Accessibility

One of the reasons PebblePad was developed with a Flash user interface was its potential for the highest possible level of usability – a fundamental aspect of accessibility. Although usability is often sacrificed to accommodate accessibility sometimes creating systems which are technically accessible but challenging for all users, our overriding design brief was to create a very usable learning tool.

PebblePad provides a customisable interface to suit the individual needs for any user including customisable text size, font style, background colours in both the main interface and the recording wizards.

In addition to this we provide logical tab ordering, every image has alternative text and keyboard navigation is available throughout the system. PebblePad presents a structured way of guiding the user through interface & recording wizards with context sensitive help for support & help. Furthermore, PebblePad uses icons to indicate different aspects of the program, creating visual clues for the user. All of the HTML outputs are standards compliant and offer complete style sheet functionality.

The current version of PebblePad is self voicing using the latest in Text–To–Speech technology.

Whilst this level of support allows us to claim a certain level of accessibility, we intend to continue to improve PebblePad to ensure that we have a system which is available to the widest possible range of users.