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Understanding POUR: The Basics of Universal Design for Learning

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For many of us in education, accessibility guidelines can be confusing. Fortunately, they can be distilled into four core principles, as captured by the acronym POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust).  Many of the learning materials educators use in classrooms and labs are self-created and understanding how to make them accessible to all students including those with disabilities is critical. Experts from the National AEM Center at CAST, in collaboration with the NSF funded ATE Central project,  will offer practical, applied techniques that educators can implement right away. Instructors can build upon their higher-level understanding of the POUR core qualities to ensure their classroom materials “are accessible and work for all learners from the start, by design.” ...more
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Intro

0:00

Today's Presenters!

0:29

Special Guest

1:39

Poll: What is your reason for joining us today?

2:18

CAST Mission and Goals

7:12

Objectives

9:06

What does accessibility mean to you?

10:07

Functional Definition of Accessibility (US DOE OCR)

12:30

3 Layers of UDL Guidelines

16:22

Advice from Maya Angelou

22:21

5 Practices for Improving Accessibility of a Lesson Plan

26:52

Mark up the document with styles

29:22

Benefits of Using Styles for Section Headings

31:50

Styles should follow a logical order

33:43

Check Your Work - Insert a TOC

36:21

Use of Styles - Questions?

36:51

2. Use of table headers

41:16

Add a header row in MS Word

42:48

Example: A List Created Manually

44:46

Example: A List Created with "Bullets and Numbering"

45:20

Tables and List - Questions?

45:52

Create descriptive hyperlinks

48:05

Alternative Text for Images

51:35

Add Alternative Text (Office 365) - Step 2

52:38

Add alternative text (Older versions of MS Office)

53:09

Quality Image Descriptions

55:51

Links and Images - Questions?

56:50

Connect with the AEM Center

58:23
Understanding POUR: The Basics of Universal Design for Learning
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2020Mar 25
For many of us in education, accessibility guidelines can be confusing. Fortunately, they can be distilled into four core principles, as captured by the acronym POUR (Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust).  Many of the learning materials educators use in classrooms and labs are self-created and understanding how to make them accessible to all students including those with disabilities is critical. Experts from the National AEM Center at CAST, in collaboration with the NSF funded ATE Central project,  will offer practical, applied techniques that educators can implement right away. Instructors can build upon their higher-level understanding of the POUR core qualities to ensure their classroom materials “are accessible and work for all learners from the start, by design.”

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