[nabs-l] Accessibility of Edmodo

[Greg Aikens]

I’m glad to hear you have had success. While I wouldn’t call my experiences trying to use edmodo a nightmare, I certainly wouldn’t say it is easy to use either. I suspect some of that may be my browser etc. Which browser were you using with Edmodo? It seems to behave differently in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. I can see different aspects of the platform using each browser and none of them seems to be more complete than the others. 

Specific questions I have: How can I locate the link/button to open my settings? I was trying to change my school the other day and had to get another teacher to just click on it for me.
Also, is there a way to hide all of the enter new post, alert, assignment, etc.? Is there a way to quickly navigate down to the posts from my groups? How can I find the box to search for particular groups that other teachers have set up? I have my codes but can’t find the box to put them in.

When I look at the make a new post box, it has the box, then the field for recipient and possibly subject, but none of those boxes are labelled. Also, after the cancel or send buttons, I see a message that says, “Your message was sent successfully, which is repeated under each kind of message, alert, assignment entry box. This is perplexing because I have not made any posts/sent any messages/created any assignments. That makes me think that my browser isn’t playing nice with the javascript or whatever they are using to write the page. 

I’ll give it a try on the iPad and see if I have more success there. 

Thanks for any tips you can give.

-Greg



On Aug 9, 2014, at 5:46 PM, Bridget Walker via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> I have had no problems with edmodo and I use jaws 15. I've used it as a student and a teacher. I know that sounds weird but,nim an education major and got to test the pages out. I found it was much better than schology. I think I would recommend ebackpack if edmodo does not work. 
> HTH
> Bridget
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Aug 9, 26 Heisei, at 4:44 PM, "Bill K. Dengler via nabs-l" <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Edmodo is and has been a huge accessibility nightmare on Windows with NVDA,
>> OS X with Voice Over, Ubuntu Gnu/Linux, iOS, and Android.
>> Basically, don't even try as the Edmodo devs don't seem to care, use a
>> different LMS if possible or work with teachers to have files sent directly
>> to the student.
>> 
>> Bill
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Greg Aikens via
>> nabs-l
>> Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 9:54 AM
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Edmodo
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> Are any of you using Edmodo for any of your classes? I'm teaching at a new
>> school this year and they use it for all kinds of stuff. Both I and the
>> blind students I teach will need to get familiar with using the platform. On
>> first glance, it doesn't seem as accessible as it could be. When I click on
>> items, I rarely get the result I expected, but maybe I just don't know what
>> I'm doing yet.
>> 
>> I would love to hear from any students who have been using Edmodo
>> successfully.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Greg
>> 
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