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  • Presentation
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    3:00PM – 4:00PM PT on Saturday, November 9, 2019

    Learn about the POUR principles for creating and evaluating accessible educational materials that work for all learners.

  • Numbered circle: 3. Acquire

    Learn about three options for acquiring accessible formats for your learners once it has been determined that they need them: accessible media producers, publishers and local conversion.

  • Podcast
    The Accessible Learning Experience | CAST, Illustrations of a microphone, sound waves, digital text, and wifi

    National AEM Center at CAST, 2023

    Learn about the CALM, or Choose Accessible Learning Materials initiative helping drive digital accessibility at Virginia Tech in the latest episode.

  • Report

    AIM Postsecondary Commission, 2011

    This report is based on the shared experiences and perspectives of the 19 stakeholder representatives who make up the AIM Postsecondary Commission. These Commissioners speak with one voice in stating that barriers that would deny students with disabilities their rights to full and complete access to their educational experience are unacceptable in a society that values achievement through education.

  • Video
    AEM Takeaway: Defining the term

    National AEM Center at CAST, 2023

    Build an understanding of what accessibility is and why it is important to have a common understanding of accessibility, especially when working with students with disabilities who require accessible materials and technologies.

  • Podcast
    The Accessible Learning Experience | CAST, Illustrations of a microphone, sound waves, digital text, and wifi

    National AEM Center at CAST, 2022

    In this episode, a team from the Francis Howell school district in Missouri shares their process for collaboration across departments to support more inclusive procurement practices.

  • Presentation
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    2:00PM – 4:45PM ET on Friday, November 8, 2019

    Accessibility of an OER means that all students are afforded the same opportunity to learn from a material, regardless of the tools they use for access. Learner variability is the norm, not the exception, so consideration of the ways students interact with digital materials is essential for curating and authoring inclusive OER.

  • Review the sections of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 related to NIMAS.

  • Get to know the definition of accessible formats in copyright law that helps guide the decision-making process for providing usable formats to learners who need them.

  • Illustration of a series of media representing varied ways of feeling, seeing and hearing content.

    Based on the four POUR principles for accessible design, these questions are meant to help you evaluate the accessibility of digital educational materials prior to selection and procurement.

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