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

2. Housekeeping One-hour webinar
Enter your questions in chat box for Q & A at end of session.
Live-captioned
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3. Agenda Lansdowne Meeting What You Can Do Next! Context and rationale
Setting Direction for Project Years 3 and 4 ( )
What You Can Do Next!

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

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

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

12. 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)

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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
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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21. The Power of Collaboration

22. Thank You for All That You Do!
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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.