The Royal National College is a Further Education establishment in the United Kingdom
, catering for the needs of over 160 students with a visual disability, delivering academic programmes such as GCSEs, AS & A Levels, NVQs and GNVQs to Music Technology, Performing Arts, Sport and Recreation programmes…
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Instructors want their course materials usable by all their students. Unfortunately, they may inadvertently make their materials harder to access and use because of the way in which they utilize development tools such as WORD, PowerPoint, etc. Fortunately, however, there are some straightforward steps that can greatly improve the usability and accessibility of these course materials…
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Microsoft Office is the most popular authoring tool instructors use for creating and presenting their lecture and other instructional materials for courses they teach. Course management systems like Blackboard become the conduit for these materials to be organized and published to the web for use by students, including students with disabilities …
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Accessibility is not only about designing material for people with a range of learning styles and learning needs. It is also about the issues involved with using Blackboard off site …
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What aspects of the use of Blackboard affect the experience of disabled students in terms of the achievement of their pedagogical objectives? Blackboard, through its strong commitment to compliance with international legislature ...
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Despite the many advantages of multimedia, it remains the case that a lot of the information that learners need comes in the form of extended pieces of text – books, articles, etc. Increasingly, this sort of information is being disseminated electronically, but a lot of what is disseminated electronically is either difficult to read by anyone or inaccessible to some categories of learners...
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Some brief guidelines about creating readable, accessible electronic text are given below, but much more information about eBooks and electronic text can be found at... http://www.techdis.ac.uk/ebooks/Home.htm.
A series of handouts produced by Bruce Ingraham
of Teesside University which can be used for individual reference or
within workshops:- •Using styles to format your work
•Using Word to prepare documents for online dissemination
•Using Word to generate PowerPoint slides...
A series of handouts produced by Bruce Ingraham
of Teesside University which can be used for individual reference or
within workshops:- •Issues
for Discussion
• Exchanging Information between Word and PowerPoint
• Creating Over Head Transparencies (OHTs) and Handouts with PowerPoint
•Preparing PowerPoint Presentations for electronic dissemination...
If you’re wondering where to start when talking with staff about disability and accessibility issues, can I recommend the following websites...
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One of the main disabilities that we see in further education colleges is dyslexia; mild, moderate and severe. Often students arrive at our doors knowing only that they had some difficulties in school. Some then go on to have a dyslexia assessment as part of the college initial screening process. The difficulties they have might include some or all from the checklist below...
There has been some interesting research on the use of specific fonts for ease of reading. The research suggests that fonts which are ‘Sans Serif’ are easier for most people to read, especially when there is a lot of text. This is particularly...
Most people who work in further education have been used to making reasonable adjustments to encourage a wide variety of students to attend and achieve their educational goal. The Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (2002), or SENDA, offers us...
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