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The Accessible Virtual Campus

Lectures, Presentations & Instructional Methods

Learning experiences in post-secondary education take many forms.  Different strategies to include students with disabilities may be necessary for different types of learning experiences.

Many of these methods are important for non-instructional staff to utilize as well.  All campus presentations and experiences need to be designed for equal participation.

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Font Size for Accessible Media in the Classroom

These two Power Point slides provide a guideline to insure that the font size within print media are accessible when projected.

ACCESS-ed Project

(PowerPoint Presentation) How to Determine Font Size for Accessible Media

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[Research-based] Focus Groups: Faculty Awareness of Disability Rights

 "Postsecondary faculty are often unaware of disability issues in general, and about the needs of students with learning disabilities and other hidden disabilities." This 2-page research brief offers key findings and implications for students, faculty and service providers.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF Postsecondary education Supports, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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The Seven Principles of Universal Design

Ron Mace, an internationally renowned architect, product designer and educator, is credited with conceiving the term “universal design.” He founded the Center for Universal Design at North Carolina State University in 1989. In 1997, a committee of 10, under Mace’s leadership, wrote these seven principles of universal design. These principles are the standard for universally designing products, communication, and environments “to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without adaptation or specialized design”.

The Center for Universal Design, NC State University

If you can't see things from a user's perspective, you can't make something accessible.

Centre for Inclusive Technology