How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?
In our learning resource, we have designed our resource to accommodate for learners that have either colour impairment or hearing impairments. Colour blindness is fairly common universally and can prevent a learner from understanding the delivery or expression of content. For example, typically green colours indicate positive outcomes, while red colours typically indicate negative outcomes. However, with varying levels of colour blindness, the individual may not be able to identify the different between green and red. Our learning resource aims to use colours to supplement the content, but it does not add additional expressions to the content. While not using colours as a way to explicitly express information, our resource has also been converted to grayscale to ensure that the content is all accessible and readable to those that cannot see any colour. Converting to grayscale is beneficial to our resource, since it allows us to identify if there are illegible texts or formats that overlap due to certain colours being converted to gray.
Another impairment that may inhibit learner’s needs is hearing impairment. For many courses and learning resources, there are occasions where videos with audio are used as academic resources and the videos are the chosen form of delivery. Our resource also follows this belief of using videos within resources. However, to accommodate to learners with hearing impairments, all videos that are used contain closed captions that allow the learner to extrapolate the same information from the video as those listening with audio.
For our interactive learning resource, it is our goal to create a resource that is simple and accessible for all learners. Designing the content with inclusiveness in mind helps us ensure that our resource can be accessed by all learners despite limitations they may have.