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Information Literacy Summit 2017: Teaching For All: Making Your Instruction Sessions Accessible
- 1. Teaching For All: Making Your Instruction Sessions Accessible JJ Pionke University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign pionke@illinois.edu
- 2. Objectives • Assess our one shots for accessibility • Adapt our one shots to be more accessible
- 3. If accessibility is so important (and the law), why don’t we take it into account more often?
- 4. Some Facts and Figures • 15% of the world’s population has a disability according to WHO • At any one given time, about 20% of the US population has a mental health disability, temporary or permanent (Mental Health First Aid) • Almost 60% of the US population will experience a mental health disability at some point in their lives (Mental Health First Aid) • Q: What is the average time from onset of a mental health disorder to seeking treatment? • Q: What does this mean for our one-shots?
- 5. Universal Design • What is it? • Why is it better than accessible design? • Can it be used in our lesson plans? Why?
- 6. User Experience Testing • What do people actually do versus what we think that they do • Use ethnography to understand your patrons • UX Lib: User Experience in Libraries
- 7. Tips for Text • A minimum of 12pt font in an easy to read font (Q: What’s up with fonts?) and size 14 is better when using paper. • Serif versus Sans Serif • Dyslexie/OpenDyslexic • CONTRAST • Consider backgrounds and color schemes (Q: Why?) • Less is More (Q: Why?)
- 8. Tips for Presenting • Face your audience, head up, be visible (Q: Why?) • Speak loud, clear, and at a normal pace (don’t rush) • Walk around the classroom (Q: Why?) • Q: Should you use a mic? • Q: Should they use a mic?
- 9. Handouts, PPTS, etc • Make available ahead of time • Follow the tips for text guidelines • Make available in multiple formats • Test your PowerPoint on a screen reader (Q: How does it sound?)
- 10. Web Accessibility • Is your web content – homepage, wordpress, LibGuide, etc. – accessible? • Have you adhered to WCAG? • A Web For Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences
- 11. Resource Alert! • Excellent primer for making libraries accessible • Making The Library Accessible For All
- 12. Another Resource Alert! • Geared towards the 16 week college class but totally adaptable • Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers
- 14. Assessment! • Snag an index card • Write down 1-3 changes you intend to make in your instruction • Leave them on a chair by the door on your way out • Thank you!