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From: Jonathan Cohn
Date: Oct 23, 2018 8:50AM

A large number of the more complex training courses that I have viewed use Collaborate and/or Animate from Adobe to create Power Point like slides that have any item spoken. These courses tend to be usable with a little effort by keyboards only users, but certainly are not friendly to the screen reader experience. Does anybody have suggested tools or techniques for making e-learning meet WCAG AA criteria?

Need to have the following features:
1. Speaker with closed captioning optional.
2. Animations with descriptive text that is read by the screen reader or an audio track and is synchronized with the animation. U"User moves pointer to the red button labeled block and clicks it. He then enters users and presses return."
3. Ability to simulate a small portion of computer interactions so that tests of knowledge can be performed.

Thanks,

Jonathan

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 10:33 AM, Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Mikolaj,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> They say to treat them like e-learning courses.
>
> Dona
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 10:27 AM Mikołaj Rotnicki < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> In my opinion if you access this e-Learning courses via web (web browser)
>> they should be treated like websites/webapplications in terms of
>> accessibility check.
>>
>> Do your developers suggest how you should treat them? Like what?
>>
>> Regards
>> ---
>> Mikołaj Rotnicki
>>
>>
>> wt., 23 paź 2018 o 16:18 Dona Patrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> > napisał(a):
>>
>>> 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
>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>> >> >> >> >>
> > > >