H5P is a free and open-source platform for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content. Since it has been released in 2013, it has made the life of educators easier with its tools. The educators can use the H5P platform to create different types of interactive content easily. In this post, we will see which H5P content types are accessibility friendly and can be used for creating more accessible courses.
Few months back, H5P community team has released the list of the accessible content types and recommended by the H5P project. If you are also a modern educator and using H5P to create different types of interactive content you can consider the recommendations to create accessible course for your learners.
|
Content Type |
Accessible |
Maintained by the core team |
|
Accordion |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Agamotto |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
AR Scavenger |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Arithmetic Quiz |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Audio |
If text alternative is added |
✔ Yes |
|
Audio Recorder |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Branching Scenario |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Chart |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Collage |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Column |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Complex Fill in the Blanks |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Cornell Notes |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Course Presentation |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Crossword |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Dialog Cards |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Dictation |
❌ No (providing a text alternative won’t make sense) |
❌ No |
|
Documentation Tool |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Drag and Drop |
✔ Yes (Note: Must have visible labels for dropzones/draggables) |
✔ Yes |
|
Drag the Words |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Emoji Cloud |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Essay |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Fill in the Blanks |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Find the Hotspot |
❌ No |
✔ Yes |
|
Find Multiple Hotspots |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Flashcards |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Guess the Answer |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Image Choice |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Iframe Embedder |
Depends on the content |
❌ No |
|
Image Hotspots |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Image Juxtaposition |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Image Sequencing |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Image Slider |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Information Wall |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Interactive Book |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Interactive Video |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
KewAr Code |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Mark the Words |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Multi Poll |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Memory Game |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Multiple Choice |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Personality Quiz |
❌ No |
❌ No |
|
Quiz (Question Set) |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Questionnaire |
❌ No |
✔ Yes |
|
Single Choice Set |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Sort the Paragraphs |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Speak the Words |
❌ No |
✔ Yes |
|
Speak the Words set |
❌ No |
✔ Yes |
|
Structure Strip |
✔ Yes |
❌ No |
|
Summary |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
The Chase |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Timeline |
Unknown |
❌ No |
|
True/false |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Twitter User Feed |
Unknown |
❌ No |
|
Virtual Tour (360) |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
|
Word Cloud |
✔ Yes |
✔ Yes |
Kindly note that the content types mentioned as accessible are known to have no accessibility issues. All the recommended content types are having WCAG 2.1 AA support. When a content type is listed in red it means that the H5P Team does not recommend using it and is not actively fixing problems with it.
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