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• Contact the DoIT Help Desk for general assistance. Reach the Help Desk by phone at 608.264.4357, email help@doit.wisc.edu or visit their KnowledgeBase.

• For accessibility or usability assistance for New Quizzes, please contact learnuwsupport@wisc.edu.

Accessibility and usability barriers 

The following information is provided to help people with disabilities know what potential barriers may exist and to help people who support them. This is not a comprehensive list of accessibility barriers, but gives a sample of the kinds of barriers that the product has.

Screen reader barriers limit access for individuals using screen readers, such as people who are blind or who have a learning disability.

An instructor is unable to create a quiz using a screen reader. The screen reader (VoiceOver in Chrome on a Mac) couldn’t access the menu and buttons to build a quiz. 

Additionally, the Hot Spot (and possibly other) question types are not keyboard navigable and a screen reader cannot access them. This would be a barrier for either a student trying to answer the question type or an instructor to create it.

Keyboard navigation barriers may limit access for people with motor disabilities.

The Date Picker for instructors is only available via mouse; also, when creating a question, a user is required to use a mouse or navigate out of field in order to move the page down when creating a question.

Figure 1: The date picker can’t be accessed by keyboard.

Figure 2: When building a quiz, the keyboard-only user has to tab out of the field of view in order to see more than the single line of text or to understand more about where they are on the screen.

Keyboard navigation is also sometimes unclear. For example, Details and Mastery Paths (Figure 3) are the two navigation items. A user would expect to be in the Details tab, then hit the tab key to land in the Assignment Name field. Instead, focus goes to the Mastery Paths tab. It isn’t a barrier to tab to Mastery Paths, but the shift (black text to blue text) is so subtle that it is confusing. A more obvious keyboard focus indicator would be better.

Figure 3: Figuring out what has focus when navigating by keyboard is not obvious because of the subtle change from blue to black text.

Magnification and reflow barriers exist, creating barriers for people with low vision.

At 300% and higher magnification, the top app bar and the footer overwhelm the viewport, making it difficult to read. At 400%, not all menu items in the dropdown menu can be read.

Figure 4: The viewport is too narrow at 400% magnification in student view.

Figure 5: Beginning at 200% magnification, not all content options are available and keyboard focus indicator is lost.