Accessible Materials Made Right #3: Structure and Appearance, Part 2
This course addresses text considerations for documents you and/or your school or organization create. The particular focus for this course is alternative text for images, tables and charts, and closed captioning for video.
Visit Course 3 (https://www.edupaths.org/Pathways/Details/1243)
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Course 2: Structure and Appearance, Part 1
Accessible Materials Made Right #2: Structure and Appearance, Part 1
This course addresses text considerations for documents you and/or your school or organization create. In particular, the focus for this course is on fonts, font size, headers, underlined text and hyperlinks, and other layout structures added to documents to communicate information.
Visit Course 2 (https://www.edupaths.org/Pathways/Details/1242)
This course addresses text considerations for documents you and/or your school or organization create. In particular, the focus for this course is on fonts, font size, headers, underlined text and hyperlinks, and other layout structures added to documents to communicate information.
Visit Course 2 (https://www.edupaths.org/Pathways/Details/1242)
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Course 1: Code and Foundations
Accessible Materials Made Right #1: Code and Foundations
Have you ever used the cut-outs in curbs at crosswalks? What about pushing the buttons to automatically open doors because your hands were full? These are accessibility features that have been developed for individuals needing these access features, but all benefit from the innovations. The same holds true when we make digital content available to all users. This first course addresses the code, or the law, and reasons why accessibility is important.
Visit Course 1 (https://www.edupaths.org/Pathways/Details/1241)
Have you ever used the cut-outs in curbs at crosswalks? What about pushing the buttons to automatically open doors because your hands were full? These are accessibility features that have been developed for individuals needing these access features, but all benefit from the innovations. The same holds true when we make digital content available to all users. This first course addresses the code, or the law, and reasons why accessibility is important.
Visit Course 1 (https://www.edupaths.org/Pathways/Details/1241)
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Accessible Materials Made Right (AMMR)
Over the course of the next 7 weeks I am going to be providing links to a series of short lessons (60 minutes or less) on why we should make digital text accessible and how to do it also.
The information I am sharing comes from Alt+Shift (https://www.altshift.education/). Alt+Shift is a collaborative and impact-focused organization advancing:
Please check out a quick overview of accessible materials and watch a short introduction video at
https://www.altshift.education/professional-learning/self-directed-learning/accessible-materials-made-right-ammr.
The information I am sharing comes from Alt+Shift (https://www.altshift.education/). Alt+Shift is a collaborative and impact-focused organization advancing:
- The belief that every student is capable of learning and thriving within his/her educational environment.
- Educator skills, knowledge and drive to improve learning.
- Partnerships to co-construct systems at all levels to benefit students.
Please check out a quick overview of accessible materials and watch a short introduction video at
https://www.altshift.education/professional-learning/self-directed-learning/accessible-materials-made-right-ammr.
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