[Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility

[Ben Hines]

I was thinking this too mark. It sounds like many of my students used common sense and didn't answer it with a special needs interpretation. Because to them it didn't seem to fit here.

My thought was around the fact that maybe persons with disabilities may more easily communicate using video or audio ( by recording it and uploading it). Than by just typing.

But the question really doesn't seem to be leaning this way?




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-------- Original message --------
From: Mark
Date:09/11/2014 13:22 (GMT+10:00)
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility

Does anyone else have a sneaking fear that this second question in section B is misinterpreting the word "accessibility"?

We in VCE IT have (AFAIK) always understood 'accessibility' as referring to catering for special needs or disabilities.

This question smells to me as if it's referring to "ease of loading/finding". Try answering it with a "special needs" view of accessibility, and see how far you get.

Frustratingly, the current study design does not define accessibility, and it even muddies the water by including this in the glossary's definition of 'design elements'...

"In this study the elements related to functionality are structure, usability and accessibility, including navigation and load time, appropriateness and relevance."

This makes it sound like accessibility includes navigation and load time (curse their ambiguous punctuation) which is definitely not related to disabilities.

Yet the Nelson/Potts textbooks seems to agree that 'accessibility' relates to factors like colour blindness, reduced language skills etc.

The problem is that I can't find a VCE IT source for this 'accessibility' convention.
Does anyone remember where this interpretation of accessibility came from years ago?

Or have I slipped several cogs and is question B2 quite appropriate and right? Has the exam question writer read the study design and made a quite valid (but wrong) interpretation of the word?

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