[nobe-l] Online language teaching

[Humberto Avila]

Hello:

I have used Canvas before when I studied at my university. In my experience, canvas works very very well with screen readers, JAWS, VoiceOver and NVDA. they are beginning to implement a lot of the accessibility guidelines an supports available and that is ver encouraging to see. They are constantly improving.

Is there any particular feature of Canvas that you would use?

I don't have experience with blackboard other than their Collaborate app used for video conferencing, which to me looked to be pretty accessible with VoiceOver on an iPhone.


Best,

Humberto

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On 5/17/2019 10:49 AM, TaraPrakash via NOBE-L wrote:

Hi. How does  accessibility with  jaws on blackboard compare with that of canvas?

Sent from my iPhone



On Apr 5, 2019, at 11:31 PM, sarah--- via NOBE-L <nobe-l at nfbnet.org><mailto:nobe-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Hi Luis.
I am not familiar with any of these sites. I am teaching at the university level using Canvas. I have developed my courses from the ground up using HTML. If you are working with sites that do not use standard courseware, e.g. Canvas, Moodle, etc, you will have to test accessibility yourself. If the site is accessible to you, you can show text on-screen and you will need to develop a method for doing this that works for you. I tell students in my opening lectures that I am blind and that they are welcome to ask questions. In my situation, I feel that this is a vital piece of info. I am teaching Hebrew and Greek, and the characters are very different from English. If the students are confused by diacritics, sometimes they ask by saying "the one that looks like the sideways comma" and I have to know what that is.
I am happy to talk further if you wish.


Sarah Blake LaRose
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http://www.sarahblakelarose.com

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Subject: [nobe-l] Online language teaching

Hello there

My name is Luis Cruz.
I got a bachelor’s in linguistics last year. It was mainly Spanish linguistics. I’m interested in the language teaching field. I’m planning to study a master’s degree in language teaching. However, I’d like to get a job before that, in order to get some experience and money.
So I’d like to teach through internet. I know a few people (sighted) who are teaching English from their home. So I thought it could be convenient for me. I’d teach mainly Spanish, which is my native language, and maybe in the future also English, my L2.
Therefore, I’d like to know if someone has experience teaching foreign languages through internet.
I want to know:
Which websites are the most accessible, the most convenient for a totally blind teacher? To get students, payments and the like. For
example: Italki, Verbling, Verbalplanet… What are some technicques that you could share? How do you introduce yourself to your student and inform him/her that you’re blind? What tools do you use for your lessons? How do you show text to them? What do you do to replace visual communication? I mean, since we can’t see, if we have trouble to understand something that the student is trying to say, but doesn’t know the words, we can’t ask the her/him to try to explain it with body language.
I’m might be asking silly questions, but I have 0 experience with this. Currently I’m teaching basic English to the blind. And I taught Spanish to sighted people during my degree.

Thanks in advance for your help

Best regards
Luis Cruz

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