Physics Classroom is making strides to make our site accessible to everyone.
Our site contains 6 navigation areas. The Primary, Secondary, and Page Level navigations have a screen reader version of their nav structure that allows using the left and right keys to navigate sibling navigation items, and up or down keys to navigate parent or child navigation items. The others can be navigated using tabs.
The Primary Navigation handles the first 2 levels of site pages.
The Secondary (which is not always available) handles the 3rd and 4th level of structure.
The Page level navigation allows you to navigate the current page's headings quickly.
The Header Navigation contains the Light/Dark Mode toggle, Search, Notifications and account login.
The Breadcrumb Navigation contains the breadcrumb of the current page. If the current page has a breadcrumb, you can get to it by skipping to the content and tabbing in reverse (shift plus tab).
The Footer Navigation contains links such as Privacy, Contact, about and terms.
Some resources contain an Audio Player that can be activated by holding down the T key for 3 seconds, and then using K to pause and resume.
While not every area of Physics Classroom is usable purely from keyboard and screen reader, we are committed to continue work on making this possible. If you have questions or need additional help, please use this link to contact us.
Physics Classroom has been around for decades. As the site and the internet has grown, some resources have collected dust and aren't as useful as they once were. We hate throwing away content, so below are a couple additional resources and aids just in case someone finds use for them.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and a GIF animation is worth a thousand words multiplied by the number of frames - or something like that. The Multimedia studio contains various images and GIF animations to help explain visually various Physics Concepts. Many of these animations can be found in our Tutorial lessons, but some are found only here. If your students are struggling to visual a concept, check these out!
Before Instagram, there was Flickr, a place to share images. Physics Classroom has an old Flickr Group that shared many physics related pictures to help students see how Physics is everywhere around us. Organized by Unit and lesson, these photo galleries can be great ways to show your students the fact that physics matters.