This week we looked at assistive technology and how to make learning more accessible for all learners. We learnt about what accessibility is for different learners and their needs. In one of the videos we watched, there were many different needs that each learner had that they described and their reasons for needing it. This ranged from needing larger text displayed to needing information presented in different manners either auditorily or visually. We also discussed what digital accessibility is and how different websites are either more or less accessible for different learners. How things like contrast, links, screen readers and other factors either increase or limit the accessibility of a website or other digital sources.
We also discussed how making technology more accessible to those who need it also creates a better experience for all learners using these sources.
After having these discussions we each altered the videos that we created in our first in-person class and added captions to them to make them more accessible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQNLyGqhcqE
Another element of technology that we looked at that can make things more accessible is adding alternative text to images that are on our blogs and doing this moving forward so that we can continue to improve our blogs and make them more accessible moving forward.
