Lessons from learning designers: Accessibility, WCAG 2 and working with JAWS

Constantly finding better ways to do things is a way of life in the Cadre learning design studio. Cadre Producer Jessica Kemmett shares her tips on accessible learning design and working within the requirements of WCAG 2 and JAWS.

Having recently finished a series of modules for a client who needed to be WCAG 2 accessible to AA standard, work in IE6 and above and work with JAWS I thought I’d share my experience and findings to help others who might be facing some similar challenges. We chose to develop the modules in Flash because of the tight timeline and we thought that it would be more stable in IE6.

Firstly, here are three things you need to know about JAWS before you begin. JAWS is really only for IE. It doesn’t work reliably in other browsers. This was a painful learning curve and one that will waste you several hours if you don’t know it ahead of time. This can potentially create an issue if your testing spec includes accessibility and non-IE browsers.  In a

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