20 Tips for Teaching an Accessible Online Course

One woman tells instructors how their behaviors impact a student's decision to pursue a computing field.
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Program staff and partners in the AccessComputing project meet regularly throughout the year to discuss activities, collaborations, and more. Efforts are made to ensure that these meetings are accessible to all potential participants. They apply the principles of universal design.
is optical character recognition (OCR) software that recognizes  standard text, but also scientific figures and mathematics symbols. After scanning a document, it can output the content in a variety of digital formats, including LaTeX, MathML, XHTML, HRTeX, IML and Microsoft Word. Assistive technology can then be used to provide speech, Braille, or enlarged text access.
Funded by the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, was developed to support instructors and staff who work with deaf and hard of hearing students in all mainstreamed academic environments. ClassAct improves existing teaching practice in mainstream classes by ensuring access to instruction for these students. Resources on the ClassAct website focus on teaching challenges and successful methods as well as helpful communication strategies for the classroom and service units.
Students and educators show how captioning videos in a lecture capture application helps everyone gain knowledge.
With the increasing demand for computing professionals, it's important that students with disabilities are included in computing courses.