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Premiere Provider of On-line Learning On Accessible Information Technology

Premiere Provider of On-line Learning On Accessible Information Technology. My Goal for You Today. Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu

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Premiere Provider of On-line Learning On Accessible Information Technology

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  1. Premiere Provider of On-line Learning On Accessible Information Technology

  2. My Goal for You Today • Norman Coombs nrcgsh@rit.edu • My goal is for you to understand that you have the power to change the lives of students with disabilities with the most level learning space in history and prepare them to lead rich and full lives after graduation.

  3. Presentation Will Cover: • Adaptive IT technology • Why adapt & for whom? • Electronic curb cuts • Web accessibility • Online content accessibility

  4. Twenty Years • What’s a historian want with a computer? • Communication tool • Compensatory device • Teaching is communication • Computers don’t have to be impersonal

  5. Why Adapt for Disabilities? • It’s the right thing to do • It makes economic sense • It’s the law • Do it for yourself

  6. It’s the Law • Voc Rehab 504 • IDEA • ADA • Voc Rehab 508

  7. It’s the Law • Equal education based in VR 504 and IDEA • Rights to effective, timely, equivalent communication based in ADA • Procurement standards based in VR508

  8. Digital Curbcuts • Ethnicity • Gender • Age • Socio-economics • Learning styles • Disabilities

  9. New Yorker Cartoon

  10. E-learning and Ethnicity “What I like about this way of having class is that you are judged for what you say rather than for being Red, White, Yellow, Black, Deaf, Blind or Green.”

  11. E-learning and Gender • Computer game designers found that girls do well at relational games while boys do well with action games • Females also do well with distance learning that is interactive

  12. E-learning and Shyness • “In class I am afraid of sounding stupid and getting ‘crazy looks’, and I get tongue-tied. I can talk here more freely.” • Where there’s no stagethere’s no stage fright

  13. E-learning and Learning Styles • Work independently • Work at your own pace • Work at your own time of day • Potential to present material in both visual and auditory formats

  14. Types of Disabilities • Blind • Low vision • Motor Impairments • Learning Disabilities • Deaf • Hearing Impaired

  15. Types of Software • Screen readers • Screen magnification • Onscreen keyboards • Other keyboard alternatives • Voice recognition • OCR software

  16. Who Has A Disability? • Functional definition of disability • A disability is a mismatch between the person and the interface

  17. Web Guidelines and Standards • Web Access Initiative guidelines • Web Access Initiative quicktips • Section 508 Federal standards

  18. Web Advantages and Disadvantages • For blind users • For low vision users • For users with motor impairments • For users with visual and cognitive processing difficulties • For user with hearing impairments

  19. Simulating a Disability • In your browser turn off “show images” • Instead of the mouse, use tab and enter key for navigation • Navigate with the mouse using your left or other hand

  20. Quick Tips Summary • Images and animations • Image maps • Multimedia • Hypertext links • Page organization

  21. Quick Tips Summary • Graphs and charts • Scripts applets and plug-ins • Frames • Tables • Check your work!

  22. Accessibility Checkers • www.access-board.gov • www.w3.org/wai • www.aprompt.ca • www.cast.org/bobby • Watchfire.com

  23. E-learning Accessibility • Access to the courseware equals access to the physical building • Access to the content equals access to the class lectures and discussion in the physical classroom

  24. Access to the Courseware • Courseware systems are concerned to meet the 508 standards and increasingly also the WAI guidelines: • Blackboard • eCollege • WebCT • HorizonLive

  25. Different Content Designers • Web designers • Multimedia designers • Word processor designers • Text only providers • PowerPoint users • www.rehab.uiuc.edu

  26. Special Needs • Blind and graphics, images, charts and PDF. • Deaf and audio and audio of video • Deaf and clear, direct writing • LD and short clear content, clear simple structure of content

  27. Your Attitude Is Important Do not just be politically correct! BUT REMEMBER: Students with disabilities are students who happen to have a disability

  28. Students Not Technology • It’s about people • Not about technology • As you travel through this life whatever be your goalKeep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole!

  29. EASI Courseswww.rit.edu/~easi • Barrier-free Info Tech • Barrier-free Web Design • Advanced Web Design • Barrier-free E-learning • Train the Trainer • LD & Accessible IT • Business Benefits of Accessible Design

  30. EASI Synchronous clinics • Summer Institute Special offer: • Series of free, Web conferencing, interactive, voice-chat presentations • Easi.cc/cbox/free.htm (password is “online”)

  31. Thank You • Thank you for caring enough to make the world of information technology a better place for me and for thousands of others just like me!

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