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  • Presentation

    4:30PM – 5:30PM ET on Thursday, January 25, 2024

    Accommodating individuals with disabilities using assistive technologies can be beneficial in a wide variety of job settings. In this session, speakers in the Transition and Workplace Accessibility Strand are invited to introduce themselves and provide a preview of their presentation.

  • Screenshot of the AEM Pilot tool

    The AEM Pilot is an interactive web-based tool that guides K-12 districts and states to become more inclusive learning spaces for students with disabilities. Building background knowledge about accessible educational materials and technologies, conducting self-assessments, and monitoring continuous progress are all facilitated by the AEM Pilot.

  • Presentation
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    4:00PM – 5:30PM ET on Thursday, July 21, 2022

    Perspectives and recommendations will be provided on how to use the Quality Indicators to educate institutional leadership on the cross-cutting effort required to create a coordinated system for providing accessible materials and technologies.

  • Webinar
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    3:00PM – 4:00PM ET on Monday, May 11, 2020

    Join us for this webinar as we take a deep dive into (1) distinguishing the meanings of "accessibility" and (2) clarifying what it means in the context of access for students with disabilities.

  • Presentation
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    9:20AM – 10:20AM ET on Thursday, January 30, 2020

    Learn how to make self-created K-12 and higher ed STEM curriculum materials - including documents, graphics, and videos - accessible to all learners. The four accessible design principles of POUR will be applied to STEM-related course content through a series of material makeover demonstrations. Common examples of materials created by K-12 and higher ed STEM faculty will be first displayed in traditional formats, followed by POUR-aligned accessible versions. Skills covered in this session will include best practices for writing alt text and descriptions for technical images, charts, and graphics; creating closed captions and audio descriptions for video; the application of MathML in documents and websites to make mathematical and scientific notation accessible; and tools for making coding and basic computer science concepts accessible for all learners.

  • Presentation
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    8:30AM – 9:30AM ET on Friday, January 28, 2022

    Panelists represent AT leadership perspectives from the local, national, and international levels. They will share their perceptions of technology systems change and consider how the AT field can develop the next generation of AT leaders to meet future demands.

  • Adults in a workplace environment collaborating

    Explore the coordinating systems needed for Workforce Development and learn how to develop or revise a workforce development system to address best practices for the provision of accessible materials and technologies.

  • Presentation

    11:00AM – 12:00PM ET on Tuesday, September 26, 2023

    Join this session to gain insight on easy-to-implement techniques that can help the busy educator or service provider vet technology tools for accessibility. Participants will learn to quickly to decide which tools should be loved (and kept) and which ones should be…listed (as in passed on).

  • Guide

    AEM Center at CAST, 2022

    This guide is also designed to prepare individuals to be active and meaningful contributors to a team that is working toward systemic changes in programmatic accessibility as it relates to workforce development

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

    National AEM Center at CAST, 2023

    In this Season 2 bonus episode, we interview two members of the South Carolina Department of Education and discuss how they improved digital accessibility within the agency and for districts across the state.

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