Beyond Compliance: Creating Exceptional Screen Reader Experiences in Learning Design
summary
Live NVDA demo walks through a Canvas course, showing region and heading navigation, then contrasts an inaccessible page with an accessible remake. Demonstrates NVDA browse vs focus mode, a Canvas+H5P iframe that contains nine draggable items, three drop zones and a keyboard trap that prevents completion, and recommends replacing drag‑drop with combo boxes when needed. Covers concrete fixes: H1 per module, labeled buttons, decorative images hidden, ARIA cues, and notes tooling limits like a 125-character alt text limit.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Welcome
- 2:34Screen reader demo with NVDA
- 13:19Interactive elements and focus modes
- 16:51Embedded frames and drag-and-drop challenges
- 28:03Accessibility failures in learning design
- 35:26Remediating accessibility issues
- 41:05Making embedded frames accessible
- 42:50Best practices for alt text
- 48:31NVDA for screen reader users
- 51:19Headings for course navigation
- 57:25Q&A
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