[nfbcs] online education

[Jude DaShiell]

Why not go onto these pages and enable graphics speech and make a 
catalog of the graphics set beside what the graphic does when you 
hit the enter key on it, when you use the jaws mouse keys to select 
and double click it, and if you can get a mouse user to use your 
computer what happens when a physical mouse is used.  Just for 
over-kill, why not invest in a trackball and try the same cataloging 
with the trackball?  You'll find out what devices do and don't work 
that way and I suspect some form of electronic pointing device is 
needed to make these pages work.  A trackball handshakes differently 
and even though jaws doesn't support it may still make one of those 
web pages work for you.  If you try this using a trackball along 
with all the other cataloging I'd be interested to read your results 
and I may not necessarily be the only one interested in this list 
either.

wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> thanks for approving my membership to this group.
> 
> I'm a psychologist from Germany with a strong interest in accessibility, human-computer interaction and of course computer science in general. I'd like to get acquainted with the basics of computer science, preferrably by using massive open online courses. 
> 
> I already subscribed to a course on Udacity but couldn't use it properly with Jaws 10 or NVDA and Firefox 21. At Udacity, you are presented with short, educational video sequences and can answer a multiple choice question before watching the next video. After having answered a question, I wasn't able to navigate to the next question. I could only skip back and re-answer the question. So there is actually no way of gradually taking the course. I wrote to Udacity but didn't get a valuable reply. They don't seem to care for accessibility that much, especially as I found an entry in the forum by another Jaws user that wasn't able to use the site properly.
> 
> I also tried Coursera but couldn't even enroll into a course.
> 
> 
> The combination of watching videos and answering questions is a way of communicating knowledge I consider to be rather useful, as you have a mixture of activity and passivity which makes learning not as "boring" as just reading a book.
> 
> iTunesU also sounds pretty exciting, but the lectures I found so far only allowed you to watch videos. There was no section to test your knowledge. This is a real pity, as I'd definitely enjoy an educational app for studying on the go. 
> 
> Any information on MOOCs accessible with Jaws (10) / NVDA or educational apps for the iPhone would be appreciated.
> 
> Looking forward to your replies.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Alexandra
> 
> 
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