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Student Perspectives on Assistive Technology.
E.A. Draffan
Blurring of Technologies
• When does IT become AT? • Future IT Trends a help or a hindrance? • Movement in Traditional AT • Where do we go now?• Mobile phones• eReading • Supporting Students.
When does IT become AT?
• When it is accessible?
• When it has no VAT?
• When it is accepted by SLC?
• When we have the evidence it helps?
Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps, Social
Reading, Tablet Computing
Adaptive Learning Environments,
Augmented Reality, Game-Based Learning,
Learning Analytics
Digital Identity, Gesture-Based
Computing, Haptic Interfaces, Internet of
Things
Future IT Trends a help or a hindrance?
(Horizon Report HE shortlist 2012)
1 year or less
2-3 years
4-5 years
Movement in Traditional AT • TextHelp Read and Write Gold – additional web
apps for four years as a service – Read and Write web, Speech, eBook Reader and Dictionary.
• Dolphin SaySo – Bookshare, Load2Learn etc
• ClaroSoftware compressed TTS with quality from a cloud service - AccessMyStudies – speaking without installation – ATbar
• All making apps e.g. iOS ClaroSpeak (£3.99) – other languages – many uses!
“None of the organisational software was recommended on a basis that it will sync with my mobile devices which are the
only devices I would ever remember to check. My
assessor was aware of this”
Where do we go now?SmartPhone• 79.3% not recommended• 6.1% recommended smartphone of which 3.3%
found very useful• 14.3% did not respond
Tablet• 80% not recommended• 5.3% recommended, 2.7% found very useful• 14.3% did not respond(Student DSA Survey – Wilkinson,S., Viney,D., Draffan,EA 2012)
Mobile Phone survey (2011)
Accessing their websites on a mobile device (number of visits in one month):• iPhone: 1199• Android: 502• iPad: 488• iPod: 154• Other: 178
80% of those who responded had a smart phone. Of that 80% the breakdown was as follows:• Android: 42.3%• Blackberry 34.6%• iPhone: 11.5%• Windows: 3.8%• Other: 7.7%
(http://www.in-traction.com/mobile-browsing-a-student-survey/)
Comments – Aspirations“An iPad. I have since self funded for one and it really helps. I use it to take notes sketching internet and for keynote presentations. I also use the reminder facility and calendar for short term memory.”
“a smart phone/ iPad of some kind which is light and
easy to carry round with me which would help me
organise myself.”
“I was not aware that there was an option for a tablet to be provided it would be very useful to have been able to use this during lectures
and practicals to take notes and to access notes/research that I have prepared in
advance.”
eReading
“I wasn't recommended an ereader …I haven't got one yet and am not sure how many of the things I need to read are available on them, but it is something I am considering as they are smaller lighter and more convenient than my big text books and I think they might be easier to
look at.”
“An eReader would have helped me
organise my reading and
research much better.”
(2012 survey)
iPad versus Kindle study
• Reed College 2011– Legibility - size, contrast, and resolution – only
one had eyestrain and no comment on difference to e-ink of Kindle
– Touch screen – speed over joystick and keyboard– Portability, Durability and Battery life – both good
compared to laptops– Paper saving – annotations possible on iPad– Referring to texts in class v distraction of emails!http://www.reed.edu/cis/about/ipad_pilot/index.html
eReading storms brewing
• Over 150 eReader/eBook applications/software available on varying platforms
• Limited outlets for eBooks in UK esp FREE ePublications – Load2Learn Project
• Unable to determine if an eBook is accessible until after the product is purchased.
• Copyright legislation – text to speech availability. • eReader comparison
http://ereaderleader.com/ereader-comparison/
eReading accessibility
• Desktop - Adobe Digital Editions 1.8 & Kindle for PC Accessibility Plug-in (USA)
• Web based – Kindle Cloud Reader and ePub reader Firefox extension – Bookworm closed.
• Apps tied to bookstores such as Read2Go for Bookshare and Blio for Kurzweil – inDaisy reads any Daisy files also Voice of DAISY.
• Apps – iBooks with VoiceOver, Stanza, Kobo for large fonts and colour changes etc.
Supporting Students
• Training take up remains around 40-50%
• Drop in centres• More expertise to cope with the world of IT/AT
mobile, cloud as well as desktop.
Student expectations
“it wasn't training I wasn't taught anything everything that he 'taught' me I already knew
he just downloaded rubbish onto my computer and made it so slow that I can
barely use it!”
App Support
• Device specific apps – standards, variable accessibility and questionable life in the market place with flexi-updates.
• Google apps – Docs better than spread sheets, Presentation better than the Calendar – used in USA education so accessibility improving
• Web apps – HTML5 – cross platform - potential for accessibility guidelines good.
Can we help?
• http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk • Research – evidence based – LexDis• Free and open source – ATbar – 2nd version just
released, Accessible pen drive menu for portable apps.
• Give us your new ideas on www.realisepotential.org • Testing Web 2.0 services – www.web2access.org
Thank You