Web 2.0 Tools and Accessibility
What are Web 2.0 Tools?
Web 2.0 tools are web-based tools that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking. Many are free to use and work on multiple platforms.
Web 2.0 tools are web-based tools that focus on user collaboration, sharing of user-generated content, and social networking. Many are free to use and work on multiple platforms.
While there are many Web 2.0 tools, you should know that not all of them are accessible for people with disabilities. "We don’t teach to teach the privileged and the few, we teach to teach all, and if we don’t become accessible, we are not teaching everyone. If you work on accessibility, you are improving yourself as an organization, and the impact for everyone is greater and more effective than anything else you can do.”- Lucy Greco
Web 2.0 Tools and Apps Score Cards
Web 2.0 Tools and Apps Score Cards
- The Web 2.0 Tools and App Score cards were designed to give faculty members guide points for what to look for in terms of accessibility.
- The score cards contain information from the WCAG standards, as well as language from the VPAT™.
- The score cards are also used as a tool to ask EdTech vendors questions about the accessibility of their product.
- These are basic score cards. The higher the score the tool receives, the better the tool is for accessibility.
- There are three versions of the scorecards: One scorecard is looking at the accessibility of the tool from a creator(instructor) point of view and the other scorecard is looking at the accessibility of the tool from a (student) user point of view. For those tools that offer app versions of their product, there is also is also an APP scorecard.
- The score cards are Creative Common Licensed. You are free to remix, transform, or build upon the material. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. You must provide attribution.
- Assessing the Accessibility of Web 2.0 Tools (Bookcreator Presentation)
- Electronic Braille Version of Presentation
Select the links to download the scorecards(Google Doc/Word Doc)