Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Documentation English

Sakai 2.9 Accessibility Documentation Translations

Note: Visual styling is used to emphasize certain content. Italics are used for names of specific content or specific keystrokes.

Summary

Sakai is a Learning Management System created to assist faculty and students by providing online tools for communication, assessment, content delivery, etc.

Sakai is composed of sites, and each site has a number of tools selected by the site creator. There is also a special site, My Workspace, private to you, where you can access personal information and change your settings.

This document is assistive technology agnostic and will briefly describe the different areas of the interface, point out how they are implemented for accessibility, and go into more depth where extra assistance may be needed.

If you need specific help with your assistive technology, please contact your institution's office for Disability Student Services and/or Information Technology Services.

Note: The content depicted in images on this page may differ from what you experience, due to your institutions customization of Sakai.

Contents

• Description of the Environment

  • Portal Organization

  • Content Container details

• Information on Specific Tools

  • Resources

  • Announcements

  • Assignments

• Working with the Rich Text Editor

• Instructions for Enlarging Screen Elements, Modifying Colors/Contrast

• Getting More Help

Description of the Environment

Portal Organization

The portal consists of the following elements. They are always present:

• Quick access "Skip to..." links 

• Login/logout links

• List of favorite sites

• List of tools for the current site

• Minimize tool navigation link

• Footer
  

Quick Access Links ("Skip to...")

Location: The first three links on the page. They are announced by text-to speech software after the page title.

These links enable the user to reach frequently used areas of Sakai.

Login and Logout Links

Login Link

Location: the second link in the portal

This link will take you to a login screen if you are not logged in.  After successful login you will be returned to Sakai.

Logout Link

Location: When logged in, the Logout link is the fifth link after the access key links.

This link will take you to a logout page.

The list of Favorite Sites

• Location:  at the top of the screen
  

  
  Screen capture of Favorite Sites

• Landmark: navigation (“Sites begin here ”)  

• Heading: Level 1 (“Sites begin here ”)

• Access key: [W]
  
  Note: Access keys will be capitalized for clarity only.

This list contains the menu links to sites you most commonly use.  Each menu link will either take you to the site, or if you Tab into the menu and press the Down arrow key, supply you with a submenu of that site’s tools so that you can go straight to that tool on the selected site.

Using the Up and Down arrow keys, you can navigate the submenu to the site specific tool links. These links can be activated using the Enter key.

If you have a large number of favorite sites in this list, some sites will not be displayed due to space limitations. Any sites not displayed are contained in a submenu accessed via the More Sites link (not shown in screen capture), which is the last link in the favorite sites list.  

The rest of the sites you may be a member of can be found in your My Workspace site, This site is always the first link in the favorite sites list, in the Worksite Setup tool .

The List of Tools for the Current Site

The list of tools for the current site is after the list of favorite sites. This list will vary depending on the site, since the site creator chooses what tools to include.