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  • Technology in Education

Accessibility

Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)

  • ALERT Archive (Bi-Monthly Newsletter of AHEAD)
  • Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability
  • Supporting Accommodation Requests: Guidance on Documentation Practices

DIAGRAM Center 

  • Digital Image and Graphic Resources for Accessible Materials - Standards 
  • Top Tips for Creating Accessible EPUB 3 Files

National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM) 

  • AIM for Teacher Educators
  • E-books for Education? Not so Fast...  
  • Post-Secondary Education and AIM 
  • Purchase Accessible Learning Materials (PALM) Initiative
  • West Virginia Resources

Web Accessibility in Mind (WebAIM)

  • Color Contrast Checker
  • Introduction to Web Accessibility
  • WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

  • Web Accessibility Initiative

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)

  • Universal Design
  • Universal Design Resources

Center for Applied Special Technology

  • Learning Tools

National Center on Universal Design for Learning

  • What Is UDL? 
  • UDL Guidelines - Version 2.0 
  • UDL Guidelines - Version 2.0 (PDF)
  • Postsecondary Education and UDL 

Tools to Consider

Audio - Speech to Text
  • Chrome VoiceNote II
  • Online Dictation (for Google Chrome; free)
  • Speechlogger

Captioning

  • Amara
  • YouTube

Institution Resources

WVU Center for Excellence in Disabilities

  • Everyone Can Learn: Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Law and Policy

Goldstein & Care, in The Federal Lawyer, December 2012

  • Disability Rights and Access to the Digital World: An Advocate's Analysis of an Emerging Field

Inside Higher Ed

  • Disability Access: Law and Policy

United States Access Board

  • Guide to the Section 508 Standards

U.S. Department of Education

  • ADA Amendments Act Guidance Under Amended Legal Standards (Dear Colleague Letter)

LMS / CMS Accessibility Information

Blackboard Collaborate Assistive Technology  
Blackboard Learn  
Canvas, by Instructure 
Desire2Learn: Brightspace
Moodle 
OpenClass, by Pearson (no specific statement; Request Form)
Sakai CLE and OAE 
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