Thanks all for the discussion of accessibility and Evan for the PR to
improve the accessibility of the lessons.
In our workshop checklists: http://www.datacarpentry.org/checklists/
we have an Accessibility section (
http://www.datacarpentry.org/accessibility/) that also mentions talking
with the
Thanks Nelle,
That’s really good advice, and very much appreciated!
We’ve had some additional advice off-list, and your last point - communicate
with the student ahead of time to find out their needs - is maybe the most
humane and practical piece of advice anyone could give for this and similar
Hi all,
> On 21 Sep 2016, at 16:50, Raniere Silva wrote:
>
> Hi Leighton,
>
>> 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/approac
Hi Nelle,
thanks for you tips to Leighton.
> - 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.
I have the feeling th
Hi Leighton,
> 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 believe that th
On 20 September 2016 at 08:59, Leighton Pritchard
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 delive