Alison Diefenderfer

Muhlenberg College

Augmenting Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning Efforts in Documentation Through Free and Low-Cost Technologies

Presentation Overview

1. Augmenting documentation cycles
2. Focus on a few free to low-cost resources
3. Highlight workflow process alignment and show use cases

Central Premises

1. Possible and prudent given multitude of free/low-cost resources available
2. Scalable, sustainable, and a means for providing clear examples and insights into how accessibility and universal design work

Objectives and Outcomes

1. Weigh various options
2. Plan next steps
3. Use opportunity to ask questions

Why the scope of documentation?

1. First, what is meant by it
2. What it can include
3. Cyclical process and with metrics
4. Applicability inside and beyond education/classroom
5. Why important to discuss

What can add

1. Workflow for new content
2. Checking and remediating stages
3. Seamless integration to include some free to low cost technological tools and resources

Examples (not comprehensive list, just options)

1. Written documentation (Grackle)
2. Video (Amara)
3. Readers (Native to device, online options)
4. Audio (possibly Vocaroo or others)

Case study (slide 1 of 3 on topic)

1. Walking through how some of this can work

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Case study (slide 2 of 3 on topic)

1. How to train, get buy-in, allocate or standardize resources

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Case study (slide 3 of 3 on topic)

1. Significance of creating examples, workflow, pathway to sustainability

Checklist

1. Identify documentation to start with
2. Align tools, resources - new documentation, develop pathway - remediation, accessibility audits
3. Weigh affordances and limitations
4. Share your efforts and examples, model for others

Final thoughts, questions