<div dir="ltr">Please forgive me for replying to my own posts :-)<div><br></div><div>Five minutes' research on "accessibility in IT" <br><font size="1">(which I <i>should</i> have done <i>before</i> the first post, but never mind, let's move on)</font><br>yielded many hits like this...</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_accessibility</a></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility</a></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility</a></div><div><a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/How-to-Ensure-IT-Accessibility-in-Applications-and-Websites/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/How-to-Ensure-IT-Accessibility-in-Applications-and-Websites/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php">http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php</a></div><div><a href="http://www.strategicaccessibility.com/">http://www.strategicaccessibility.com/</a></div><div><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/enable/">http://www.microsoft.com/enable/</a></div><div><a href="http://a11yproject.com/about.html">http://a11yproject.com/about.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>all of which agree that 'accessibility' refers to special needs.</div><div><br></div><div>And <a href="http://vceit.com/p/accessibility.htm">http://vceit.com/p/accessibility.htm</a> agrees too, which is <i>quite</i> nice.</div><div><br></div><div>But I still can't find a VCAA reference to 'accessibility'. </div><div>I'll keep looking, but I'm quite convinced now that I don't need to:</div><div>The Real World™ has a consistent interpretation of the word, and exam question B2 is misguided.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 November 2014 13:17, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Does anyone else have a sneaking fear that this second question in section B is misinterpreting the word "accessibility"?</div><div><br></div><div>We in VCE IT have (AFAIK) always understood 'accessibility' as referring to catering for special needs or disabilities.</div><div><br></div><div>This question smells to me as if it's referring to "ease of loading/finding". Try answering it with a "special needs" view of accessibility, and see how far you get.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Frustratingly, the current study design does not define accessibility, and it even muddies the water by including this in the glossary's definition of 'design elements'...</div><div><br></div><div><b>"In this study the elements related to functionality are structure, usability and accessibility, including navigation and load time, appropriateness and relevance."</b></div><div><br></div><div>This makes it sound like accessibility includes navigation and load time (curse their ambiguous punctuation) which is definitely not related to disabilities. </div><div><br></div><div>Yet the Nelson/Potts textbooks seems to agree that 'accessibility' relates to factors like colour blindness, reduced language skills etc.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem is that I can't find a VCE IT source for this 'accessibility' convention. <br>Does anyone remember where this interpretation of accessibility came from years ago?</div><div><br></div><div>Or have I slipped several cogs and is question B2 quite appropriate and right? Has the exam question writer read the study design and made a quite valid (but wrong) interpretation of the word? </div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><i>I love the sound of people's voices after they stop talking.</i></div><div><br></div><div><div>I, Mark Kelly, am entirely responsible for the offensive verbiage I spew forth.</div><div>Have I offended anyone with this post? I would not be surprised.</div><div>If offended, please whinge to me at the email address above. </div><div>Please leave poor Kevork alone. It is not his fault.</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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