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(Floe) Notes on Inclusive Learning Design Handbook content

(Floe) Notes on Inclusive Learning Design Handbook content

Aug 19, 2014

On the creation of content:

On retrieving of content:

  • Matching/discoverability of relevant content, relevant consumability

Lessons from our tools:

  • Rich, multi-layered, accessible video player

    • Ease of operability by different input modes (mouse, keyboard)

    • Customizability of UI (UI size for operability, contrast and text size for perceivability)

    • Layering of content alternatives

      • Standard A/V track

      • Audio descriptions (audio narration of what's happening visually on the screen)

      • CC and transcript

    • Portability of content--video on standard platforms, but also other exports (i.e., downloadable/printable transcript)

    • Scannable video: break the linear nature of video (and help to consume at one's own pace)

      • Interactive transcript (and portable transcript)

      • Scrubber with frame preview and caption

  • Authoring environment

    • Gentle prodding of author to remind them to add content alternatives for every kind of non-text content added

    • Adjustable UI size, both in authoring and presentation

  • Universal Subtitles

    • Accessibility guidelines and lessons in authoring captions (both design of authoring environment & for content producers)

  • UIO

    • Adjusting presentation of content to be more easily perceivable to the learner (make learning possible)

    • Text adjustments: size, colour contrast (both strong and mild, the latter to cater to photosensitivity), style (some type is more readable than others, both generally speaking and also for specific individuals; cite dyslexia type), line spacing

    • Increased operability by making things more easily clickable by mouse (Fitts' law)

    • Condensing text/summarizing headers (Hick's law)