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Preparing Educators for the Future of Accessible Education Materials

Preparing Educators for the Future of Accessible Education Materials. A Moment of Opportunity. Common Core Standards : new curriculum & assessments, increased similarity across states + Ebooks : now born digital, new commercial publications standard (EPUB 3) .

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Preparing Educators for the Future of Accessible Education Materials

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  1. Preparing Educators for the Future of Accessible Education Materials

  2. A Moment of Opportunity Common Core Standards: new curriculum & assessments, increased similarity across states + Ebooks: now born digital, new commercial publications standard (EPUB 3)

  3. Challenge: Many, Many Content Creators 5Assessment Consortia 46Common Core States83Edtech venture capital deals in first half 2012* 300 millionPotential authors & publishers in the US *Source: CB Insights: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/size-ed-tech-market-venture-capital

  4. A Critical Strategy All materials Born Digital Must be Born Accessible

  5. Guiding Questions • Why is it important for educators to understand how content is created? • What are the tools available to educators to support the development of accessible materials, including STEMx materials.

  6. Guiding question #1 • Why is it important for educators to understand how content is created (and made accessible)? • Because educators must: • Buy/use accessible content • Buy/use accessible tools that work with content • Create accessible content

  7. Benetech Education Initiatives Born Accessible • Bookshare Service • Accessible online library • Scale, efficiency • Getting books into students’ hands • Reading Tools & Training • Cloud-based bookshelf • MP3 download • Web Reader • Professional dev workshops • Content Tools • Discovery • Services • DIAGRAM: R&D • Tools for accessible image creation • Technical standards • Research, training and best practice guidelines

  8. Bookshare

  9. What is Accessible Content? • Text • Formatting • Navigation • Pictures • Math

  10. Web Reader

  11. Guiding Question #2 • What are the tools available to educators to support the development of accessible materials, including STEMx materials.

  12. Accessible STEM Content Highlights Structure Navigation Sections Images Longdesc DIAGRAM Content Model Text ReflowableStyle/ContentFormatting Math MathML Description Video Track: subtitles, description, etc. Tables & Lists Headers Ordering Accessible EPUB 3 Guidelines: http://idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/nav.php

  13. Images are Challenging (especially STEM)

  14. What is an Accessible Image? • Provides different mode of access to visual information contained in an image, e.g.: • Text/audio description • Tactile graphic • Sonification • Smart image • Multi-modal access

  15. Accessible Image Example About this description Author: John Doe, Ph.D. in Water Engineering Target Age: 9-12 Target Grade: 4-7 Summary The image depicts the cycle of water evaporating, turning into clouds, falling back to earth in the form of precipitation and being filtered through sediment. Long Description The image depicts the natural process of evaporation and precipitation and how rain water gets filtered and cleansed through the earth's sediment. On the left-hand side of the image is a lake... A weather event such as a rainstorm eventually returns the precipitation to the ground... The natural filtering agents in the soil... Annotation added by teacher In the winter we get snow instead of rain. Simplified Language Description The image shows how water becomes clouds, then rain, and then gets cleaned by the soil. Tactile Image [Tactile image] In the upper left corner of the tactile… Simplified Image [Simplified image] Moving front the top left corner of the image

  16. POET Image Description Tool

  17. Poet: Navigate, Contextualize, Describe

  18. Math Tools: Web-based MathTrax • Descriptions and tactile output

  19. How to Get There: Strategic Partnerships A sampling of our hundreds of partners: • AIR, USFDAISY, NCAM • Don Johnston, Humanware, Learning Ally, NLS, NIMAC • MeTRC, VDRDC • NFB, NCLD, PACER, CAST, Internet Archive • Google, Barnes & Noble, Moodle Rooms • 200 publishers • DIAGRAM Advisory Board: 27 members, 20+ working group members • Bookshare Advisory Board: 17 members (pending approval)

  20. Looking Ahead: Challenges • Interactive content • Social reading & learning • Accessibility in assessments • Research on effectiveness of new approaches • Full federated search implementation across all image repositories • Universal identifiers for images…

  21. How can we work together to better serve students in this Moment of Opportunity? Web/Twitter/etc. Working Groups Volunteer www.Bookshare.org www.Diagramcenter.org www.Bookshare.org/_/volunteer/overview We Can’t Dohttps://wwookshare.org/_/

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