THE GROWING CHALLENGES FOR ACCESSIBLE DISTANCE LEARNING PART II

Navigating Second Life With A Screen Reader

Philip Voorhees Austin Peay State University

TextSL Demo

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

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

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

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

OMG

My online class is in Second Life!

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

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

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