[Athen] JAWS and Canvas

[Susan Gjolmesli]

Thank you very much.

Susan Gjolmesli

Susan Gjolmesli, Director
Disability Resource Center
Phone: 425-564-2392
www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of John Paul Harris
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 11:28 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS and Canvas

For those of you who are interested, you can sign up for a free Canvas account and test at https://canvas.test.instructure.com/login.

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of John Paul Harris
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:37 AM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS and Canvas

Hi Robert,

I have tested Canvas primarily with NVDA.  It falls in the category of accessible, but not fully 'simple and intuitive' for a screenreader user.  In Canvas most everything is structured as a list.  I can navigate with the "l" key to move from list to list.  On the Canvas landing page, this is the best way to get to the link for Discussions.  The actual discussion page includes a large list to contain the discussion items.  The discussion items are links within a list.  The list is usually very large, because every discussion item has 3 associated links.  At this point I use the Tab key to move to discussion items.

Our Canvas setup includes a nice "skip to content" link on every page that will take you directly to the main list for the page.  Using the "skip to content" link navigating to the discussion list is one-click.  I thought the "skip to content" link was a feature in all Canvas installations.  We did work with IT to modify our Canvas installation.  So, the student's experience might be different.  However, hopefully the suggestions work.

JP

From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:07 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list at u.washington.edu<mailto:athen-list at u.washington.edu>)
Subject: [Athen] JAWS and Canvas

Hi all,

I don't have access to Canvas to test, but I received a question from another list.  A student is having difficulties with the discussion boards.  Any tips?


Robert Lee Beach
Assistive Technology Specialist
Kansas City Kansas Community College
7250 State Avenue
Kansas City, KS  66112
913-288-7671
rbeach at kckcc.edu<mailto:rbeach at kckcc.edu>

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