It Takes an Ecosystem – How Brightspace and our partners are making education accessible to every learner
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The document discusses the importance of accessibility in education, highlighting various assistive technologies and their impact on learners with disabilities. It emphasizes that improving accessibility benefits all learners, offers competitive advantages, and aligns with civil rights laws. Additionally, the document provides strategies for securing campus support for accessibility initiatives.
It Takes an Ecosystem – How Brightspace and our partners are making education accessible to every learner
- 1. It Takes an Ecosystem How Brightspace and our partners are making education accessible to every learner
- 2. Our Speakers Sheri Hutchinson – Readspeaker Ph.D., Business & LMS Implementation Manager Art Morgan – Automatic Sync VP of Partner Development
- 3. AGENDA 1. Accessibility Policy and Trends 2. Solutions for Vision and Learning Disabilities 3. Solutions for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 4. Getting Buy-in for Accessibility on Campus
- 4. Vision and Learning Assistance
- 5. Accessibility Laws • 36 Million Americans with Hearing Loss • Dyslexia 15% of the US population • 12% Age Related Vision Loss • Web Accessibility Laws protect the civil rights of people with disabilities.
- 6. Quality Learning Experiences Improved accessibility not only better reaches your learners with disabilities, but improves experiences for all. Improving accessibility can also provide a competitive advantage. Universally designed products and tools improve the quality of content. Access to content via mobile devices is essential in our connected society.
- 7. ADA Compliance is part of our connected lives
- 8. Assistive Technology Assistive technologies include: •Screenreaders •Mobility devices like scooters •Mobile apps •Smart Pens •Glasses •Magnifiers •Braille •Speech-to-text technology •Closed captions •And more!
- 9. Technology The web and assistive technologies are opening up access to information and opportunities to populations who were excluded before- by circumstance, or by other means.
- 10. Sir Tim Berners-Lee W3C Director Inventor of the World Wide Web Learn More: Webaim.org The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
- 11. Ghost Voices: Using-Text-to-Speech Technology to Improve the Quality of Learning Online
- 12. Visual and Learning Disabilities and Assistive Technology Assistive Screenreaders are frequently used to assist those with low vision, low literacy, or learning disabilities to more easily access text. Assistive Screenreaders are often difficult to operate, require a download, have limited voice change options and may not be customizable. ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech tool to bring text- based lectures, Docs, PDF’s, or Articles to life and portable voice content. • Can be downloaded as an MP3 for portability. • View who and how often content is accessed.
- 13. Robot Voices are Ghosts of the Past Today with ReadSpeaker Mobile Friendly Easy to Use Cost Effective High Quality Voices Customizable
- 14. Universal Design for High Quality Considerations for UDL Accessible and Universal Design for Online Content Multitaskers Low vision Dyslexia Cognitive Disorders English Language Learners Literacy Improvement First Generation Students Low Income
- 15. Adaptive and User-Centered • Change Highlighting and text font colors • Speed up or Slow Down Reading • Increase text visibility
- 16. Bi-Modal Learning Improved Learning Results Supports Accessibility Motivates Learners Increased Literacy
- 17. TextAid Integrating Enterprise Highlighting & Text Reader/Writer On Any Device • Select New Text Button • Paste Text • Click Listen • Read OCR Text Images • Read Highlighted Text • Upload Files to your Library “I’m a Reader!”
- 18. Solutions for Reading Fatigue & more Online text-to-speech allows a diverse and connected user access to learning from anywhere. 40+ languages and 120+ voices • Enterprise Highlighting allows users to listen to text content and even download as an MP3 for portability and multi-tasking. • docReader enables viewing and listening for online PDFs, Word documents, and more on any device. • TextAid to read, write, research and study all in the same tool designed for struggling readers and language learners. • speechCloud API to add voice to mobile apps. • formReader provides vocal assistance to users filling out online forms.
