Welcome Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y Agenda 9:00am - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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 Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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 Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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 Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Lego & Accessibility Activities (45 minutes) Group Lego builds (at tables) No Mouse Challenge (Laptop) Mirror tracing activity (Laptop) Cognitive disability simulation (Laptop, requires Flash) Photo by James Pond on Unsplash Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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 on 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 Photo by Jan Kaluza on Unsplash Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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 ☺ Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

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? Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Before/During Break (10:15-10:30) Coming up: Make sure you can access our PollEverywhere Accessibility Q&A (submit questions for panelists here or vote up other questions!) Panel https://pollev.com/lindsey Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Robyn Belair, Learning Designer EdX (previously Lesley University) Corrine Schoeb, Technology Accessibility Coordinator Swarthmore College Accessibility Kathryn Weber-Hottleman, IT Accessibility Coordinator University of Connecticut Panel Lindsey Van Gieson (moderator) Worcester Polytechnic Institute 10:30am – 12:00pm Use your laptop or mobile device to participate! pollev.com/lindsey Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Tech Tools & Demos Afternoon 1. Content Accessibility Checkers UDOIT & Ally Breakout Sessions, 2. Video Captioning Part 1 3. Screen Readers & Text to Speech 4. Web Accessibility Checkers 1:00pm – 1:40pm 5. Tagging PDFs & OCR Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Small Group Discussions Afternoon 1. Engagement Breakout Sessions, 2. Policy, Process, UDL Part 2 3. Cross Departmental Collaborations & Training 1:50pm – 2:30pm Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Wrap Up 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 Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y

Thank you for attending Please help us and NERCOMP continue to improve workshop offerings in the future by filling Makin ing out this quick evaluation for today’s session. Accessib ibility https://forms.gle/qGjrguivtynDkpsy7 Attain inable! Tweet using #NERCOMPPDO1 and #a11y