Live Session Exam Info (2024)

Hello and welcome back to this live tutoring section. I'm going to start with first a little bit about the general examination and then we're going into the main content of this lecture, which is forms.

and forms are great. We use them all the time. Including this, like buttons and stuff like that,

but let's not get distracted like that, I tell myself. So all the way at the bottom,

like after everything that we have here, we have the examination section. I don't know why it's not

expanded but you should be able to expand it um and there you can look at what we're going to do

so i just talked to um uh to madeline and uh and the due date will be the 10th of january so i try

to give you like over the holidays you know some some time uh and so uh that will be good i will

that here to the deadline and make also sure that it's like, um, yeah, and the metadata here.

So what we want you to do for the basic, like passing grade G is that you do like a mini

accessibility audit, like don't get super like scared by it. I think when, when you, when we

we get there, you can do this relatively easily. And so we want you to do some checks and just

explain your thinking behind it and what you would recommend maybe, all of those different things.

And as the structure, we have chosen the W3C way, easy checks. Now, there is a new version of easy

checks out that is in draft. So it's not out technically, but like, yeah, it's both on the,

on the website. You can use either one, like it shouldn't make a big difference, I guess.

So if you use the old version, it says first review of web accessibility at the top. And

And then it has these like, what are there, six, eight, ten things that you can test.

And the nice thing about Easy Checks is like, let's say for alternative text, it basically

talks you through what to check for and getting that feeling for like what's going on.

And then it also gives you here at the bottom some checks for relatively old browser plugins and stuff like the IEWAT, Web Accessibility Toolbar.

Internet Explorer doesn't exist for many, many years now.

So, yeah, this is the old version.

if you look at the new version which is here at EasyChecks draft update it's nice that they put

it like right underneath each other. Basically see that the checks are in on different pages

and they're like they have like nice icons now and that's all great but it's basically the same

So if you go to "Image Alternative Text", you can see how to check it. There's an example. You can click on the button to check it inline, which is pretty nice.

So yeah, you can go through this and it has new descriptions and stuff like that.

So you get these little buttons, these little bookmarklets that work.

And you can basically drag that into your bookmarks.

I've shown this before and they have now their own, which is pretty neat.

And then you get this little box that guides you through to this page,

so you can learn more about the checking.

That's actually pretty nice.

Yeah, but you can use both.

They have a couple of more things in there in the new one, which is great.

but you know the old one is the primary way to look at it. Yeah if you want answers to the stuff in the chat I cannot read the Swedish text at least not like multitasking just FYI.

But I guess you handle that amongst y'all, I have trust.

Good.

So that's what we want to do.

Color contrast, structure of headings, keyboard, etc.

There are a couple.

You don't need to test really everything.

Like if you say, for example, there is a test about captions or video,

and there's no video on the pages, then that's totally okay.

If you want, you know, find a page on a different website and check that.

We don't really super care what type of website you're checking.

It could be something that you're working on anyway.

It could be, you know, something you're interested in.

I would suggest that you don't look at like, you know, I don't know, Facebook or YouTube or something like that, because those are going to be like really hard and weird and stuff.

So, you know, maybe look at hotels or like, you know, I don't know, something like that.

News pages are generally relatively good to make these on.

And then, you know, prioritize your findings and propose some solutions to it.

You know, you don't need to like go in depth and be like super descriptive, like just bullet points, couple of sentences.

Totally fine.

Eric, I read on this before the session today, and I was just wondering, it said something about choose three pages for comparison.

So does that mean that for everything we check, we check it on three different pages?

Three pages of the same website.

So the idea is that you have, for example, a homepage and a news page and a contact form, for example.

And we do like page heading check on all those three pages.

Yeah, optimally you do that.

you know usually the pages are so similar that you don't need to like go in depth with it and so if

you if you only find like an issue on one page that's usually enough you don't need to like you

know be too detailed okay um yeah so yeah don't don't like and and we we had that in the past like

i'm always like you know i try to like guide you to to do like a minimal viable product here

like the goal is not you know to have like a super high bar or make it difficult we just want to like

see that you learn something and so we also want the report to be short like five pages 15 pages

like that should be the 15 pages should be the absolute maximum that you're doing like including

screenshots and descriptions and whatever you want to to have there so if you have three pages

And you have like two big screenshots for every page.

