Making Online Teaching Accessible
Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities
Published on 13. September 2010
192 pages
978-0-470-89242-8 (ISBN)
Description
Making Online Teaching Accessible offers online teachers,instructional designers, and content developers a comprehensiveresource for designing online courses and delivering course contentthat is accessible for all students including those with visual andaudio disabilities.
Grounded in the theories of learner-centered teaching andsuccessful course design, Making Online Teaching Accessibleoutlines the key legislation, decisions, and guidelines that governonline learning. The book also demystifies assistive technologiesand includes step-by-step guidance for creating accessible onlinecontent using popular programs like Microsoft Office and AdobeAcrobat, as well as multimedia tools.
Including a wealth of helpful tips and suggestions foreffectively communicating with disabled students, the book containspractical advice on purchasing accessible course managementsystems, developing solutions for inaccessibility issues, andcreating training materials for faculty and staff to make onlinelearning truly accessible.
"This valuable how-to book is a critical tool for allinstructional designers and faculty who teach online. Coombs' manyyears as a pioneer of online teaching show in his deep knowledge ofthe principles that can allow the reader to apply these lessons toany learning management system (LMS)."
--Sally M. Johnstone, provost and vice presidentacademic affairs, Winona State University, Minnesota; formerexecutive director of WCET at WICHE
"As more and more of our social and professional lives come tobe mediated by technology, online accessibility is a fundamentalright, not a luxury. This book is a must-read for anyone concernedwith maximizing access to learning."
--Richard N. Katz, former vice president and foundingdirector, EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research
"This valuable book reflects Coombs' unique experience andcommitment to the best teaching, learning, and accessibilityoptions for all kinds of students and teachers."
--Steven W. Gilbert, founder and president, The TLTGroup-Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group
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Making Online Teaching Accessible
Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities
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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.
Content
List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.
Preface.
ONE Creating a Level Learning Space.
How People with Disabilities Use Computers.
Universal Design and Online Learning.
Legislation, Decisions, and Guidelines Governing OnlineLearning.
Decisions tThe Department of Education's Office for CivilRights.
Review of OCR Decisions and Online Learning.
Take-Aways from This Chapter.
TWO 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.
THREE 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.
FOUR Creating Accessible Presentations withPowerPoint.
Powerpoint and Universal Design.
Designing Accessible Powerpoint Presentations.
Creating Narrated Slide Shows.
Take-Aways from This Chapter.
FIVE 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.
SIX 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.
SEVEN 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.
EIGHT Supporting Accessible Online Learning.
Appendix A: Section 508 Web Standards.
Appendix B: WebAIM Summary of W3C WAI WCAG2.
Appendix C: American Foundation for the Blind's DistanceLearning. Survey.
References.
Resources.
