UNIVERSAL DESIGN & WEB ACCESSIBILITY Web-based Instruction for College Students Designer: Teresa Sundholm Advisor: Bude Su CAPSTONE FALL 2010 Masters of Instructional Science and Technology School of Information Technology and Communication Design, California State University Monterey Bay

ABOUT ME Graduate of ITCD – Website Design Teaching assistant ITCD at CSUMB ( ) Passionate interest in accessible/universal design My project – website and tutorials

Importance of creating websites that are accessible: ethical reasons legal reasons Current instruction: resource driven, too advanced

I MPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM The American Disabilities Act (ADA) applied to websites Future designers cannot ignore need to create: websites accessed by users of all abilities universally designed websites

Engaging Instruction Feedback Inspire positive attitudes M Y S OLUTION

W HAT T HIS P ROJECT A CCOMPLISHES Instructional media engages and informs Primer for further study Confidence checks and feedback Cognitive and Affective learning strategies ADA compliant

M AIN M ATERIALS U SED Adobe Dreamweaver, HTML, CSS Adobe Captivate Adobe Photoshop Mac iMovie Internet Browsers

P ROJECT D EMONSTRATION

E VALUATION OF THE P ROJECT - T ESTING Sample size: 17 students (target audience) Post-test paired sample one-tail p-value: Pre-set alpha: 0.05 Well below testing shows significant improvement

Q UIZ R ESULTS

E VALUATION OF THE P ROJECT - U SABILITY Positive student response including: ease of use of the project engagement from graphics and media

S TUDENT C OMMENT “Very clean and pleasing. Actually explained the mechanics – a visually impaired person can’t read the text…Good module!”

F UTURE OF THE PROJECT Project to be completed Use in curriculum Use in portfolio Saleable

C ONCLUSION New skills learned: technical, coding, testing, instructional design Advice for future students: Scale project or have partner Aware of skillset Positive experience

T HANKS Faculty and staff of ITCD and MIST Mentors in design and web accessibility : Kevin Cahill, Design Faculty Chip Lenno, CIO Cindy Compean, Assistive Technology Friends