{"id":464,"date":"2016-03-15T11:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T11:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.eu\/?p=464"},"modified":"2016-07-22T15:45:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:45:44","slug":"new-oer-what-is-web-accessibility-and-why-is-it-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"New OER: What Is Web Accessibility and Why Is It Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our first blog posts about the MOOCAP <abbr title=\"Open Educational Resources\">OERs<\/abbr> was about <a href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?p=275\">digital accessibility in general<\/a>. Today&rsquo;s post covers the more specific topic of <a class=\"glossaryLink\"  aria-describedby=\"tt\"  data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Web accessibility&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;The extent to which a web technology can be used by everyone.&lt;\/div&gt;\"  href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?glossary=web-accessibility\"  data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]'  tabindex='0' role='link'>web accessibility<\/a>: what it is, why it is important (in Germany) and how it is evaluated. <\/p>\n<p>This <abbr>OER<\/abbr> consists of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JpV1VDvFUig\">video (on YouTube, with captions)<\/a> and an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/0B5pduB_JZh5ES2tfSnFwT3QyVXc\/view?usp=sharing\">accompanying Word document on Google Drive<\/a>. Like our previous <abbr>OERs<\/abbr>, the video and the Word document are available under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC-BY 4.0 licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our first blog posts about the MOOCAP OERs was about digital <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Accessibility&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;The extent to which a product (including software, websites and documents) or service can be used by everyone, regardless of disabilities.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?glossary=accessibility\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">accessibility<\/a> in general. Today&#x2019;s post covers the more specific topic of web accessibility: what it is, why it is important (in Germany) and how it is evaluated. This OER consists of a video (on <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;YouTube&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Video hosting website owned by Google.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?glossary=youtube\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">YouTube<\/a>, with <a class=\"glossaryLink\" aria-describedby=\"tt\" data-cmtooltip=\"&lt;div class=glossaryItemTitle&gt;Captions&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div class=glossaryItemBody&gt;Text alternative for speech and non-speech sound in a video typically displayed at the bottom of the screen.&lt;\/div&gt;\" href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?glossary=captions\" data-gt-translate-attributes='[{\"attribute\":\"data-cmtooltip\", \"format\":\"html\"}]' tabindex=\"0\" role=\"link\">captions<\/a>) and an accompanying Word document &#x2026; <a href=\"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/?p=464\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New OER: What Is Web Accessibility and Why Is It Important?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moocap.gpii.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}