[Athen] Learning ally deleting students

[Deborah Armstrong]

OK, so I’ve discovered a dialog box pops up that says “delete” or “archive” this student, with the student’s name followed by a confirm and a cancel link.

What’s going on though is that it’s being shown at the end of the virtual buffer. I know there’s a way web designers can indicate that something is a dialog box so the screen reader will treat it like one, but I don’t know exactly how that’s done. Aria maybe?

Also because the Learning Ally site is slow it takes several seconds for that box to appear which makes the whole thing even more confusing. You press Delete or archive and nothing appears to happen. Then eventually that box appears, and you have to loose your place, do ctrl-End to get to the end of the buffer, then arrow back up to find the link for confirm. Tedious, but usable!

And I’ve also confirmed that these cancel and confirm links aren’t in tab order so even if you don’t use a screen reader you’d have to hit tab hundreds of times to arrive at those links.
Would be better if you could check boxes for everyone you want to delete, archive or unarchive and then hit one confirm button.

I don’t think they need a real screen reader user testing things to fix most issues though. They just have to make their staff use their own site with the keyboard for a week and they’ll see immediately what its biggest interface problems are.

--Debee


From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Zachary Mason
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:36 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: [Athen] Learning ally deleting students

Hello Deborah,

I volunteer with learning Ally. I will pass this message along to my supervisors.

Zac
Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 27, 2019, at 11:25 AM, Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu<mailto:armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>> wrote:
Am I the only screen reader user who finds the Learning Ally student management site impossible?

I’ve been trying to delete the 102 students on my account who are no longer at this college. I press the archive button under each name and nothing appears to happen.

Under the list of archived students, there are delete buttons for each student, and there I press delete.

But I cannot move anyone from active to archived and I can’t delete anyone archived.

I always have trouble too when I need to update a student. A dialog box slowly pops up and it’s difficult to locate with a screen reader. Then it has some weird half-accessible controls that don’t always respond to the keyboard.

Has anyone actually talked to their web designers about making the site more accessible?

--Debee

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