Lesson ideas

 Intro and context of digital accessibility- universal design and design for all. Legal overview and examples of case law. Physical examples to relate the concept of normal accessibility.

Teach WCAG and principles using personas

Persona - what barriers- impact and example to experience- how to meet it - do this for some core principles. Make it meaningful to a real life persona, do one in detail and offer similar brief examples to reinforce the breadth of how principles are useful to many (perm,temp,situational personas. (Tabbed content in RISE - perm/temp/sit.

Alt, headings, captions, colours and keyboard (separate example as it’s websites - but a good initial demonstration activity to introduce a barrier in web - but then say it’s not just the web that can create barriers) accessibility- some perm, temp, situational personas- but also point out how it benefits all. 

Create e-learning content to support a range of examples for each principle- relate to WCAG, give an example to experience- video overview.

The barrier and impact - the solution and how it helps then how to do it. - start all off with a human persona.

WRITE IT LIKE BBC BITESIZE 

Put all of the learning resources and downloads together as an elearning suite - e.g. an overview of disabilities of sight, hearing, physical, cognitive- then the download to see how many disabilities learners can identify, then digital barriers each disability might face, and the AT they might use. Link out to simulations etc.

Alt, headings, links, captions, use of colour and colour contrast (random others e.g. social media could be added using RNIB video)

Example elearning content:

Persona - use of colour:

Abi is a business student at a college, he is colourblind. He has been given some business data reports to analyse as part of his project work and needs to identify some key statistics as part of his assessment.

His teacher has provided the handouts in colour for all students so they can interpret the data. 

Abi however is struggling to see the different colours on the graph. Instead of seeing blue, green and red, he sees all of them in monochrome. 

Using the images below and seeing the data like Abi does, could you answer the question what are the most popular blahs.

Do flip picture examples (e.g. one side is monochrome and the other is coloured).

When you flip the card to see the images in full colour you can see the information Abi is missing.

Do similar in tabs for situational and printing in black and white, and another for a different context beyond graphs.

How could the graph be better created?

This simple tip could help Abi, but also help all the other students if they could only print in black and white 

Show labelling in excel video guidance and written instructions. - Example excel file to download and copy the video instructions (hands on - how to)

Show images flip of colours with labels, black and white with labels and using patterns instead - explain that now each can be read without relying on just the colours.

Link out to colour contrast simulators - upload your own images and see how people see things differently.

Link out to SilkTide simulator to see how webpages look to those with vision differences (link to how to use instructions or video guidance)

A quick quiz question at the end.


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