Making Online Teaching Accessible (Paperback)

List of Figures, Tables, and Exhibits.

Preface.

ONE Creating a Level Learning Space.

How People with Disabilities Use Computers.

Universal Design and Online Learning.

Legislation, Decisions, and Guidelines Governing Online Learning.

Decisions tThe Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.

Review of OCR Decisions and Online Learning.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

TWO Online Learning and Students with Disabilities.

Accessibility of the Online Learning Infrastructure.

Creating Accessible Online Course Content.

The Students' Part of the Equation.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

THREE Creating Accessible Content in Word and Excel.

An Introduction to Structuring Documents in Word.

Creating Well-Structured Documents.

Selecting Style Attributes to Enhance Accessibility.

Creating a Table of Contents.

Making Images in Word Accessible.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

FOUR Creating Accessible Presentations with PowerPoint.

Powerpoint and Universal Design.

Designing Accessible Powerpoint Presentations.

Creating Narrated Slide Shows.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

FIVE Delivering Accessible Content.

A Word about File Types.

Distributing Accessible Word Documents.

PDF Documents.

Distributing Excel Spreadsheets.

Distributing Accessible Powerpoint Content.

Online Accessibility Checkers.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

SIX Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

Historical Issues with Math Accessibility.

Authoring Accessible Electronic Math Documents.

Issues with Technical Graphics.

Providing Accessible Graphics.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

SEVEN Making Multimedia Accessible.

The Role of Multimedia in Online Learning.

Creating a Transcript.

Adding Synchronized Captions to a Video.

Accessibility for Real-Time Audio or Video.

Take-Aways from This Chapter.

EIGHT Supporting Accessible Online Learning.

Appendix A: Section 508 Web Standards.

Appendix B: WebAIM Summary of W3C WAI WCAG2.

Appendix C: American Foundation for the Blind's Distance Learning. Survey.

References.

Resources.