{"id":913,"date":"2019-05-07T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=913"},"modified":"2019-05-07T13:04:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:04:06","slug":"good-practice-for-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/913","title":{"rendered":"Good practice for accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across\u00a0Lee Fallin<\/a> and Sue Watling<\/a> ‘s\u00a0 Designing for diverse learners poster<\/a> where they have adapted work from\u00a0Accessibility Poster Series from the Home Office Digital<\/a>.\u00a0 I am promoting accessible materials at UCEM and was looking to put up some posters in the Hub area (communal space) to remind my colleagues of accessibility good practice when I found\u00a0Lee and Sue’s poster shared with CC license.<\/p>\n

Though I have published some of my work with CC license in open access journals, this is my first re-mix of CC licensed work . I wasn’t sure how much of a change was considered a re-mix. So after talking to Lucy,\u00a0Information Governance Manager at UCEM I am confident in publishing it with share-alike license similar to the work I adapted. Asma, our Graphic Designer at UCEM, helped me by designing it with her graphic design software and saving it as a PDF.<\/p>\n

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In this version of work, we wanted to say why we needed to do each of these suggested accessibility enhancing steps. For example, we should not use colour as the only means to convey meaning (e.g. red\u00a0 letters for wrong answers and green letters for correct answers) because colour-blind learners may not be able to\u00a0 access the content as they may not be able to distinguish the different colours. I think giving reasons why something needs\u00a0 to be done in a certain way makes it more real as people can make connections.<\/p>\n

This poster was designed to be visual as we are hoping to print it and display it at UCEM.\u00a0 I also created an accessible version of this poster in a text only version which can also be downloaded.<\/p>\n

Again I want to thank Lee and Sue for their amazing work. Had they not shared this with CC license we would not have been able to adapt it.<\/p>\n