[nfbcs] online education

[Alexandra]

What are you trying to tell me? I can't use a mouse or a trackball and
am not willing to get some extra devices I actually don't need. Why
not make a website accessible in the first place?

By the way, there's a Coursera app for the iPhone. Anyone tried this
already? Results concerning accessibility could be interesting.
Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013 um 00:41 schrieb 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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