[NABS-L] Is Top Hat Accessible?

[nspohn0 at gmail.com]

Hi Kendra,

 

Thanks for sharing, lots of helpful info there. I’ll have to brush up on NVDA because I am a Jaws user.

 

 

From: Kendra Schaber <kschaber at my.chemeketa.edu> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 12:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Is Top Hat Accessible?

 

Hi! 

I’m currently taking Spanish where I use Top Hat almost every day I’m taking such classes since I’m in the middle of a 2 year course serries. In Top Hat, I have found that it’s most accessable with NVDA, not JAWS. Also, if there are immmages with vocabulary words, they are not likely accessible. So, if you get any vocab words, try getting them in a list or a more accessible form. Match items where you are suposed to drag and drop are either not accessible or have obscure commands. I’ve not had luck with them whenever I’ve run into them in Top Hat. I’m not expecting you to get any questions where you have to listen but in case you do, from my experience, Top Hat was hooked up to YouTube which is accessible with NVDA while on Top Hat. I warn you, it’s rather clunky so if you get any questions where you either write or have multiple choice, you’ll have to use navigation commands or spend more strokes up and down between the question and the answer area than in some websites or apps. If it’s K sensitive, you’ll be marked incorrect in less everything including spelling, grammor, punctuation ECT are used. I highly don’t recamend the Top Hat app because it’s not accessible hardly at all on an iphone. I don’t know if Android users have better luck with accessability to the Top Hat mobile app. Most blind people who I know of who’s used it; all in their own Spanish classes, have not particularly enjoyed it. If I were to rate it; it would get 3 of 5 stars on the desktop website and only 1 of 5 stars on the mobile app. I hope this helps!!! 

Kendra  

 

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 17:45 nspohn0--- via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org <mailto:nabs-l at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Hi All,



I am taking Microeconomics this summer and the professor uses something
called "Top Hat". Students use this website to access the textbook and
review questions. Has anyone had experiences with Top Hat and is it
accessible? 



Thank You,

Nick 

P.S. if this message came in twice I apologize but for some reason my first
one was waiting for moderator approval. 





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