In the eLearning industry; it is the basic requirement to make everything accessible to the people. If a part of the students or parents who have physical disabilities are not able to access the learning management system. If you are wondering; why you should make the platform accessible to all; then you should keep reading the following write-up to know more.
- Better Experience for All Users: Generally, we thought that the accessibility factor was only for people with disabilities, but, it is applicable to almost all users. When the website is certified for better accessibility; you can make sure that you will understand, and navigate. Access and contribute to the functionalities and the information for your web platform. Whether you have an old computer or slow internet; you will enjoy the website with ease.
- Learners with Disability: Do you know 20% of the human population is with a disability? That means, one in every 5 students may have an issue or disability. It can be visual or physical, speech problems, auditory, learning, cognitive or neurological. If your LMS is not accessible; then 20% of students will face the problem and will be dissatisfied with your system.
- Legal: After the introduction of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act); it has become mandatory to make every web component accessible to all irrespective of their ability or disability level. The website, application, and other mediums must accommodate differently-abled people.
What are the important aspects to make the LMS accessible?
There are some particular factors that will make the Learning Management System accessible. Let’s discuss those aspects here:
- All images must have an alt tag
- The option to identify a student as a screen reader user, enabling interfaces to be reduced to reduce clutter and page content to adapt to the read-out-loud format.
- Screen reader skips long lists of links
- For better readability, they must increase the content size by zooming
- Better keyboard navigation