On 20 September 2016 at 08:59, Leighton Pritchard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We’ll be teaching a workshop soon, with a visually-impaired (blind) student. > This is a new experience for me, and I was wondering if any of you might be > able to share some advice for teaching strategies/approaches to delivering > material that could be useful?
I've never taught to a blind student, but I've got a bunch of friends who are blind, so here is a couple of things to keep in mind: - Make sure you give all explanation orally. That'll be hard considering you'll probably show a lot of code. I'd suggest sharing your material with him/her beforehand making sure every piece of code you'll type is in there (or record what you are typing and upload it somewhere everytime you save). - Make sure your material are accessible (in that case, readable with a screenreader). Schema should be avoided. Text is fine. Most pdf are accessible, most *simple* html is as well, but fancy javascript can be problematic. - Make sure that the tables, chairs and cables are quite tidy and aren't moved around too much. In practice, all my blind friends are very autonomous, so I wouldn't worry too much. You can also ask that student directly: he/she may be able to give you some advice. Cheers, N > > Many thanks, > > L. > > -- > Leighton Pritchard > [email protected] > gpg/pgp:0xDECACFFC > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
