20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course
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Making a Makerspace? Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design
Many engineering departments, libraries, and universities are launching new initiatives to create makerspaces, physical spaces where students, faculty, and the broader community can gather and share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. In creating these innovative spaces we should apply principles of universal design to ensure the spaces, tools, and community are accessible to as many individuals as possible.
Facilitating Accessibility Reviews of Informal Science Education Facilities and Programs
Promising Practice
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
The application of universal design strategies can make instruction in a classroom, online, or in a tutoring center accessible to all students.
STEM and People with Disabilities
Educators and students tell how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities can be made accessible and how students with disabilities can prepare for these fields.
Communication Access Realtime Translation: CART Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
Educators tell how Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) provides access to auditory communication for individuals who are deaf.
Universal Design in Higher Education: Promising Practices
Edited by Sheryl E. Burgstahler
Universal Design in Higher Education: Promising Practices is available in HTML and PDF versions. For the HTML version, follow the table of contents below. For the PDF version, go to Universal Design in Higher Education: Promising Practices - PDFs. We recommend the PDF version as the best choice if you want to create the entire book or an individual chapter in print format.
Making Science Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities
Application of universal design to a science lab
Students with disabilities face access challenges to typical science labs in precollege and postsecondary settings. Access barriers may prevent a student from:
Accessible Science Equipment
Examples of products to help make science labs accessible to all students.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction
A Checklist for Inclusive Teaching