Accessibility

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Comment by Jacky Hood on January 26, 2012 at 3:41pm

CC BY licensed Accessible Physics Concepts for Blind Students http://cnx.org/content/col11294/latest/

CC BY licensed Accessible Objected-Oriented Programming Concepts for Blind Students http://cnx.org/content/col11349/latest/

Comment by Carla De Winter on December 7, 2011 at 11:37pm

Hi everyone,

please find the presentation and proceedings (page 311 and following) of the accessibility evaluation here:

- http://www.epr.eu/aegis/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/6-ACCESSIBILITY-...

- http://www.epr.eu/aegis/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/AEGIS_Conference...

The conference was followed by the European Day of People with Disabilities (Brussels), organized by the European Commission in cooperation with the European Disability Forum (EDF), that represents the interest of 80 million people with disabilities.

Also, at the same time, the International Day of People with Disabilities was held in New York.

Comment by Una Daly on November 2, 2011 at 10:31am

Welcome to Carla De Winter, founder of AccessCapable, and project manager at Virtual Ability who wrote the paper about the College Open Textbooks Accessibility Evaluation and is presenting later on this month at the European Aegis Conference. 

http://collegeopentextbooks.ning.com/events/aegis-international-con...


Carla - please feel free to post your paper in the group here for other interested in this important topic to better serve all learners regardless of disability.

Comment by Una Daly on September 26, 2011 at 10:17pm

Interesting article from Jared Smith at WebAim about doing accessibility user testing the right way i.e. focus on broad usability issues rather than looking for specific accessibility problems.

Comment by Una Daly on June 2, 2011 at 8:55pm

Try out WAVE 5, a new and redesigned version of the tool for website accessibility, is available for pre-alpha testing from webaim.org.   Read more about it from Jared Smith

Comment by Una Daly on May 31, 2011 at 10:35am

New guide released by Department of Education on May 26, 2011 to clarify the laws and rules that colleges and universities must follow to ensure e-readers and other devices meet accessibility requirements for students particularly those with vision impairment. More details in the Higher Ed Chronicle.

Comment by Jacky Hood on May 28, 2011 at 7:06am

Brian Bridges has started a blog series on accessibility: Online Courses and Accessibility, Part 1. Brian's blog does not have a URL for each post so you may need to dig a little to find this one if you are looking long after May 27 2011.

Comment by Una Daly on May 26, 2011 at 3:54pm

Thanks for sharing that great information, Gerry!  Many of our students are your future students if we are successful so yet another reason for us all to work together on this ...

Comment by Gerry Hanley on May 26, 2011 at 11:38am

Hi everyone - Thank you Una for leading this community.  

 

I'd like to share various resources we've been developing in the California State University System on accessiblity that might be helpful for this group

 

We have an open professional development and training materials website on accessibility - http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/access/

 

We also have a section on accessibility on the CSU's Affordable Learning Solutions website  http://als.csuprojects.org/accessibility 

 

MERLOT has over 1,600 open textbooks catalogged within its collection and you can check these out at http://als.csuprojects.org/free-textbooks 

 

If there are things we can do in MERLOT to help advance the OT and/or accessibility agenda, let me know.

Cheers,
Gerry

Comment by Una Daly on March 16, 2011 at 7:09am

Google Apps continue to have accessibility issues for the visually impaired, Higher Ed Chronicle article about universities that have been sued and are working with Google to fix.

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