Originally posted by the Michelson 20MM Foundation >
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 1:4 adults in the United States have a disability, while 12.8% have a cognition disability and 4.8% have a visual disability. The inability to change contrast ratios, font sizes, font type, prohibit autoplay on videos, and focus content (e.g. blur all lines other than the one being read) can leave thousands of users behind in the digital environment when products fail to meet access and functional needs. In the world of open educational resources (OER), inaccessible resources directly contradict the intent of OER because the vision of open is one where no one is excluded from accessing or contributing to the intellectual commons
Recognizing the importance of ensuring that OER is open to all, the Michelson 20MM Foundation has awarded a 2023 OER Spark Grant to the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). For several years, ISKME has worked with CAST (formerly known as the Center for Applied Special Technology) in support of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs’ Accessibility Center. Based on that work, and inspired by CAST’s Universal Design For Learning (UDL) principles, ISKME will create a six-module course for California Community College (CCC) faculty members that will explore how to make OER accessible via the UDL guidelines.
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