What are my next steps?Incorporating universal design into your own

work and advocating for accessibility in your own institution

NISE Net Universal Design Workshop: July 30th-31st

Several ways you can advocate for this work back home:•Incorporate universal design into your individual projects

•Share the importance of this work with others around your institution

•Develop outside sources that you can consult regarding questions and trainings

Overview

Make universal design part of your individual practice

Beginning on an individual level

Sharing with others within your institution

• Invite others to participate with you

• Host a brown bag about the workshop

• Discuss accessible work at a department or staff meeting

• Arrange meetings about accessibility with management or strategic players within your institution

Sharing with others within your institution

Invite others to participate with you

Sharing with others within your institution

Host a brown bag about the workshop

Reaching outside your institution

• Form an advisory board

• Partner with a local organization or contact that works with people with disabilities

• Consult these contacts to initiate workshops or trainings around accessibility

Reaching outside your institution

Partner with a local organization or contact that works with people with disabilities

Resources• NISE Net universal design guidelines for public programs in science museums http

://www.nisenet.org/sites/default/files/catalog/uploads/2976/ud_guide_programs_11_11_print.pdf

• Team-based inquiry: Practical guide for using evaluation to improve informal

education experiences http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/tools_guides/team-based_inquiry_guide

• ASTC Dimensions- Accessibility: Breaking New Ground

• Tips and techniques for interacting with people with disabilities

• Universal design for learning guidelines http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines

• The principles of universal design http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/about_ud/udprinciplestext.htm

Capacity building activity

• Past prouds: Measures you’ve already taken that can be considered UD

• Present actions: Actions you’ve recently taken or discussed about doing relevant to UD.

• Future plans: What new ideas for UD may be possible?

Small group discussion

• Which techniques may help you move forward with universal design work at your own institution?

• Which past techniques have you used to promote universal design work?

• How can you use TBI to support universal design work?

• Share your elevator speech! o 1 minute spiel that you might give to someone at

your institution about getting started with accessible programming

This presentation is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0940143.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this presentation are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation.