The Accessible Virtual Campus

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Media & Materials

The ways in which we are able to present information to students, peers and visitors to campus continue to increase and continue to be more accessible for instructors. Unfortunately, with new methods of delivering content there are frequently new accessibility issues.

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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

Access for All: Are barriers keeping people with disabilities away from your church?

This article by John R. Throop discusses the barriers that are keeping people with disabilities away from church, including topics such as: employee accessibility, public accessibility, worship accessibility, and program accessibility.

Defining Audio and Video Description

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) offers definitions that distinguish video description and audio description and summarizes attempts at related legislation. {Also see Video Descriptive Track Protocol (Draft).}

American Foundation for the Blind

Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008

Legislation (not yet passed) to ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to emerging Internet Protocol-based communication and video programming technologies in the 21st Century. H.R. 6320 covers communications access and video description.

U.S. Department of Printed Publications, 110th CONGRESS 2d Session

W3C Accessibility

"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."

Further, As part of the W3C, "The mission of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is to lead the Web to its full potential to be accessible, enabling people with disabilities to participate equally on the Web."

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Web Best Practices Overview

Web Best Practices Overview: This group, lead by Jon Gunderson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, convenes regularly "to develop best practices for web development using HTML, CSS, Javascript and Adobe PDF." Information about joining, issues and topics for discussion are found at this website.

Assistive Technology in Higher Education Network (ATHENS)