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Designing Programs for Ensuring Access and Equity for Students with
Disabilitiesor
How to Avoid Jail-Time.Making Digital Resources Accessible.
Ray RoseRose & Smith Associates
This work by Raymond Rose is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
• Universal Design for Learning– Multiple means of representation– Multiple means of Action and Expression– Multiple means of engagement
* referenced in iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online Courses
http://www.cast.org/udl/
UDL ≠ Legal Compliance
Your institution’s obligation:
Meet legal requirements for accessibility in every online course. (That includes blended offerings.)
OCR’s Operational Definition
“those with a disability are able to acquire the same information and engage in the same interactions —and within the same time frame — as those without disabilities.”
OCR Compliance Review 11-11-2128, 06121583, paraphrased from 11-13-5001, 10122118, 11-11-6002
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OCR Finding
Section 504of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
Section 504
Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Vocational Rehabilitation Act, 1973)
– mandates that qualified people with disabilities have access to programs and services that receive federal funds
Institutional 504 Basics
• Appoint 504 Coordinator• Establish 504 Grievance Procedure• Provide annual public notice of Coordinator
and Grievance Procedure
U. S. Department of Justice(DoJ)
• Enforces: ADA, 504, IDEA, Title IV, Title IX
• if qualified individuals with disabilities enroll in online courses, these courses must be made accessible to them
ADA
Title II, Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
ADA
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 (Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990)
– reinforced and extended Section 504– prohibiting institutions from excluding and
otherwise discriminating against students with disabilities in public programs and services,
– regardless of whether or not they are federally funded
• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (U.S. Department of Education, 1998), – requires that electronic and information technologies
that federal agencies procure, develop, maintain, and use
– be made accessible to people with disabilities, both employees and members of the public,
– unless it would pose an undue burden to do so.
• The Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments (1998)– mandated the U.S. Architectural and Transportation
Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) to develop accessibility standards for electronic and information technology to which federal agencies must comply
* “The use of the Accessibility Standards by OCR does not imply that conformance to Section 508, WCAG, and/or other electronic and information technology standard is either required or sufficient to comply with either Section 504 or Title II. Rather, OCR’s limited application of the Accessibility Standards served only as an investigative line of inquiry, assessing the designated website against specific technical requirements, which may indicate potential compliance concerns under Section 504 and Title II.”
*OCR Compliance Review: Docket #15-11-5002 *Boilerplate from OCR Compliance Reports
Captioning for Video andTranscripts for AudioARE NOT A LUXURY
Course Design
Everything needs to be accessible -- inside and outsidethe LMS
Course Design
Make PDFs searchable(If a graphic, follow requirements for graphics)
Course Design
Course navigation without a mouse is possible
Course Design
Courses reviewed with a screen reader*
*Screen reader info in Resources
More..
• Think UDL -- use Alternate Presentations
• Live Video needs to be accessible
• Caption Lecture Capture
Do NOT trust any vendors’ word on accessibility.
– 6 different vendors’ materials cited by OCR in various compliance reports.
PROGRAM and
COURSE MONITORING
Monitoring
Collect disagreggregatedenrollment data for all online courses and programs
Monitoring
Analyze enrollment data for comparison with sending population
Resources
FREE Video Captioning Apps• NCAM.wgbh.org
–MAGpie–CC for FLASH
Resources
Adobe and Accessibility website (PDF info)• www.adobe.com/accessibility.html2014 Access and equity for all learners in blended and online education• http://inacol.org2007 Access and Equity… Publication• http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509623.pdf
NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access) is a free “screen reader” which enables blind and vision impaired people to use computers. It reads the text on the screen in a computerised voice. You can control what is read to you by moving the cursor to the relevant area of text with a mouse or the arrows on your keyboard.