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Accessible electronic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are emerging requirements for private, governmental and nonprofit entities. With Section 508, the 1998 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act, the United States Congress now requires that all Federal agencies make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. The purpose of this learning module is to identify and explain these technologies, and to discuss their origins and how they have developed. We will also explore the future possibilities of electronic information and communication accessibility and how these technologies impact individuals with disabilities and those entities which serve and employee them. | |||
By the end of this module, you should be able to do the following: | |||
*Learning Objectives | |||
**To explain the definition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). | |||
**To discuss the concept of "ICT Accessibility” as related to this course. | |||
**To formulate and interpret how the ICT has impacted individuals with disabilities. | |||
**To describe how ICT impacts private, governmental, and nonprofit entities. | |||
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Revision as of 12:14, 18 July 2014
ICT Accessibility
Lead Instructor: Christopher Lee
Accessible electronic Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are emerging requirements for private, governmental and nonprofit entities. With Section 508, the 1998 amendment to the Rehabilitation Act, the United States Congress now requires that all Federal agencies make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities. The purpose of this learning module is to identify and explain these technologies, and to discuss their origins and how they have developed. We will also explore the future possibilities of electronic information and communication accessibility and how these technologies impact individuals with disabilities and those entities which serve and employee them.
By the end of this module, you should be able to do the following:
- Learning Objectives
- To explain the definition of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
- To discuss the concept of "ICT Accessibility” as related to this course.
- To formulate and interpret how the ICT has impacted individuals with disabilities.
- To describe how ICT impacts private, governmental, and nonprofit entities.
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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What is ICT? | Terms | |
Business Cases | G3ICT Publication | |
Accessibility Challenges | Introduction of Profiles | |
Organizational Roles | ICT |
ICT Accessibility Design
Lead Instructor: Arthur Murphy
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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Guidelines and Standards | Terms | |
Information Architecture | ||
Evaluations | ||
Sample Solutions |
Mainstream and Assistive Technology
Lead Instructor: Carolyn Phillips
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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Mainstream Technologies and Universal Access Assistive Technology | Terms | |
AT/UD Business Case Integration | Microsoft and Apple Accessibility Features and Tools | |
Text-To-Speech | ||
AT Laws and Policies |
Engineering Accessible Content
Lead Instructors: Norah Sinclair and Tessa Greenleaf
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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What is Content Engineering? | Terms | |
What is Accessible Digital Content? | ||
Types of Digital Content | ||
Content Accessibility: Word, PDFs, and PowerPoint | ||
Captioning and Video Transcription |
Web Accessibility Evaluation and Design
Lead Instructor: Adelle Frank
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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Web Accessibility | Terms | |
Accessible Web Architecture | ||
Development Guidelines and Standards | ||
Accessible Web Evaluation Tools |
Starting and Maintaining an Enterprise Accessibility Operation
Lead Instructor: William Curtis
Lesson Segment | Lessons and Descriptions | Teaching Tools |
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Accessibility Organizations and Challenges | Terms | |
Evaluation | ||
Operational Model | ||
Centralized Center |
Course Terms
- Accessibility: Accessibility describes the degree to which an environment, service, or product allows access by as many people as possible, in particular people with disabilities.
- AT: Assistive Technology. In the context of ICT, AT provides access to and provides services beyond those offered by the ICT in use to meet the requirements of users with disabilities.
- Disability: Refers to impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions, denoting the negative aspects of the interaction between an individual (with a health condition) and that individual’s contextual factors (environ- mental and personal factors).
- ICF: International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
- ICT: Information and Communication Technology
- Inclusive education: Education which is based on the right of all learners to a quality education that meets basic learning needs and enriches lives. Focusing particularly on vulnerable and marginalized groups, it seeks to develop the full potential of every individual. Inclusive Education ensures that “persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from secondary education, on the basis of disability” (Art. 24, CRPD)
- Inclusive society: One that freely accommodates any person with a disability without restrictions or limitations.
- INGO: International Non-Governmental Organization
- NGO: Non-Governmental Organization
- OS: Operating system (e.g. Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- PDF: Portable Document Format
- Screen-reader software: An assistive technology potentially useful to people who are blind, visually impaired, illiterate, or have specific learning difficulties. *Screen-readers attempt to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen and represent to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a Braille output device.
- UD: Universal Design means the design of products, environments, programmes and services to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. “Universal design” shall not exclude assistive devices for particular groups of persons with disabilities where this is needed.
- UN: United Nations
- UN CRPD:United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- UNESCO:United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- VLE: Virtual Learning Environment
- WSIS: World Summit on the Information Society