The links below will assist faculty by providing information relative to assisting students in their classrooms:
Considerations and Instructional Strategies
Accommodation Definitions
Course
Exams and Accommodations
Disibility Access Statements
Faculty Reference Manual
Definitions
Disability and the Law
Universal Design
Universal design is an approach to the design of all products and environments to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability, or situation (from http://www.udeducation.org/)
The following links will provide you with more information about
Universal Design and resources for creating courses under these
principles.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/extension/ped/northeastADA/publications/Artic
le_60.html
http://www.facultyware.uconn.edu/files/udi2_fact_sheet.pdf
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php
Use of Videos
Because we never know, or sometimes have little notice, when a student
with a disability will be enrolled in a particular course, it is highly
advisable when you are planning out a course and plan to show video
(whether on site or on line) to request the video with captioning.
The mission of the Captioned Media Program (CMP) is to provide all
persons who are deaf or hard of hearing awareness of and equal access to
communication and learning through the use of captioned educational
media and supportive collateral materials.
The Faculty Room is a space created by The University of Washington,
Do-It (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology), for
faculty and administrators at postsecondary institutions to learn about
how to create classroom environments and academic activities that
maximize the learning of all students, including those with
disabilities.
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/
Web Accessibility
As post secondary education moves toward more web based programming and
distance education, including on-line course offerings, accessibility
considerations must be brought to attention and included in these
designs. The following web sites will provide you with resources to do just this:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/accessibility/
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/index.php
http://www.washington.edu/accessit/AU/tutorial/
Creating accessible PDF files:
To convert PDF files:
When they are being created is to save them as Image with text. It may
require a couple of minutes to edit to be sure the right word is there.
For accessibility for all, PDF files need to be converted to image with
text and save. This conversion is on Adobe's standard or professional
versions.
http://studio.adobe.com/us/search/main.jsp
This site has tips and tutorials for creating accessible documents.
Under topic, select accessibility.
Creating accessible PowerPoint® materials
When creating the documents, just save as a webpage and all the tags for
reading will be there.
Microsoft(r) has created a site with tutorials about creating accessible
documents:
http://office.microsoft.com/training/training.aspx?AssetID=RC06380096103
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