IST 5011 Technology Skillls & Abilities: Assistive Technology LINKS

Spring 2008
5.9.09

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Organizations Center for Applied Technology (CAST) - Founded in 1984 as the Center for Applied Special Technology, CAST has earned international recognition for its development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies based on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
  Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology - Q: How can technology address the needs of low performing, at-risk, and learning handicapped students?
  National Assistive Technology Research Institute (NATRI) -conducts research related to the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of assistive technology (AT) services in schools, identifies promising practices in the delivery of AT services, and disseminates research findings and information about promising practices in ways that will assist school personnel to develop or improve AT policies and practices for students with disabilities.
  Texas Assistive Technology Network - works to ensure that students with disabilities receive assistive technology devices and services when needed to benefit from a free, appropriate public education.
  The Daisy Consortium - The DAISY Consortium was formed in May, 1996 by talking book libraries to lead the worldwide transition from analog to Digital Talking Books. DAISY denotes the Digital Accessible Information SYstem.
  Assistive Technology Resource Library - From the NSNET Community Organization Network links citizens with disabilities andor health challenges of all ages in Nova Scotia to resources and services that promote active inclusive healthy independent living in our communities
Standards National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) - This voluntary standard will guide the production and electronic distribution of flexible digital instructional materials, such as textbooks, so that they can be more easily converted to Braille, text-to-speech, and other accessible formats.
Videos CURB CUTS: Assistive Technology on TV - 30 minute videos on a variety of assistive technologies.
Tools and Guides Supports Lists: Tools and Strategies to Support Access to Standards-Based Learning for Diverse Learners - This 55 page document compiled by the Boston Public Schools Access Technology (ATC) in 2002 provides instructional strategies and low and high tech solutions.
Software Apps
MAGpie - Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed two such tools, version 1.0 and 2.0.2 of the Media Access Generator (MAGpie), for creating captions and audio descriptions for rich media
  NCDAE Fact Sheets - detail various technologies and tools used within distance education. These fact sheets will list the accessibility of these technologies and include known work arounds or implications that should be considered when using these technologies to deliver distance education.
  subtitle.horse - online subtitle editor to translate flash videos (FLV) and get the subtitle-code in different formats, like TimedText or SRT. A timedText file (which is supported by the JW FLV Player and Adobe FLV playback component) can be generated online. If you want to integrate the tool in your video-cms
PowePoint
 NCDAE Tips and Tools: Microsoft PowerPoint - This document is intended as a discussion of accessibility and Microsoft PowerPoint.
  Accessible Web Publishing Wizard -The Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft® Office provides a simple way to create highly accessible and standards compliant web versions of Office documents that are more accessible and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.The HTML generated by the Wizard supports everyone from legacy browsers and slow Internet connections to the needs of blind users with screen readers. Documents created with the Wizard can be put on the web, e-mailed to colleagues, shared on intranets and read with a wide variety of web browsers.
  Webaim-
  S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System - Creates a single XHTML document that can be viewed slide by slide or as an outline.
Case Studies