improve visual impairment accommodations
We have a child whose results will have no validity because the test does not allow for sufficient visual impairment accommodations. The test needs to allow for:
-Dark mode (white background fatigues the student's eyes)
-Sans serif font (serif font is very difficult to read with the student's impairment)
-Ability to magnify beyond 200% (graphics and math formulas sometimes require greater magnification)
-Ability to magnify charts, graphs, and answer choices (these could not be enlarged/made readable)
The unsecured browser over-rode all the native Visual Impairment settings on the student's laptop and would not allow them to be re-set. Either a true unsecured browser that allows native laptop accommodations to go through or a test that natively accommodates all of these things is critical for assessment.
Wendy Kleinman
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Sean
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Having the text fit to the screen when zoomed is a necessary feature that visually impaired students should have. It is not natural to read sentences that are cut off across the screen and they have to scroll back and forth just to finish a sentence. Then do that over and over for any question/passage that runs the full screen which is most of them on the reading MAP
If the text fit inside the viewing window, then the student is just reading down the page which is way more natural and doesn't hinder the flow of their reading.
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Tony Gabrielse commented
-Dark mode would be an awesome addition.
-I would also suggest, in addition to the Zoom function, that the students be able to adjust the font size.
-Reading across an entire screen can be difficult for students as well. If all the reading passages, no matter how short, could take up the left half of the screen and the questions be on the right that would be helpful too. Just like the longer reading passage questions.