Making Online Teaching Accessible Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities

by Coombs, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780470499047
• ISBN10: 0470499044
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-12
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

As educational institutions rapidly expand into online and hybrid formats, designing with accessibility in mind becomes essential. This book helps online teachers, instructional designers, and content developers avoid inadvertently creating barriers for students with disabilities and comply with government-mandated ADA standards. Grounded in the theories of learner-centered teaching and successful course design, the book explains how to design course content and delivery to be both attractive and accessible to all students, creating better conditions for student learning, success, and satisfaction, and better preparing students to compete in the competitive workplace.

Author Biography

Norman Coombs is CEO of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) and professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology where he pioneered RIT's distance learning program in the early 1980s. Coombs is coauthor of Information Access and Adaptive Technology.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits

Preface

Creating a Level Learning Space

How People with Disabilities Use Computers

Universal Design and Online Learning

Legislation, Decisions, and Guidelines Governing Online Learning

Decisions tThe Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights

Review of OCR Decisions and Online Learning

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Online Learning and Students with Disabilities

Accessibility of the Online Learning Infrastructure

Creating Accessible Online Course Content

The Students' Part of the Equation

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Creating Accessible Content in Word and Excel

An Introduction to Structuring Documents in Word

Creating Well-Structured Documents

Selecting Style Attributes to Enhance Accessibility

Creating a Table of Contents

Making Images in Word Accessible

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Creating Accessible Presentations with PowerPoint

Powerpoint and Universal Design

Designing Accessible Powerpoint Presentations

Creating Narrated Slide Shows

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Delivering Accessible Content

A Word about File Types

Distributing Accessible Word Documents

PDF Documents

Distributing Excel Spreadsheets

Distributing Accessible Powerpoint Content

Online Accessibility Checkers

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math

Historical Issues with Math Accessibility

Authoring Accessible Electronic Math Documents

Issues with Technical Graphics

Providing Accessible Graphics

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Making Multimedia Accessible

The Role of Multimedia in Online Learning

Creating a Transcript

Adding Synchronized Captions to a Video

Accessibility for Real-Time Audio or Video

Take-Aways from This Chapter

Supporting Accessible Online Learning

Section 508 Web Standards

WebAIM Summary of W3C WAI WCAG2

American Foundation for the Blind's Distance Learning. Survey

References

Resources

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