Prsentation for Tecg Ed 2010 by CSUDH

1. CSU Dominguez Hills Text to Speech Service Ron Bergmann, Ed.D. Associate Vice President for IT and CIO Jeremiah Woolsey Director of Instructional Technology Wei Ma Electronic Resources Management & Reference Librarian

3. Americans with Disabilities Act

4. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

5. SB 105

8. CSU Accessible Technology Initiative “It is the policy of the CSU to make information technology resources and services accessible to all CSU students, faculty, staff and the general public regardless of disability.”

9. CSU Accessible Technology Initiative CSU Dominguez Hills is committed to provide access and equity for all eligible students. It is the law, but more importantly it is the right thing to do

11. Instructional Materials Accessibility

13. CSU Accessible Technology Initiative Procurement California Government Code 11135 requires the CSU to comply with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and to apply the accessibility standards published by the U.S. Access Board for electronic and information technology (EIT) products and services that it buys, creates, uses, and maintains. .

14. CSU Accessible Technology Initiative Procurement EIT is information technology (IT) and any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in the creation, conversion, or duplication of data or information.

15. CSU Accessible Technology Instructional Materials ©National Federation of the Blind

16. CSU Accessible Technology Instructional Materials Overarching Principle: To apply universal design—an approach to the design of products and services to be usable by the greatest number of people, including individuals with disabilities Like Curb Cuts-electronic curb cuts

17. CSU Accessible Technology Instructional Materials “From Where I Sit”

18. Some examples

19. Examples Using Camtasia®, Elluminate® Kurzweil® and Dragon Naturally Speaking®

20. Example of Captioning with Camtasia Play

21. Example of Using Elluminate with Voice Recognition Software Play

22. A Student’s Perspective on the importance of appropriate assistive technologies Play