It's like really short, like concentrate on what you think is important.

I think that's a good phrase to do it.

And if you, during the time until January the 10th,

If you think, oh, I don't know if this is enough or if I should do more or if something is missing, feel free to just reach out using Slack and say, hey, Eric, can you take a look and tell me if this is enough?

And then I will say, yes, it's enough.

That's usually how that goes.

Because if you ask, you're probably on the side of the people who have done plenty.

And yeah, just, you know, just going through looking at three pages of one website and do this like general analysis.

Yeah, so that's what you need to do like to get a passing grade.

And then there's the VG level of like, you know, getting a very good grade.

And that is doing that and also recording a video pitch.

you don't need to be on the screen you know uh but just like doing like a short presentation

just saying like oh this is what we find this is what um what we would prioritize um and you know

imagine you're inside of the organization uh who does this um uh website who has done the review

and now you can decide what the priorities are and just like you know talk about it

And you can do it in Swedish or in English, doesn't matter. We will split it up and usually that works quite well.

Yeah. And here is like in detail, you know, the details of the assignment.

I think it's hopefully pretty clear if something is not clear you know there's always slack uh and uh

and feel free to reach out to me or to Hampus uh probably not to Hampus like this week or beginning

of next week because he's in Japan um but otherwise uh you know feel free to just say like hey what's

what's going on here. Yeah. And you know, there's no minimum thing that you need to do. Like if you're,

if you manage to find like a website that's super good, you could say, you know, this is a super

good website. It wouldn't like give us as much, but like, you know, technically we can't,

can't fault you there. But, but yeah, that's, that's what we'd like to do. When you,

get this you can at the top right

this was not there before so you can click on start attempt on the top right and then you get this

little form at the bottom and this is where you can upload your stuff so you can upload the file here

at a comment you can use studio whatever that is google drive is twice there

I would just upload it maybe as a word or if you have Google Drive, you know, if you have Google Doc, I think you can link that from here.

Okay, that's not available.

Masquerading.

Nice wording.

But yeah, or you just send us a link to your stuff on Slack.

that also works like we want to make the the bar low uh don't sweat it too much it's nice if it's

in there because then we have it um on our um overview uh an important point if you make updates

to your thing so you have until january the 10th maybe you say oh i want to be done before christmas

which is like great i support that um and you have the time and you do it and you upload it and then

you find an issue or you want to add to your submission, for us to make it easier, or no,

let's say differently, to make sure we don't overlook something because the back end is

a little bit, some things are hard to find.

Always upload all the files again.

Like if you create, if you upload like a document and an image and a video, and then you only upload the document again, it will be seen as like a new version of your assignment.

And so we will not at least immediately see your video and the other files that you added to it.

So, you know, try to upload it. All we try to find stuff that is uploaded in previous versions, of course. But we had that once, I think two years ago now, where someone uploaded, like made change, uploaded it, and we didn't see other stuff that they uploaded.

um and it was like and they only got like the g um a grade and they were like but i but i did the thing

and we were like oh we didn't see the thing and then we looked at it and it was like a version

behind so um don't uh you know uh you can also add a comment like you know only changed presentation

or something like that um we we will figure this out like uh you know our goal our goal is that you

complete this course. So we will try to support you wherever we can, especially with this user

interface. I don't find it super intuitive. So yeah, we're trying to do our best. Any questions?

In the chat, it says, can we upload the zip archive with all the files,

or do you want all files uncompressed and separate? Doesn't matter to me. We will upload it onto a shared drive anyway, so we can all look at the same data. So basically, once you have submitted it on January the 10th, we will go around and take all files offline and sort them in and then look at them.

So yeah, feel free to upload zip archives. Just don't upload viruses. That would be nice. But apart from that, it's all good. Good question. Any other questions? Going? Going, done. Okay. No problem if there are any further questions. Always feel free to reach out on Slack.

and we take care of it.

Okay.

And of course,

during these kinds of meetings as well,

or if you book a one-on-one,

also no problem to talk about stuff.

Okay, I will now stop the recording

and then start the recording again.

And then we will do like the rest.

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