The eLearning Programs & Support Center offers the following links to Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) resources, particularly focussed on Instructional Materials.
CSULA and CSU Resources
- Learn more about these eLPS ATI Workshops:
- Captioning Video Using MAGpie
- Creating Accessible PDF files
- Creating Accessible Word files
- Creating an Interactive Syllabus
- Creating Accessible PowerPoint files
- eLPS ATI Workshops Schedule
- eLPS ATI Informational Handout
- CSULA Accessible Technology Initiative
- CSU Web Accessibility Initiative
Other Resources
- Apple's Accessibility Resources
- Adobe's "PDF Accessibility Advanced" (Archived webinar. Please note: This online presentation URL is temporary. It will become permanently available on the ATI Professional Development web site planned to be launched sometime in April 2009.
- "Designed-in Accessibility" -- May 28, 2009 webinar with Tom Jewett. (1 hour)
- "How Rich Media is Helping Deaf & Hard of Hearing College Students" -- This Echo360 webinar from Aug. 2008, provides information about the ATI and the innovative programs at Gallaudet University. Echo 360 was simultaneously linked to the Wimba webinar as a lecture capture. (1 hour, 5 min.)
- 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."