Accessibility
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The OCWC Accessibility Working Group is an informal, collaborative (i.e. "participant-driven") group gathered for collaboration on any number of issues related to reducing / eliminating barriers to OCW access.
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[edit] OCW4ALL
OCW Toolkit Teams: Accessibility
[edit] Who we are?
International team of people interested in integrate accessibility concepts in OCW
[edit] Accessibility for?
- People with disabilities
- People with old computers
- People with low bandwidth connections
[edit] What we do?
- Recomend accessibility evaluation guides, tools, and best practices
- Promote accessibility issues in OCW tools
- Develop automatic systems to create accessibility content formats
- Automatic video text
- Automatic voice content generation like DAISY ( www.daisy.org)
- Automatic file size reduction
[edit] Focus of the group
- Create a community that provide help and advise to members
- Link and promote tools and projects
- Publish guidelines and best practices
[edit] Community
Please, join the Accessibility Working Group mailing list at http://ocwconsortium.org/mailman/listinfo/accessibility_ocwconsortium.org
[edit] Guides & Best practices
[edit] Tools
- 3 Play Media http://3playmedia.com
- http://www.csub.edu/Webservices/Accessibility/Bobby.shtml
- CynthiaSays web content accessibility validation tool http://www.cynthiasays.com/
- Vision Australia's Colour Contrast Analyzer http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=628
- Ohio State's Web Accessibility Center list of resources http://wac.osu.edu/resources/tools.html
[edit] Projects
[edit] Meetings
- Reach and Impact at Open Education Utah 2008: [1]
[edit] Meeting notes
- Elsa—reagrding accessibility, keep in mind that in developing countries, lower bandwidth, need to publish lightweight materials.
