Strategy: JAWS and human support to read Hot Potatoes quizzes

6 Keywords: Hot Potatoes, Tests, Activities, Screen Reader, Blind, JAWS

"A lot of it [Hot Potatoes quiz] is edit boxes and you have to fill the gaps in and it [the screen reader] can only read what’s in its immediate range, so if you’re in an edit box and you’re typing it can only read that, if you see what I mean... "

This sample page comes from a series offered by the University of Regina Language Resource Centre

hot potatoes sample page with text box

"What I have there is a study facilitator specifically for my French work who comes in once or twice a week so that we can do those activities and we’ve worked out a system whereby she points the mouse, clicks it and reads the main text and I enter the text that needs to be put in the gaps."

 

 

 

 

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"For my French course we have to do on-line activities using a bit of software called Hot Potatoes which is useless, because it’s not very friendly towards screen readers."

- David

Tip

For those developing in Hot potatoes think of a little Hacking! - with a little coding knowledge in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript you can change the look and feel of Hot Potatoes exercises.  It is possible to add links to accessible versions of quiz pages or offer more options and the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre have offered help with several examples.

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