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 From your activities this week, the case studies and readings in Block 1 and your own experience, write notes about the factors that contribute to a student either stopping using assistive technology or becoming a successful user. From your notes pick out one or two factors that interested you and discuss them in your tutor [...]

For each of slides 7 to 14, choose the one technology that you are least familiar with and do an internet search to find out more. What are its main features? How expensive is it? Do suppliers also supply training? Planning Tools: Outliners These tools are computer programs ‘that allows text to be organized into [...]

Digital technology has brought about improvement in accessibility. In one of the videos, Neal Ewers of the Trace Research Center works on whether application software work well with screen readers. Whilst I was using a screen reader I was not able to think from the perspective of a blind student e.g. It never crossed my [...]

This activity asks us to research funding for disabled students which may be available in my context. I am not aware about any such funding in the higher institution in which I teach. A web search on funding in Malta for disabled students  has given the following results; The Maltese national commission for higher education [...]

Using your notes from Activity 19.1, identify the strengths and weaknesses of guidelines as tools to improve the accessibility of online learning. The following questions might help: To what extent do you think guidelines work? Depending on the level of detail of the guidelines, Who do they work best for? Educators and any other persons [...]