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THE GROWING CHALLENGES FOR ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE LEARNING PART II
Navigating Second Life With A Screen Reader
Philip Voorhees Austin Peay State University
TextSL Demo
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Summary from Last Year
What is an “Innovative Professor”?Strategies for proactive accessible designBarriers created by Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 ---
Objects.
Go to: http://www.apsu.edu/disability/presentations for THE GROWING CHALLENGES FOR ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE LEARNING PART I presentation resource page
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The Innovative Professor• Early Adopter
• Promotes and creates different learning environments, techniques and technologies to engage, enhance and improve teaching and learning in online and hybrid classrooms.
• Evangelist for Universal Design
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Strategic Planning for an Inclusive Environment
• All Challenges are Opportunities
• With your institutional relationships, develop a strategic plan for an inclusive environment
• Use Long-term, Mid-term and short-term timelines
• Identify realistic goals
• Evaluate and adapt for success
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Evaluate and Adapt Strategic Planning for an Inclusive Environment
• Accessible Design -- Standards/Section 508• WCAG 2.0, ARIA Accessible Rich Internet Applications• VWRAP Katherine Mancuso & Meadhbh Hamrick
• Accessibility Review Checklist • All Level 1 Checks must be “Compliant” at the time of course
review before a course will be approved for payment
• Quality Matters
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OMG
My online class is in Second Life!
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Second Life
• Using virtual space for education
– Ongoing evolution of technology
– New project for the ethical hacker
– Real-Life Teaching in a Virtual World
– Second Life: Engaging Virtual Campuses
– Close the doors we’re leaving
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Second Life• Accessibility:– Second Life Accessibility Wiki– Virtual Ability Island– Virtual guide dog for Second Life– TextSL • Command based interface developed by Dave Carr,
Manjari Sapre, Bei Yuan and Eelke Folmer of the University of Nevada in Reno.
– VAI Sign Up– Second Life Viewer
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Summary
• All Challenges are Opportunities
• Create Inclusive opportunities with the relationships you develop
• Have a strategic plan and know your goals
• Keep It Simple & Create Inclusive Properties
• Evaluate and adapt
• It is okay to have fun