 2018 8:17AM

Good Morning,

I'm being asked, more and more often, to test the accessibility of
e-learning courses. I've been treating them like Web applications which
have turned up many accessibility issues but the developers are pushing
back saying I cannot treat them like Web sites or applications.

For example one module has links that open small HTML windows that define
the word that was the link. I'd expect the next down arrow to take me to
the definition, but it takes a few down arrows to get to the definition. I
have failed this for "reading order". The developer tells me that it is
impossible to fix because of the software they are using.

Another example is the fact that there is no way to hide extraneous text
from a screen reader while using the arrow keys. So an image might have
text which is read out of context after or before the alt text is read for
an image. This seems wrong to me.

Can anyone provide me a resource for how to test e-learning courses for
accessibility?

Thanks,

Dona