E-Learning Council

Using a Dog Clicker to improve your E-learning…who would’ve thunk it.   When recording audio have a dog clicker in hand.  When you make a mistake click on it.  The sharp click is easy to spot in the sound editor and makes it a lot easier to edit out the mistake.  

We’re exploring Twitter this month.

 

2-4pm CT at MicroAssist

3420 Executive Center Drive, Suite G100, Austin, TX 78731

Using Twitter as part of your business and need it to be accessible?  The folks at Accessible Twitter have created an accessible client.  Features include:

• All links are keyboard accessible.
• DM, Favorite, Reply, Re-tweet, and Delete links are all visible by default.
• Simple, consistent layout and navigation (and signed-in username always displayed).
• Headings and page titles are implemented for optimal accessibility. This includes an H3 heading (for author screen name) added to tweets to assist with screen reader users.
• Works great with or without JavaScript.
• Ajax actions are concluded with an alert that notifies the user of the result of the action.
• Large default text size and high color contrast.
• Text resizes many levels without breaking.
• Looks great in all screen resolutions from 800-pixel width 1600 and higher.
• When entering tweets, audio cues indicate when the character limit is almost reached (in additon to character counter).
• Forms and data tables are marked up for optimal accessibility.
• Code is semantic, light, and adheres to best practices in Web Standards.
• If a tweet is in response to another (and marked as such in the data), a clearer link is provided to the that tweet (not hidden). There’s also a more obvious link to the “permanent page” for the tweet.
• A clearer link is provided for the “permanent” link for a tweet; the page containing only a single tweet.
• Definitions of abbreviations are provided to certain acronyms in tweets such as IMHO (in my humble opinion).
• Tested on all major browsers: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome.

Try Accessible Twitter at http://www.accessibletwitter.com