What did you find when you ran the WAVE accessibility report on your blog post(s)? What did you expect and what was surprising? Is there anything you will do differently going forward?
I did a wave accessibility report on my last blog, it mentioned that I have a lot of structural point that can be improved, how I lead my text and my paragraphs could be further improved by sorting out information from main to minor ones. In places where I need to put links, in some places links are encouraged, And I had one redundant link. I will try to see if there are redundant links that I need to take out in the future, and further check if there are places where I can sort out ideas that are too small and scattered around. I will group these small scattered ideas under their corresponding main ideas to become better organized. To try to make structures clear, I will bold the questions this time.
Have you used Text to Speech tools before? Did you find it useful? Did you try out some of the different voices? What impact did the different voices have on your ability to absorb information?
yes, I did when I was studying for my final exam. I personally found it to be very useful. I was able to relax and just listen since sometimes after long period of studying my mind is exhausting and that exhaustion can definitely go to your vision as well. listening to stuff allows me to really close my eyes and relax to give my vision a total break while learning the context. And thus I was able to absorb information without being in a continuous state of fatigue after already using my eyes for so long.
What role do you think media and multimedia can play in a learning environment designed with UDL guidelines in mind? Which of the promising practices for text, images and video are in alignment with these guidelines?
definitely it promotes learning capability for people in all age groups, since in the digital era, a lot of the learning is done thru media and multimedia, especially post covid era where so many things have been shifted remotely to learn online, therefore presenting UDL learning guidelines thru multimedia is very important. It is especially useful because its guidelines for diverse learning can be amplified in multimedia because of the diverse technological tools multimedia has to optimally improve the learning environment.
What does inclusive design mean to you?
it means that designing to not only learn for the traditional way for targeted audiences, but consider diverse groups of people with different disabilities, and it is important to know that in creating learning platform we shouldn’t assume a standard version of normality, everyone is different and some learn slower and not so direct as others, we should aim for a learning program that take in consideration for all of the types of people with different learning capacities.
Hi Bruce,
The use of multimedia is widespread in the post-pandemic era. I appreciate how you are taking into account the needs of various groups by using UDL learning guidelines. It is crucial that we design with the learner in mind, not just in multimedia but also in general. If you could elaborate on some text, images, and videos that use inclusion design in real-world settings, that would be great.