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Welcome

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Agenda

9:00am Introduction 9:15am Lego & Accessibility Activities 10:15am Break 10:30am Panel Discussion 12:00pm Lunch 1:00pm Demos & Small Group Discussion 2:30pm Wrap up 3:00pm End

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Presenters

Robyn Belair, EdX Lance Eaton, Brandeis University Adam Engel, Emerson College Corrine Schoeb, Swarthmore College Jenn Stevens, Emerson College Lindsey Van Gieson, Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kathryn Weber-Hottleman, University of Connecticut

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Your Accessibility Toolkit

We created a shared resource for today’s workshop to share thoughts, ideas, and tools to take with you when the day is through. You should have access to this through the email you used to register with NERCOMP, or access/bookmark using this link:

http://ow.ly/TvD250xU1mo

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Lego & Accessibility Activities (45 minutes)

Photo by James Pond on Unsplash

Group Lego builds (at tables) No Mouse Challenge (Laptop) Mirror tracing activity (Laptop) Cognitive disability simulation (Laptop, requires Flash)

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Activities for Building Empathy

Help others to build compassion for users of all abilities and experiences

Image from https://www.deque.com/empathy-lab-online/ Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Let’s build some Legos!

• Break up into groups of 2 or 3
• Each group should have 1 (one) Lego set
• Lego sets have difficulty levels of 1, 2, or 3
• Follow instructions to build the object indicated
• n the bag
• When finished, please disassemble your object

and place pieces back in bag

• Try out different sets (each kit takes between 5 -

15 min to make)

• Make sure to follow any special instructions

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Photo by Jan Kaluza on Unsplash

Lego Special Instructions

Group A

Builder(s) must use mittens provided.

Group B

Group member(s) must dictate instructions to builder. Instruction giver cannot see what the builder is doing and vice versa.

Groups C & E

Follow instruction booklets as provided.

Group D

Please confirm with us that your object has been built to specification when finished ☺

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Debrief before break (15 min)

• Discuss challenges of activities.
• What were your limitations?
• Would this be beneficial at your school?
• How would you redesign the Lego activity to apply UDL?

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Coming up: Accessibility Panel

Before/During Break (10:15-10:30)

Make sure you can access our PollEverywhere Q&A (submit questions for panelists here or vote up other questions!) https://pollev.com/lindsey

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Accessibility Panel

10:30am – 12:00pm

Robyn Belair, Learning Designer EdX (previously Lesley University) Corrine Schoeb, Technology Accessibility Coordinator Swarthmore College Kathryn Weber-Hottleman, IT Accessibility Coordinator University of Connecticut Lindsey Van Gieson (moderator) Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Use your laptop or mobile device to participate! pollev.com/lindsey

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Afternoon Breakout Sessions, Part 1

Tech Tools & Demos

• 1. Content Accessibility Checkers UDOIT & Ally
• 2. Video Captioning
• 3. Screen Readers & Text to Speech
• 4. Web Accessibility Checkers
• 5. Tagging PDFs & OCR

1:00pm – 1:40pm

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Afternoon Breakout Sessions, Part 2

1:50pm – 2:30pm Small Group Discussions

1. Engagement 2. Policy, Process, UDL 3. Cross Departmental Collaborations & Training

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Wrap Up

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Don’t forget to utilize the ‘Making Accessibility Attainable’ shared drive We’ll collect any ideas gathered on the post-its & Poll Everywhere and add to the shared drive Today’s presentation is there, as well as digital copies of any handouts

Thank you for attending Makin ing Accessib ibility Attain inable!

Please help us and NERCOMP continue to improve workshop offerings in the future by filling

• ut this quick evaluation for today’s session.

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