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Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Campus Accessibility through Collaborative Educational Technology

Learn about the successful campus collaboration at St. Olaf College to improve accessibility, address challenges, and raise awareness. Discover unexpected benefits and evidence of increased awareness leading to exciting future plans. Join the discussion on making online educational materials more accessible.

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Breaking Barriers: Enhancing Campus Accessibility through Collaborative Educational Technology

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  1. Mission Possible: Accessible Educational Technology on Campus Laura Knobel-Piehl (Assistive Technology Specialist) Nancy Aarsvold(Assistant Director of Instructional Technology) St. Olaf College April 27, 2012

  2. Presentation Overview • Introduction: Mission Possible • Beginning of the campus collaboration • Easy first steps toward improving accessibility • Unexpected benefits of collaboration • Evidence of increased awareness • Conclusion: Future plans& group discussion

  3. Introduction: Mission Possible • Directive from OCR • Training by Janie Jarrow: Attended by staff from Student Accessibility Services and from IIT • Identified challenges: • Raising awareness • Bridging gap between SAS and faculty • Next steps: • Letter to the Provost requesting committee of cross-campus representatives to explore and address our vulnerabilities. • Identifying “low-hanging fruit”

  4. Start of Campus Collaboration • IIT and SAS: Continued partnership • Webinar on Accessibility • IIT iPad Learning Community • SAS Round Table on Academic Support • CILA/IIT Tech Showcase

  5. Steps toward improving accessibility • Adding information about accessibility to the Moodle landing page • Creating online how-to documents for faculty • Adding accessibility sections to IIT training • Using JAWS as a tool for assessing website and web tools

  6. Unexpected outcomes of collaboration • Practice leads to greater knowledge/awareness/momentum • Progress is possiblewith what you have • Many hands make light work?

  7. Evidence of increased awareness • TRIO requested Braille materials for blind attendee in advance • Have been approached by other college departments – Bookstore, Print Center, Library, etc. • Web changes are underway to increase accessibility/usability of college site • Name change: From Student Disability Services to Student Accessibility Services

  8. Conclusion: Future plans • Collaboration with Carleton and other colleges • Library Learning Hub: Including Accessibility Services with Writing Help Desk, Study Strategies, Reference, Circulation, IIT Helpdesk, etc. • College-wide policy and an advisory committee for accessibility • Courses for AAAs (MS Office suite, Adobe, etc) to include creating accessible projects in the course

  9. Discussion • What approach have you taken at your institutions to make online educational materials more accessible? • Have you encountered any pitfalls? • Who are your co-collaborators?

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