2. Academic Accommodations and Universal Access By: Toni Howard- Director Andrea Engle- Academic Accommodation Specialists E-text

3. ADA/ Section 504 Civil Rights Legislation ▫Provide equal access ▫Equivalent ease of use ▫Undue burden ▫Fundamental alteration Faculty Advocacy Notification Memo

4. What is Accessibility? “Accessible” means that individual with disabilities are able to independently acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services within the same timeframes as individuals without disabilities, with substantially equivalent ease of use. – DOE, OCR, University of Montana No. 1012218 “Equally effective” means that the alternative format or medium communicates the same information in as timely a fashion as does the original format or medium.

5. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES High SchoolCollege Law- IDEALaw- ADA & Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act School district/teachers are responsible for identifying students with disabilities Student is responsible to self-identify and self- disclose as a person with a disability School/family develops an IEPNo IEP Special Education- fundamental alterations to the curriculum are made No Special Education - No fundamental alterations to the curriculum are made FERPA FERPA applies only to universities.

6. Course Material Selections Selecting Textbooks ▫Select Early ▫Consider a suggested publisher ▫Graphic Novels Select Captioned materials ▫Frontline/PBS- Most captioned ▫www.22frames.comwww.22frames.com ▫www.moviesubtitles.netwww.moviesubtitles.net ▫www.amara.orgwww.amara.org Audio described video materials ▫http://acb.org/adp/index.htmlhttp://acb.org/adp/index.html

7. Course materials 3 rd party softwareother materials Aleks MyLabs Connect Lecture Tools Aplia Mastering Labs Adobe Connect Blackboard (Collaborate) Video Conferencing PDF Word PowerPoint YouTube Videos Lecture Captures Library Reserves

8. Example Inaccessible PDF/ accessible PDF Word Tips E-text Example of NVDA Reading YouTube Captioning ▫Auto CaptionedAuto Captioned ▫Closed CaptionedClosed Captioned

9. Training Dates

10. Links to Website Tutorials can be found at http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student- disability-services/access.html http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student- disability-services/access.html General Accessibility information http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student- disability-services/faculty.html http://www.utoledo.edu/offices/student- disability-services/faculty.html Assistive Technology Initiative

11. Suggested Publishers MCG Pearson ▫Prentice Hall ▫Wesley ▫Allyn & Bacon Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing CQ Press Elsevier F.A. Davis Company John Wiley & Sons Jones & Bartlett Learning Lynne Rienner Publishers Cengage Learning ▫Houghton Mifflin ▫Mariner ▫Thompson ▫Wadsworth Springer Publishing W.W. Norton

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