The eLearning Programs & Support Center offers the following links to Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) resources, particularly focussed on Instructional Materials.
CSULA and CSU Resources
- eLPS ATI Informational Handout
- CSULA Accessible Technology Initiative
- CSU Web Accessibility Initiative
Other Resources
- Accessibility Basics: "Accessibility issues should be considered not only when specifying materials to be acquired for courses, but also when preparing impromptu handouts for use in classes or when recommending websites that might not be accessible." (from CSU Affordable Learning Solutions)
- The National Foundation for the Blind has produced a video series entitled "Google Accessibility Demonstration Videos" illustrating some of the barriers to using web applications.
- CSULA Library Captioned Video Titles -- Please note: This may not be a comprehensive list of all titles with Closed Caption. It reflects all the titles in the CSULA Library catalog for which a "note field" or "subject heading" field denoted that the title had closed captioning.
- Apple's Accessibility Resources
- Adobe's "Achieving Accessibility with PDF" -- Archived webinar.
- "Designed-in Accessibility" -- May 28, 2009 webinar with Tom Jewett. (1 hour)
- Resources for Teaching and Learning the Accessibility of Technology -- This site is a project of the Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) of the California State University system.
- "From Where I Sit" -- A powerful video series featuring eight CSU students with disabilities who share their experiences in the college classroom.
- The Web AIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) site has a lot of good information, like this page on fonts
- Automated Captions in YouTube -- YouTube has "combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. . . . The captions will not always be perfect . . . but even when they're off, they can still be helpful and the technology will continue to improve with time."
- Article: College Is Hard Enough: Digital Technology Should Work for Everyone by Sharon Krevor-Weisbaum. "We all know that technology has changed how students interact with professors, how students access information, and how institutions communicate with students. These are exciting changes, but unfortunately, students and faculty who are blind or who have other print disabilities are at a disadvantage, not because of their disability but because educational institutions (and yes, the developers of the products that institutions purchase) are making decisions that exclude these members of the campus community."
- "For an excellent 'where to begin' on ensuring accessibility, see Jonathan Lazar's PowerPoint slides from 'Improving Campus IT Accessibility', presentation, EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, January 13, 2011, Baltimore. (Note from the Krevor-Weisbaum article above.)
- Article: Web Accessibility: What Will It Take to Sustain Online Accessibility?: "The 2010 Managing Online Education survey had a very disturbing finding considering that distance education has moved beyond its nascent years. We learned that many campuses do not have formal policies and procedures to assure that their online courses and programs are compliant with mandates of the American Disabilities Act (ADA). More than a third of campuses responding to the survey reported that ADA compliance for online courses resides with each individual faculty member."