1. Access and Equity in Online Education

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3. Why are you here? Equity/Access advocate Neophyte to the issue Program Manager looking for info ??? 2 © Rose & Smith Associates

4. What numbers do you see? 3 © Rose & Smith Associates

5. 4 © Rose & Smith Associates 5 with normal color vision, 2 with red-green color blindness http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/ishihara.asp

6. Myth or Fact? Myth: Handicapped students can’t handle online courses. Fact: Handicapped students have been successful in online courses since they’ve been available. 5 © Rose & Smith Associates

7. Do We Reach Everyone? Course designers don’t always take into account who might be taking an online course. Mobility impaired (difficulty using a mouse) Visually impaired Auditory impairment 6 © Rose & Smith Associates

8. There’s a Legal (and ethical) Responsibility Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Section 504 of the Rehab Act 7 © Rose & Smith Associates

9. We’re 508 Compliant So We’re Okay Section 508 applies to federally funded websites agencies. Governor’s order makes 508 standards apply to state-funded websites. Because the online delivery platform claims to be 508 compliant that doesn’t make the content compliant. 8 © Rose & Smith Associates

10. How to make content accessible? Provide alternative delivery mechanisms for content. Alt tags (text descriptions) for graphics Transcripts for audio Captioning for video 9 © Rose & Smith Associates

11. NCAM Software… MAGpie, software for adding captions and video descriptions to QuickTime, Windows Media, Real and Flash multimedia CCforFlash, a Flash component that can be used to display captions of Flash video and audio content 10 © Rose & Smith Associates

12. http://ncam.wgbh.org/ ccPlayer and ccMP3Player, players that incorporate CCforFlash components; useful for non-Flash authors who want to add captions to Flash video or audio, respectively NCAM QA Favelet, a tool to help developers identify accessibility problems on Web pages 11 © Rose & Smith Associates

13. How do we make courses accessible? Apply principals of Universal Design for Learning Provide alternative methods of delivering content. Become familiar with adaptive technologies. 12 © Rose & Smith Associates

14. Universal Design for Learning 13 © Rose & Smith Associates

15. UDL Guidelines Principle I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation Principle II. Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression Principle III. Provide Multiple Means of Engagement http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines 14 © Rose & Smith Associates

16. Become Proactive Include access and equity issues in teacher professional development and in course design and delivery standards. 15 © Rose & Smith Associates

17. Resources… http://ncam.wgbh.org/ http://ncam.wgbh.org/invent_build/web_multimedia/tools-guidelines JAWS screen reader http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/jaws-product-page.asp 16 © Rose & Smith Associates

18. Access and Equity in Online Classes and Virtual Schools http://www.inacol.org/research/docs/NACOL_EquityAccess.pdf Universal Design for Learning http://CAST.org http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/ http://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/ 17 © Rose & Smith Associates

19. 18 © Rose & Smith Associates Contact Information Bonnie Bracey-Sutton bonniebraceysutton@emaginosfoundation.org Robert Plants bplants@gmail.com Raymond Rose ray@rose-smith.com http://blogspot.com/rmrose