[Athen] Announcement - Free Online Course Accessibility MOOC

Christopher Aldin christopher.aldin at blackboard.com
Thu Sep 28 13:05:33 PDT 2017


Thank you for your response and feedback, Leyna, it is very much appreciated. I took some time to discuss with Marlene and Aaron and wanted to quickly speak to your points below.

The MOOC has been designed to be accessible to as wide of an array of users as possible. With this in mind, the course and its content was designed with the use of ARIA, captions, audio descriptions and other enhancements. We have however validated the contrast and heading issues you noted on the landing page that hadn’t been addressed and expect to have those resolved very soon.

We have also validated the keyboard access issue on the account creation page on the underlying Moodle platform (used for this MOOC). We’ve reported the issue for the standard create account page to Moodle HQ to find a resolution (for which you can find the ticket here in case anyone else has experienced the same - https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-60256). During testing it was noted that the issue may not be present in Firefox, so pending further validation we may be able to provide additional instruction to get around this until a fix is identified.

Please feel free to reach out to Marlene and Aaron off-list should you have any other issues or any specific questions we can help with.

Thanks again!

Chris

Christopher Aldin
Product Marketing Manager - Accessibility, Blackboard Inc.
O: 317-217-6452 | www.blackboard.com


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Leyna Bencomo <lbencomo at uccs.edu>
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Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 12:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Announcement - Free Online Course Accessibility MOOC

I tried creating a new account using the Blackboard page. Couldn’t do it without a mouse. The opening page “The Accessibility MOOC” has incorrect heading hierarchy and contrast errors. Is this MOOC supposed to be accessible?

Leyna Bencomo
Assistive Technology Specialist
Office of Information Technology
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway, EPC 215
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 3:39 PM
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Subject: [Athen] Announcement - Free Online Course Accessibility MOOC

All,

A new MOOC was recently developed with Marlene Zentz and Aaron Page and hosted by Blackboard which may be of interest to many of you. The Accessibility MOOC: Inclusive Online Course Design was started to help any instructor across the world learn how to deliver more accessible online courses and content to their students.

The first session of this four-week moderated MOOC will start October 16 and will run until November 10, 2017.

October registration is now open at - http://accessibility.mrooms.net/<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Faccessibility.mrooms.net%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cchristopher.aldin%40blackboard.com%7Cac750832d28e407f964708d4fa0fa9c6%7Cbf0b29a25e5c4aaaba4dac988df15ea6%7C0%7C0%7C636408392558310666&sdata=NXa5N9ohAT1IqxQ0krrxEtHzu2lkJYzYebDdU7KTDBw%3D&reserved=0>.

For any questions, you can also contact Marlene or Aaron at the emails below:

Marlene Zentz - marlene.zentz at gmail.com<mailto:marlene.zentz at gmail.com>
Aaron Page - ampage87 at gmail.com<mailto:ampage87 at gmail.com>

Thanks,

Chris

Christopher Aldin
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