- 19. Solutions for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- 20. Video Accessibility Background •Estimated percentage of adults* who are: • Deaf: 2%+ • Hard of hearing: 13%+ • Easiest/broadest solution is closed captioning • Consistent with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles • Increased comprehension and retention for all learners • Viewer flexibility • Enables indexing, searching, clipping • Caveat: There is a cost/quality trade-off for captioning Source: http://libguides.gallaudet.edu/content.php?pid=119476&sid=1029190
- 22. Quality Captions with One Click
- 23. Video Accessibility Resources • Details on accessibility regulations: http://bit.ly/1zfLbYp • Captioning Guide Whitepaper: http://bit.ly/1EtbpNM • AST’s research on accuracy and comprehension:http://bit.ly/1Dc7IHJ • AST’s blog: http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/category/blog-all/ • AST’s video gallery: http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/about-automatic- sync/video-captioning-gallery/
- 24. Getting Buy-In for Accessibility on Campus
- 25. 5 Tips for Getting Campus Buy-in 1. Recognize that accessibility is a civil right 2. Understand how diversity accelerates innovation 3. Highlight the return on investment for all learners 4. Remind people of the myth of “separate but equal” 5. Point out that this is an ongoing process More details: http://er.educause.edu/articles/2016/1/accessibility-as-a-civil- right
- 26. John Baker President and CEO of D2L Accessibility is an organization-wide mandate and a critical element in all of our research and development efforts. We are committed to ensuring that we are the industry leader in this very important field.” It’s not just a requirement- it’s the right thing to do.
- 27. Additional Info Watch the full Webinar Or Try Now http://www.brightspace.com/trial
Editor's Notes
- #6: Internet Users http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/ 2.9 billion Internet users in the world ≈ 40.4 % of World population About 15% of World population (≈ 1 billion) live with disabilities No less than around 9% of the population has a disability that directly impacts computer use. Though a large portion of these disabilities may be attributed to age related processes, the implications are enormous. World report on disability http://www.who.int/disabilities/world_report/2011/report/en/ Image from pixabay, CC0: https://pixabay.com/en/wheelchair-disability-injured-749985/ Vision 5.5% of Americans 18 to 44 years of age reported having vision loss, 12.0% of Americans 45 to 64 http://www.afb.org/info/blindness-statistics/adults/special-report-on-aging-and-vision-loss/235
- #8: Sheri Anyone can: Watch, Learn, Read, Health, Emergency, Work, Bank, Travel, Education
- #10: Image from Pixabay, CC0 https://pixabay.com/en/girl-mali-reading-the-little-prince-1176165/
- #11: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) : the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Sir Tim Berners-lee is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web; Founder of W3C. Image source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7375703.stm Don’t make Assumptions: some people don’t claim their disability; some may have more than one type of disabilities
- #12: Have you ever wanted to know why your students may not read the materials you post online? Have you considered that students may need a little extra help with reading and writing as they are progressing through your content? Make your online text materials talk as if they were a live lecture.
- #13: Sheri While assistive technologies are effective, UDL flips the model by offering these benefits to all students, allowing them to choose which tools fit them best, even customizing their learning in different paths
- #15: Sheri LMS and Website Universal Design for Learning Every learner has favored methods for obtaining, comprehending, and retaining information.
- #16: Sheri UDL is for adaptability to improve learners comprehension and retention. Appeals to a variety of learning styles and allow for more flexible learning. Universal tools appeal to the wider audience needs.
- #17: Sheri ReadSpeaker offers three different functionalities for Brightspace integration: Enterprise, docReader, and TextAid LTI. Bi-modal allows for increased literacy for English Language learners, provides accessible text, adds a human touch to flat text, enhances vocabulary, improves recall, and can increase motivation to learn. Multitask, mobile users, seniors, dyslexia, low vision, and more benefit.
- #18: Textaid for ADEV, ELL, Dyslexia, and more uses! Loss of voice—cancer, ALS and other
- #19: Sheri
- #24: Details on Accessibility Regulations from AST: http://bit.ly/1zfLbYp Whitepaper: A Captioning Guide for Higher Education http://bit.ly/1EtbpNM AST’s Research on Accuracy and Comprehension: http://bit.ly/1Dc7IHJ AST’s Blog: http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/category/blog-all/ AST video gallery: http://www.automaticsync.com/captionsync/about-automatic-sync/video-captioning-gallery/
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