making online learning accessible - a resource guide
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Making Online Learning Accessible Why, What, How
Ira David SocolJames Socol
Michigan State University College of Education
What is Accessibility?What does it look like?
BasicsFirefox plus Add-OnsClick-SpeakFireVoxDSpeech Ghotit Natural ReaderWordTalkPowerTalk
Simple Mac OS TTS
Open System Preferences - it’s the fourth item in the Apple menu. In the “System” section, usually about the fourth line of icons, there is an icon labeled “Speech” which looks like an old fashioned microphone. Click on the Speech icon.
Simple Mac OS TTS
Select any key combination that isn’t already used for something else. Now all you need to do is select some text in an application - I suggest you try it first with Safari or Text Edit - and hit your keys and you should hear Mac OS X read out whatever you have selected!
On Line Text-To-Speech
http://vozme.com/
http://spokentext.net/
http://www.yakitome.com/
Creating Accessible PDFs from Microsoft Word
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/pdf/word/index.html
Creating Accessible PDFs from Scanned Documents
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/pdf/scan/index.html
Creating Accessible PDFs from Online Sources
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/pdf/web/index.html
Accessible PDFs Guidelines/Standards
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/pdf/guidelines.htm
Word
Creating Accessible Microsoft Word Documents
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/word/
PowerPoint
Creating Accessible Microsoft PowerPoints
http://www.webaim.org/techniques/powerpoint/
Video
Creating Accessible OnLine Video
http://www.accesselearning.net/mod4/4_01.php
Web, Blogs, Wikis, Forums
Odiogo
http://www.odiogo.com/
Link Testing
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/tutorials/links-testing.htm
Creating Accessible OnLine Environments
http://www.accesselearning.net/
Accessible Design is Good Design
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/tutorials/access-distance-learning.htm
Dive into Accessibility(downloadable book)
http://diveintoaccessibility.org/
Traditional Books
OnLine Sources
Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg Australia
University of VirginiaLiterature Network
ABC BooksBookshare
Publisher Look Up
http://www.publisherlookup.org/
In ClassFace-to-Face
“Ice Breakers” and Innocent Mistakes
humiliation at the start
Be sure that class activities – especially first class session activities, before you know your students
well – are not “accidentally” humiliating. Physical movement activities, reading aloud, being forced to
write by hand, even speaking in front of a group, can force students into unplanned disclosure.
Handling Computers and Mobiles in the ClassroomAlternative Formats
Alternative Response Forms
What Universal Design looks like
allow students to choose their technology,whether their technology is paper and pen,
a computer, or a mobile phone.
But engage those technologies. Ask those online to look things up, to share…
Response to Student Work
Voice Comments in Word
in Word2007 http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/msoffice/?p=439 in Word2003 http://www.ewu.edu/x63277.xml
Ask.How do students want feedback?
http://www.calstate.edu/accessibility/resources/
Checks and Evaluation
http://webaim.org/http://www.w3.org/WAI/
speedchange.blogspot.com
Making Online Learning Accessible Why, What, How
Ira David SocolJames Socol
Michigan State University College of Education