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AccessISL

Providing access to informal STEM learning for participants with disabilities by making opportunities more welcoming and inclusive.

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20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course
Access to Informal Science Learning (AccessISL) Brochure
Access to Informal STEM Learning Capacity Building Institute (2022)
Accessible Science Equipment
AccessISL Poster: UW 2020 Teaching and Learning Symposium
Checklist for Making Informal Learning Accessible to Students with Disabilities
Equal Access: Universal Design of Informal Learning
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) Project
Facilitating Accessibility Reviews of Informal Science Education Facilities and Programs
Making a Makerspace? Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design
Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities
Pedagogical and Content Design Practices that Support Accessibility and Inclusion in Museology Courses
Replication Materials: Facilitating Student Internships to Promote Accessible Informal STEM Learning
Replication Materials: Resources for Offering Accessible Online Informal Learning

Published Articles

Discover more research and information on our Published Articles on Accessible Informal Science Learning page.

Videos

Communication Access Realtime Translation: CART Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
2014
Creating Accessible Documents
2016
Engaging Individuals with Disabilities in an Engineering Research Center
2016
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
2015, 2006
Making Videos Accessible
2017
Providing Accessible Informal STEM Learning
2022
Quality Education Is Accessible
2016
STEM and People with Disabilities
2011
Virtual Access to Informal STEM Learning
2022

DO-IT has also cultivated a list of video collections that share perspectives of individuals with disabilities and universal design strategies that make the world more inclusive. Find these on our Disability-Related Videos page.

Online Resources

Access Smithsonian
Accessibility in Museums: Creating a Barrier-Free Cultural Landscape
AccessISL Poster: 2020 UW Teaching and Learning Symposium
American Alliance for Museum’s Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion Page
Describing Visual Resources Toolkit
Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator's Handbook
Developing Disabled Access in Galleries and Museums (Video)
Disability and Inclusion: Resources for Museum Studies Programs
Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects
Guidelines for Autism-Friendly Programs | Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium
How to Start an Accessibility Movement at your Museum
Intrinsic Motivation in Science Museums: Learning from and Broadening Participation of Visitors with Learning Disabilities
Leading Practices for Improving Accessibility and Inclusion in Field, Laboratory, and Computational Science – A Conversation Series
Maintaining Accessibility in Museums
Making Museum Exhibits Accessible for All: Approaches to Multi-Modal Exhibit Personalization
Mining the Dimensions of Accessibility
Museums Are Finally Taking Accessibility for Visitors with Disabilities Seriously
Open Exhibits
Ramping Up Accessibility
Redefine/able: Challenging Inaccessibility
Sorolla Museum Gallery Tour with Audio Description
Stories of Inclusion: Responding to Visitors with Cognitive, Developmental, and Emotional Disabilities
The 4 Most Impressive Accessible Museums in Europe
The Museum of Science's Universal Design Plan: Exhibit Design & Development
UD Guidelines for Public Programs in Science Museums
Understanding Our Stakeholders: The Disability Community
Universal Design Guidelines: Exhibits
Visitor Voices: A story of accessibility and inclusion
Welcoming the Widest Possible Audience

Published Articles on Accessible Informal Science Learning

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The AccessISL project is funded by the National Science Foundation (grant #DRL-1906147). Any questions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.

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