{"id":3366,"date":"2014-04-16T12:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2014-04-16T12:22:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T11:22:14","slug":"designing-accessible-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/04\/designing-accessible-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing accessible web pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next meeting of the WebLearn User Group (<strong>Monday 7 July 2014<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.it.ox.ac.uk\/detail\/TOVD\" target=\"_blank\">booking required<\/a>) will focus on two issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Writing accessible web pages<\/li>\n<li>Copyright of learning materials<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2014\/04\/assistive-956x256.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3367\" alt=\"assistive-956x256\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2014\/04\/assistive-956x256-300x80.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Disability Resources and Services (DRS) unit at\u00a0<a href=\"www.temple.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Temple University <\/a>in Philadelphia USA provides many resources, videos\u00a0and additional helpful information about students with disabilities. Have a look at their website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/studentaffairs\/disability\/\">http:\/\/www.temple.edu\/studentaffairs\/disability\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that &#8220;Careless use of HTML tables to provide a columnar page layout can result in confusing presentation of information in non-graphic browsers, where the effect might be of reading from left to right the first line of each column of a newspaper, then the second line of each column, and so on&#8221; (Sloan, 2002).<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>attached guide from DRS\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/files\/2014\/04\/web-accessibility_Temple-University-USA1.pdf\">web-accessibility_Temple University USA<\/a>) provides information and a collection of resources about Web Accessibilty, including how to check the accessibility of the web pages you want students to use.<\/p>\n<h4>Reference:<\/h4>\n<p>Sloan, D. (2002). Creating accessible e-learning content. In L. Phipps, A. Sutherland &amp; J. Seale, Access All Areas: disabilitly, technology and leanring. JISC TechDis Service and ALT. Available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/resources\/detail\/evidencenet\/Access_All_Areas-Disability_Technology_and_Learning\">http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/resources\/detail\/evidencenet\/Access_All_Areas-Disability_Technology_and_Learning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next meeting of the WebLearn User Group (Monday 7 July 2014\u00a0&#8211; booking required) will focus on two issues: Writing accessible web pages Copyright of learning materials The Disability Resources and Services (DRS) unit at\u00a0Temple University in Philadelphia USA provides &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/2014\/04\/designing-accessible-web-pages\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-weblearn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-new.it.ox.ac.uk\/adamweblearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}