1. 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

2. ABOUT ME Graduate of ITCD – Website Design Teaching assistant ITCD at CSUMB (2008-10) Passionate interest in accessible/universal design My project – website and tutorials

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

4. 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

5. Engaging Instruction Feedback Inspire positive attitudes M Y S OLUTION

6. 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

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

8. http://myspace.csumb.edu/~teresa_sundholm/Mist_capstone_site/ P ROJECT D EMONSTRATION

9. E VALUATION OF THE P ROJECT - T ESTING Sample size: 17 students (target audience) Post-test paired sample one-tail p-value: 0.000335979 Pre-set alpha: 0.05 Well below 0.05 - testing shows significant improvement

10. Q UIZ R ESULTS

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

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

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

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

15. 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