SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Melanie Scott -
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So, I'm testing a SCORM with a screen reader, which is a horrible thing.  Here are some things I'm seeing.  If I have the scorm open in the current window (which is preferred by my agency), the screen reader seems to have trouble reading the content--It wants to read everything but the package slides.  We're currently using Boost and I'm starting to hate the collapsible thing on the left that is supposed to replace blocks.  Even when minimized it wants to read all of it.

So my real question...What are the best SCORM settings to use to get screen readers to read scorm content?  I know there is a lot of stuff I need to do inside my module (Captivate does NOT make it easy) but the settings and theme seem just as important.  Anyone else trying to make scorm accessibility compliant modules? What do you do?

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Re: SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Dan Marsden -
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If your goal is to develop content that is accessible your first mistake is probably trying to do this in SCORM. You would likely get a much better result using a different tool - like the lesson activity in Moodle. 

SCORM is heavily geared towards javascript, the authoring tools are heavily geared towards "visual display" - you have a lot more control over the accessibility of your content in the lesson module - and it's often much faster to develop the content in Lesson that it is in something like articulate.

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Re: SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Melanie Scott -
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Thanks, Dan.  I know Lesson is more likely to not cause those sorts of problems...and how to build in it, etc.

Sigh.  But if the push is to do it in Captivate...are there particular settings that work best?

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Re: SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Mathew Gancarz -
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I would say you would definitely want to open the scorm package in it's own window then atleast, but I don't have direct experience with this myself.

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Re: SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Stella Cardozo -

Is it NOT possible to make SCORM ACCESSIBILITY FRIENDLY?

Today it is imperative to follow the standards of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

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Re: SCORM 3.3 and screen readers...

by Dan Marsden -
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The latest versions of Articulate/Captivate do this better than they used to, but SCORM is still SCORM.


As mentioned, it would be better to use the built in content authoring tools within Moodle (like Lesson/Quiz etc.) - but another good alternative is H5P


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