Another "learning object" I have had to review as as part of a course on instructional design, is an e-book for young readers: "
Sk8 for Jake".
The content of the book seemed suitable for the intended audience, but
the web interface has some problems. Perhaps this would be better as an
ePub e-book.
Some routine tests run on the interface:
- W3C Markup Validation Service: 32 Errors, 12 warnings.
- W3C mobileOK Checker: Score of 0 out of 5 (lowest possible score). Failures per severity: critical 4, severe 2, medium 2, low 5.
- Achecker Accessibility Review for WCAG 2.0 (Level AA) Guidelines: Known Problems (22), Likely Problems (0), Potential Problems (187).
These are some easily fixed problems with the interface. However
the major difficulty is that the content of the book appears to be
presented as one large image per page. There is no text which could be
converted to Braille, or synthetic speech. This makes the entire book
inaccessible.
There is an audio option, which has very clear narration and has the
option of setting the speed. But I had difficulty operating the audio
interface and it does not appear to exactly match the text in the book.
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