A leg to stand on

Technology to know about and act on before somebody else does....

Alistair McNaught Senior Advisor

10 percent

10% of your learners are print impaired. They are helped by network wide tools like:

•Mindmapping,

•Text to speech,

•Structured Word documents,

•Colour/contrast switchers,

•Audio and video ?MyStudyBar? AT Bar? Individual downloads?

9 (x7) free online accessibility webinars

TechDis Tuesdays - 21Xerte Fridays - 39UK online - 3

  HE% FE% HE & FE%

RSC/Service%

Specialist College%

Other%

Xerte Friday 36 24 1 15 2 23

TechDis Tuesday

44 19 1 14 14 8

Attendance by sector since January 2012:

8 questions for students to ask

How many can you answer with a confident “Yes”?

7 training packs

Launched over 7 years ago.CD packs postedto every FE collegein UK.

Currently being updated into 5 brand new training resources.

6 online accessibility self assessments

Launched 4 years ago. Self assessment survey that allows youto see your resultsanonymised alongside others. http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/oases

6 brand new staff training resources

• Introduction to accessibility and inclusion

• Built in accessibility

• Accessible Documents and Presentations

• Accessing Online Content

• Creating accessible teaching materials and content

• Mobile and portable devices

http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/resources

5 Toolbox themes

Learner focused resources but also ideal for staff developmenttraining. All based around free tools and technologies.

http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/tbx

4 resources for library staff

• Publisher Lookup site

• eBook platform accessibility guidance

• Obtaining text books in alternative formats

• Libraries at the heart of learning publication.

3 (x6) learning provider projects

Making the most of Jisc Resources for inclusive teaching and learning:ACL, WBL, Specialist Colleges, FE, Offender learning

Advisory servicesJisc Collections

Jisc supported tools

Curriculum based exemplars

Open educational resources

Xerte Toolkits

2 voices

• TechDis Jess and TechDis Jack listen to Jess when I copy text to clipboard

• Free for post 16 learning providers AND their learners.

• With free (eg Balabolka) tools and inbuilt functionality (eg Word 2010 “Speak text”) offers high quality text to speech for 4.6 million learners.

• 13/42 colleges in SW have downloaded them.

1 leg to stand on

Appropriate use of simple and free technologies can transform inclusion.Inclusive practice is good for ALL.Inclusive practices are a legal right for a disabled learner.Disabled learners are getting more aware of what you could and should be doing.Jisc TechDis and Jisc RSCs can help you do it.