Topic Overview

The goal of our courses are to deliver content and educate the students. The style and structure of our courses should aid and support that goal rather thad detract from it. A good design is one that users do not notice because if they notice it, it typically is due to frustration. The objective of this topic is to inform you of how structure and page stylings can effect the accessibility of a web page. You will learn the things that you can do to have the page visually organized content properly while allowing for proper navigation through the page using assistive technologies. You will also learn how the visual structure can help or hurt students in terms of time spent on a page trying to accomplish their current task weather that is to get information or to navigate to another area of your course.

By the end of this topic, you should know:

• What elements effect the read order of assistive technologies.
• How visual elements and structor effect cognition.
• Why it is important to supporting content and how simplicity is bliss.