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I'm a UX designer interested in accessibility. Would you please help me understand how some educational websites work for you? (self.Blind)
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CloudyBeep 3 points 1y ago
Only about 25% of WCAG violations can be discovered through automated tools.

It would be a better use of your time to familiarize yourself with WCAG and the supporting documents. If this sounds too hard, Deque University offers courses on web accessibility that you may like to take; each only takes a few hours to complete.

This is a different way for UX designers to think. You try to replicate the features you like from existing websites. But with accessibility, it's better to use accessibility as a means to make your design ideas come alive for users with disabilities, rather than using it as the design idea itself. Once you're acquainted with WCAG, you should be able to make any design idea accessible (of course with a few caveats).
Mysterious-Friend855 -2 points 1y ago
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CloudyBeep 3 points 1y ago
As a starting point (with lots of simplification), here's an article directed at designers: https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/7-things-every-designer-needs-to-know-about-accessibility-64f105f0881b
Mysterious-Friend855 3 points 1y ago
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CloudyBeep 3 points 1y ago
It's the tip of the iceberg. Enrol in a Deque University course or read the actual WCAG documentation to learn more.
CloudyBeep 3 points 1y ago
No. Please learn about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
DevelopmentJazzlike2 2 points 1y ago
I need to use McGraw hill mymathlab and the scaling is atrocious. If I zoom in on chrome it scales so the information is somehow smaller and harder to find? It’s really awful when you’re using honorlock and the AI can’t see your face cause you need to be an inch from the screen. I’ve been able to get around the honorlock issue by speaking to my professors and proctors but the scaling is still awful. Same kinda goes for canvas but not nearly as bad. What’s most important to me is dark mode and good scaling. I’m not blind (yet) that’s important to mention
Mysterious-Friend855 1 points 1y ago
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DevelopmentJazzlike2 1 points 1y ago
Windows scaling is pretty good. Anything with dark mode is a god send. Kindle app was wonderful last time I used it (my preferred way to read) as the text can be made huge and it’s got a dark mode. Big icons/big UI navigation is also very nice because I don’t have a lot of peripheral vision and sometimes find myself looking a bit too hard for menu items. Pretty much as someone who’s only halfway there, I find things being larger and having good contrast to be the most important aspects. I’d imagine for someone who’s closer to being blind good TTS type features would be important but I couldn’t speak on it more than that
Mysterious-Friend855 1 points 1y ago
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DevelopmentJazzlike2 1 points 1y ago
Web scaling tends to suck. Most of my experience is with mymathlab and canvas. Canvas is a lot better but both are prettt meh. Things tend to move places and sometimes some things get smaller (???) I know nothing about UX so there’s probably a reason but that drives me bananas lol
OldManOnFire 2 points 1y ago
Former college math teacher here.

I like Khan generally, but YouTube is my favorite because students can find so many different ways to approach the same problem. Khan only presents one. They do it well, but if it doesn't click for you there really isn't a plan B on Khan.

And most of Khan's stuff is on YouTube anyway, although it's not always presented in order by the YouTube algorithm.

What matters? What's important? For me, the clarity of a textbook explanation. Here's a dirty little secret - the author of a math textbook isn't usually the one who writes the exercises. That job falls to grad students, and in far too many cases the grad students are selecting problems to show the author how clever they are, not to help the student understand the chapter. The author might write out a brilliant explanation of a technique and the student thinks he understands, but then the problems at the end of the chapter include very tricky algebra or unexpected exponents and the student doesn't know if he got the problem wrong because he doesn't understand the concept or because he made a mistake somewhere while pluggin' and chuggin' the numbers.

What I want is a clear, non-technical explanation of a technique, explained to me like I'm five. Don't show off your mathematical vocabulary or your algebra skills, use simple words and numbers like 2 and 3 so I can concentrate on the concept and not have to consult a dictionary or a calculator. Once I've mastered the technique with twos and threes I'm ready to plug and chug Hamiltonian numbers or Taylor series, but please wait until I've sipped from the cup before you turn on the fire hose.
Mysterious-Friend855 2 points 1y ago
That is very good! thank you
Mysterious-Friend855 1 points 1y ago
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bradley22 1 points 1y ago
The only one I can give you my input on is youtube.

It works fine, apart from the comments, the way you load them is you have to go to the bottom of the page, then back to the top, alt home for the top and alt end for the bottom, then use your h key for heading to find the comments, the issue then is that each comment is a heading, which works fine apart from when you want to skip the comments and read the next video titles to click on.


I think the app works better, there's a button you can tap on to expand the comments, you can then go back by tapping on the back button.
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