⏱️ The Essentials in 3 Minutes |
🧠 Understand Why Accessibility Matters in Learning
A training course is only fully effective if all your learners can access it, regardless of any visual, motor, or cognitive disability. Accessibility is not just a compliance topic: it is a condition for inclusion and pedagogical equity.
Didask is committed to making its platform accessible to everyone, by complying with international standards and ensuring compatibility with the main assistive tools.
✅ Identify the Standards Didask Complies With
Didask complies with the main web accessibility standards:
W3C: official standards from the World Wide Web Consortium.
WCAG 2.1 AA: the recognized compliance level for web content accessibility.
ARIA: recommendations for making web applications accessible to assistive technologies.
In practice, this means:
Alternative descriptions for images.
Compatibility with screen readers.
Semantic page structure to facilitate keyboard navigation.
🔈 Understand Text-to-Speech and Screen Readers
Text-to-speech refers to tools that automatically convert text into synthetic speech. This allows learners with visual impairments, dyslexia, or eye fatigue to access content by listening to it.
A screen reader can take three forms:
Type | Example | Use case |
Built into the operating system | VoiceOver (Mac), Narrator (Windows) | Native, free, ready to use. |
Web extension | Speechify | Quick reading of content directly in the browser. |
Installable software | JAWS, NVDA, Orca | Full access to the entire system and all applications. |
🛠️ Choose the Right Tool for Your Learners
VoiceOver (free, built into Mac) is Apple's screen reader. It enables visually impaired users to use a Mac OS X computer thanks to a built-in speech synthesizer that reads aloud the text displayed on screen.
Speechify (paid) is a leading text-to-speech solution. It converts text into a humanized voice to read emails, long documents, and more aloud. A standout feature: the Chrome extension can read almost anything you see in the browser (Google Docs, web pages, etc.).
💡 Tip: let learners with visual impairments know about compatible tools at the start of the training course, so they can configure their environment before the first module.
Keywords: accessibility, screen reading, screen reader, text-to-speech.