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Academic Accommodations and Universal Access

Academic Accommodations and Universal Access. By: Toni Howard- Director Andrea Engle- Academic Accommodation Specialists E-text. ADA/ Section 504. Civil Rights Legislation Provide equal access E quivalent ease of use Undue burden Fundamental alteration.

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Academic Accommodations and Universal Access

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  1. Academic Accommodations and Universal Access By: Toni Howard- Director Andrea Engle- Academic Accommodation Specialists E-text

  2. ADA/ Section 504 • Civil Rights Legislation • Provide equal access • Equivalent ease of use • Undue burden • Fundamental alteration Faculty Advocacy Notification Memo

  3. What is Accessibility? • “Accessible” means that individual with disabilities are able to independently acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services within the same timeframes as individuals without disabilities, with substantially equivalent ease of use. – DOE, OCR, University of Montana No. 1012218 • “Equally effective” means that the alternative format or medium communicates the same information in as timely a fashion as does the original format or medium.

  4. Course Material Selections • Selecting Textbooks • Select Early • Consider a suggested publisher • Graphic Novels • Select Captioned materials • Frontline/PBS- Most captioned • www.22frames.com • www.moviesubtitles.net • www.amara.org • Audio described video materials • http://acb.org/adp/index.html

  5. Course materials 3rd party software other materials • Aleks • MyLabs • Connect • Lecture Tools • Aplia • Mastering Labs • Adobe Connect • Blackboard (Collaborate) • Video Conferencing • PDF • Word • PowerPoint • YouTube Videos • Lecture Captures • Library Reserves

  6. Example • Inaccessible PDF/ accessible PDF • Word Tips • E-text Example of NVDA Reading • YouTube Captioning • Auto Captioned • Closed Captioned

  7. Training Dates

  8. Links to Website • Tutorials can be found at http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student-disability-services/access.html • General Accessibility information http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student-disability-services/faculty.html • Assistive Technology Initiative

  9. Suggested Publishers • MCG • Pearson • Prentice Hall • Wesley • Allyn & Bacon • Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing • CQ Press • Elsevier • F.A. Davis Company • John Wiley & Sons • Jones & Bartlett Learning • Lynne Rienner Publishers • Cengage Learning • Houghton Mifflin • Mariner • Thompson • Wadsworth • Springer Publishing • W.W. Norton

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