To help close this accessible technology skills gap, Teach Access leverages partnerships with faculty and higher education programs, including traditional colleges and universities to deliver high-quality and turnkey accessibility learning materials. Equipped with materials, resources, and a network of peers, the program provides faculty with the support to build accessibility concepts into courses and teach practical applications of accessibility to learners in their classrooms.
This OER solution includes accessibility teaching resources in a wide range of courses, including Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Web Design & Development, UX Design, Visual & Graphic Design, Instructional Technology, Game & Interactive Media Design, Robotics, Technical Writing, and Psychology.
To refine, organize, and host the collection of accessibility-focused teaching resources, Teach Access selected instructional design firmiDesign, which has worked with more than 100 institutions to design, build and support award-winning online courses. Through a meticulous curriculum-mapping process, instructional design experts from iDesign collaborated with faculty experts on digital accessibility and inclusion to review hundreds of faculty-submitted teaching resources and learning objects—now available in a central collection of OER.
The first year of this collaboration between Teach Access and iDesign included a series of meetings with a diverse group of experts in faculty development and instructional design across a variety of institution types. This team helped inform the creation of a roadmap for future professional development and developed an outreach strategy for sharing the accessibility teaching resources. With the first phase of the project and launch now complete, Teach Access recently secured additional grant funding from Verizon as part of their commitment to the Valuable 500. With Verizon’s support, Teach Access will continue its work to ensure a future where technology is born accessible and inclusive for all.
“Accessibility can’t be an afterthought. It needs to be woven throughout the very design and engineering processes used to create and build technology in the first place,” said Whitney Kilgore, PhD, co-founder and chief academic officer of iDesign, “This is about ensuring that the next generation of developers, designers and engineers are equipped to create technology that is responsive to the needs of every individual.”
This press release originally appeared online.
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