Alt Format Resources:
Accessible Curriculum
AHEAD E-text Solutions Group
The E-text Solutions Group focuses on policies, procedures, and best practices in providing the accommodation of digital text for those students who have disabilities that limit their ability to access print in standard ways: blindness, visual impairment, learning disability, and certain mobility impairments.
Working in colaborarion with other stakeholders the group is committed to finding solutions to the issue of providing students with print disabilities access to books and other media in a manner that is timely and accurate and, as nearly as possible, allows the disabled student to obtain the information needed for his or her education in a manner equivalent to that of nondisabled peers.
Bookshare.org
Bookshare.org dramatically increases access to books for the community of visually impaired and otherwise print disabled individuals. This online community enables book scans to be shared, thereby leveraging the collections of thousands of individuals who regularly scan books, eliminating significant duplication of effort. Bookshare.org takes advantage of a special exemption in the U.S. copyright law that permits the reproduction of publications into specialized formats for the disabled.
Recordings for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D)
RFB&D is the primary supplier/lender of educational and professional books on tape for anyone with a documented print disability. Institutional & individual memberships are available. Some materials also available in electronic text. RFB&D also sells the players required to play books on tape/e-texts.
National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS)
NIMAS guides the production and electronic distribution of digital versions of textbooks and other instructional materials so they can be more easily converted into accessible formats.
Web Access
Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)
The WebAIM site provides an incredibly rich collection of information, training, resources, guidelines and standards for Web accessibility and disability access to the Web.
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
The Web Accessibility initiative provides strategies, guidelines, and resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.
Distance Learning
EDUTools
EduTools provides independent reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and consulting services to assist decision-making in the e-learning community including review of Course Management Systems, Online courses, and Research Projects.
AccessELearning
AccessELearning provides free tutorials for the design of accessible content.
AccessIT
AcessIT from the University of Washington features an Accessible University mock site which includes a companion guide to present problems and solutions in a very user friendly format.
Adobe Accessibility Site
Provides information on how to create accessible PDF documents.
MAGPIE
Free tools to create captioned video and/or audio.
Microsoft Accessibility Site
Product information to make the computer easier to see, hear, and use as well as tutorials and hands-on training tools.
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