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Jasmine Koria Post 1

• 18 February 2025, 11:38 PM

Response to Washington University Advice on Producing Accessible Video Content

I found, in reading the article, that accessibility guidelines are workable/applicable/adaptable in/for many contexts. Ensuring accessibility does not always have to be costly or time -consuming, but it definitely does require a strong sense of our duty of care towards all our learners. It also requires innovative thinking, and a willingness to use simple but efficient techniques over complex, expensive ones. 

I found that this article provided a great deal of information on how to ensure video learning resources are accessible to learners with impaired hearing. I do feel that more can be done for those who have vision impairment. I'm also curious as to how we might approach learners who have multiple disabilities. I had, for three years, a student who struggled with impaired eyesight and at least three different autism-spectrum disorders. I know this is not as common a case as having a learner who only struggles with one disability, but it still raises some interesting questions, in my view. 

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Margaux Ronquillo Post 2 in reply to 1

• 21 February 2025, 4:42 PM

I've actually read two of the three suggested links for online guidance about how to make multimedia and interactives resources. I have picked the BC Campus' Accessibility toolkit first (which I found to be simpler) and the University of Washington's (UoW) resource (this one appears to have more details). They are both informative and both confirm to me that we definitely need to understand the issues that these guidelines cover to make sure that we can maximise the support it can offer to our learners.

I agree with you Jasmine, 'duty of care' is the key phrase here. In my opinion, for as long as we keep that in mind and exercise that duty, we would always be able to find ways to apply and even innovate these guidelines to make them fit the needs of our learners as much as possible. With that, I think we also need to take into account that learning materials can be presented in so many ways (the beauty of creativity and innovation!) so this is most likely why there are different guidelines for the same components. 

The resource links we've been given for this activity are pretty good examples and I think I would be referring back to them as the need arises. The UK government has also created a comprehensive guideline for making digital content accessible, they actually used nifty infographics for this one :D