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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This story popped up last Thursday about a blind woman taking legal action against Coles regarding the accessibility of their website (supports our known definition
accessibility). A good one for this topic. The outcome of the case will be interesting.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/blind-woman-launches-court-action-against-coles-over-its-website/5869874">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-05/blind-woman-launches-court-action-against-coles-over-its-website/5869874</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Heath Matheson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gary Vear<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 9 November 2014 5:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I share your frustration with the unusual interpretation of key terms and concepts evident in a few of the exam questions. I taught my students to believe that improving the
‘accessibility’ of an information solution meant accommodating the needs of users who may suffer from a particular disability (hearing/ vision impairment, poor motor skills, etc.), so I can only hope that my Year 12s had enough sense to see that the exam was
asking about something quite different than what I taught them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I also have an issue with multiple choice Q10 (efficiency vs effectiveness), regarding the ‘ease of backing up files’, since ‘ease of use’ (as I’ve noted in the past) can refer
to either efficiency or effectiveness, depending on where you get your information from the VCAA website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Effectiveness = ‘ease of use’ (<a href="http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ict/glossary.html"><span style="color:windowtext">http://vels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/ict/glossary.html</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Efficiency = ‘ease of use’ (Study Design glossary, p. 13,
<a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/infotech/infotechsd2011-2014.pdf">
<span style="color:windowtext">http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Documents/vce/infotech/infotechsd2011-2014.pdf</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Certainly the Study Design should be gospel for VCE students, but shouldn’t we also be teaching the same definitions to our Yr 7-10 students in the name of consistency?
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<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, November 09, 2014 1:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yes. I tried a 'disabilities' answer and could not make it fly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hopefully the stronger students managed to cope with the weird use of VCE IT conventions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I worry mainly about the others who expect examiners to behave nicely and obey the conventions that the students were told were sacred.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It's really not fair to earnestly teach kids basic principles all year, and have an exam overturn them - as if the question writer did not actually teach ITA, and only read the study design.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On the same tack, I'm still not happy with A1, which I believe misunderstood the VCE IT interpretation of 'storyboard', which the study design clearly intends (e.g. p.65, "using a range of design tools including a sitemap,
layouts and storyboard, redesign your school’s website") to be a website design tool, not an animation design tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> The only reason I'm not livid about that was because the other options were all worse than the 'correct' one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It worries me how questions like this get through to publication...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On 9 November 2014 13:36, Ben Hines <<a href="mailto:b.hines@ccg.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">b.hines@ccg.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But the question really doesn't seem to be leaning this way? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: Mark <br>
Date:09/11/2014 13:22 (GMT+10:00) <br>
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List <br>
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] ITA exam - B2 - accessibility <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Does anyone else have a sneaking fear that this second question in section B is misinterpreting the word "accessibility"?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We in VCE IT have (AFAIK) always understood 'accessibility' as referring to catering for special needs or disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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'...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">"In this study the elements related to functionality are structure, usability and accessibility, including navigation and load time, appropriateness and relevance."</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">This makes it sound like accessibility includes navigation and load time (curse their ambiguous punctuation) which is definitely not related to disabilities. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Yet the Nelson/Potts textbooks seems to agree that 'accessibility' relates to factors like colour blindness, reduced language skills etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The problem is that I can't find a VCE IT source for this 'accessibility' convention.
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Does anyone remember where this interpretation of accessibility came from years ago?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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