{"id":78397,"date":"2022-01-19T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78397"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T20:54:21","slug":"can-a-new-online-learning-platform-improve-employment-for-those-with-visual-impairment-mollenkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/01\/19\/can-a-new-online-learning-platform-improve-employment-for-those-with-visual-impairment-mollenkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment? [Mollenkamp]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2022-01-14-can-a-new-online-learning-platform-improve-employment-for-those-with-visual-impairment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Daniel Mollenkamp<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A workplace technology report from the American Foundation for the Blind,\u00a0published this month, notes that many people who are blind, have low vision or are deafblind say that they experience difficulties with accessibility for workplace training.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">According to researchers from the foundation, the participants in the study described problems with online trainings that were incompatible with screen-reading software or visual adjustments like changing the font size, with quizzes that didn\u2019t work with a keyboard and with educational images and videos that weren\u2019t verbally described.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Many of the participants say they needed to get help from a manager or coworker to complete mandatory training, the report notes, causing delays and feelings of exclusion.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can A New Online Learning Platform Improve Employment For Those With Visual Impairment? &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Daniel Mollenkamp Excerpt: A workplace technology report from the American Foundation for the Blind,\u00a0published this month, notes that many people who are blind, have low vision or are deafblind say that they experience difficulties with accessibility for workplace training. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,190,851,387,174,260,112,200,32,98,382,62,309,118,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-assistive-technologies","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-business","category-career-development","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-education-technology","category-elearning","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-training-corporate-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78399,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78397\/revisions\/78399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}