DIAGRAM Center Goals from Lansdowne Strategic Planning Meeting June 5-6, 2017

Housekeeping One-hour webinar Enter your questions in chat box for Q & A at end of session. Live-captioned Recorded 

Agenda Lansdowne Meeting What You Can Do Next! Context and rationale Setting Direction for Project Years 3 and 4 (2017-2019) What You Can Do Next!

6/27/2011 The DIAGRAM Center Mission: Build New Paths To Accessible Education through Technology Supporting different learning needs with emerging technologies and community engagement, so all students have access to the general curriculum Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials

Our Big-Picture Goals: To Increase… Number of new educational materials that are born accessible and readily available to children and students with disabilities Use of new tools and technologies to create accessible education materials, especially STEM content, for children and students with disabilities Knowledge of the accessibility features specific to the needs of students with print disabilities and students with disabilities not traditionally associated with print disabilities Community of technology developers, publishers, and end users building knowledge and contributing to the development of tools/services.

How Are We Doing? Goal to Increase: Progress # of new educational materials that are born accessible and readily available to children and students with disabilities Born Accessible Global Certified Accessible (for EPUB) Use of new tools and technologies to create accessible education materials, especially STEM content, for children and students with disabilities Tools for Teachers: Imageshare Tools for Students: Math Editor Tools for Publishers: BA Wizard, MathML Cloud, Math Speech Rule Engine update Tools for AIM Producers: Poet Training, Math Support Finder Knowledge of the accessibility features specific to the needs of students with print disabilities and students with disabilities not traditionally associated with print disabilities Identifying testers and conducting testing PEEP and the Big Wide World Project gh 3D chemistry project Working with Gallaudet Community of technology developers, publishers, and end users building knowledge and contributing to the development of tools/services. Expanded Advisory Committee More WGs Code Sprints Inspired Collaborations

Lansdowne: New Opportunities! Welcome and engage new community members! 40% First timers! Create actionable plans for 2017 and beyond

What We Did Introduced new friends Speed Geeking “Unconference”-style breakouts Brainstorming Commitments to Action Broke bread, drank fruit- infused waters, played Werewolf, ate s’mores

Themes from Lansdowne More, Better Outreach and Communications (Bryan Gould) Understanding and Communicating Impact (Elaine Ober and Ted Gies )

Themes from Lansdowne (continued) Broadening Perspectives (Melissa Herzig) New Collaborations (Kyle Keane) End-User Focus (Chelsea Cook)

Putting it All Together… Goals from Lansdowne + Original Commitments from Proposal Work Already Underway Our Scope and Budget More Discussion =

What We’ll Do Together New Charters for the Working Groups Additional Activities for the next 2 years On Our Radar: Areas & projects we love but aren’t funded to tackle directly (yet)

Content ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Build out Imageshare PEEP and the Big Wide World: example of content for young students and new User Testing Methodology Test 3D content delivery with gh Explore visual storytelling tools with Gallaudet Produce at least one example and/or resource around accessible audio-visual content showing closed captioning and audio descriptions for video ON OUR RADAR: Examples of accessible circuit drawings Key steps to producing braille-conversion-friendly text files DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS • Connect with the other working groups to make sure the work they are doing is made available through real world examples with instructions on how to implement it • Form two sub groups: one to address and study interactives; the other to further explore Deaf accessibility needs and address gaps in accessible ASL content

Developers DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Code repository of accessible interactions Code Sprints Explore machine learning DIAGRAM Report TASKFORCES: Math in EPUB Drag and Drop (New) - Thinking Outside the Box ON OUR RADAR Captioning for audiences such as English language learners and younger audiences Personalization DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS Identify areas in which software could be used to improve the accessibility of the materials for a variety of disabilities identified Identify as many as possible small code samples, widgets, or tools that will impact the accessibility of educational material for a variety of disabilities

Standards DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS: Update the DIAGRAM examples and recommendations, including SVG-alt text markup & additional data, math, images Care and feeding and promotion of what we’ve already worked on and adopted: EPUB 3.0, Accessibility 1.1 Explore the next round of standards to develop, such as: Web Publications and EPUB 4.0, as well as emerging content and interactions ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Born Accessible “wizard” and Accessibility Checker for EPUB Discovery and Buy Accessible Revisiting Diagrammar ON OUR RADAR: Reading system testing adding “read aloud” testing Native web publications in browsers

Tactiles DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Outreach – write articles on best practices for tactile production Update the Quickstart Guide for 3D printing and 3D Decision Matrix Identify future technology in the field of tactiles and share with the Development and Standards Working Groups Contribute to Imageshare Develop guide for educators on how to transition from 2D to 3D ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Explore Auto 2D3D tool ON OUR RADAR TBD

Outreach and Communications DRAFT WORKING GROUP CHARTER HIGHLIGHTS Provide materials to DIAGRAM members in order to better share information about DIAGRAM (ex., PPT slides, talking points) Create and moderate a feedback process between student, educator and publisher regarding effective accessibility efforts Discover and disseminate success stories so end-users, educators and publishers all know what success entails ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES: Revamp newsletter Enable more communication between working groups Increase outreach to other communities and stakeholders Resources for communicating impact ON OUR RADAR TBD

Technology/Product Road Map TEACHERS: Expand Imageshare. Possible ideas include: filtering/searching by student need and curriculum matching, facilitate teacher sharing, quality control features. ON OUR RADAR: Tech Finder STUDENTS: Procedural Math Editor: multi-modal inclusive editor to support student-driven authoring and editing of math equations ON OUR RADAR: Maker tools, accessible coding tools PUBLISHERS and AIM PRODUCERS: Poet Training Module with templates; Born Accessible standards wizard and EPUB checking tools; math tools for Nemeth production; 2D-->3D Tool ON OUR RADAR: Maker tools, coding tools; visual storytelling tools, automated content workflow via machine learning DEVELOPERS: Code repository; standard reference implementations ON OUR RADAR: Teach Access

What Can You Do Next? Complete your “I Wills” and sign up for more! (Follow up with someone else on their “I Will”) Join or continue in a Working Group Own a Goal: Drive a Project or Pick Up Something On Our Radar Spread the Word Follow @DIAGRAMC on Twitter; suggest a tweet Write a Blog Post Recruit colleagues for Working Groups or as a user tester Provide some training or a demo Give a talk or webinar Write some code Test some software/standards Keep us all informed!

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Thank You for All That You Do! Web site: http://diagramcenter.org Blog/newsletter: http://blog.diagramcenter.org/ Twitter: @DIAGRAMC Working Group Meeting Notes: https://goo.gl/XGYRhi Lansdowne-related documents: https://goo.gl/cvAexx The DIAGRAM Center is a Benetech initiative supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (Cooperative Agreement #H327B100001). Opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position of the U.S. Department of Education.