greatest gains by supporting accessibility-oriented design and development initiatives. Specifically, those initiatives maintaining a focus on disability and accessibility considerations from the outset will enable a wider and more robust application of OER to settings in which students with a variety of ability levels and learner characteristics can equally benefit from the many affordances of open-sourced educational products. VIII. Resources For educators seeking to create OERs and attend to accessibility from the outset—a key component of universal design—there are a number of resources and tools specifically aimed at supporting the design and production of accessible OERs. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has produced a set of detailed accessibility guidelines for content creators who are developing resources using the EPUB3 specification for e-books. This resource, , specifically targets best-practice approaches for addressing the accessibility of text, media, and navigation in EPUB3 products and can be useful for any author desiring information about how to create accessible digital media products. The UK-based JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has posted extensive OER guidance for content creators, including series of tutorials focused on how to embed —a accessibility features in commonly used document creation software (Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.). The FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education) Project at OCAD University in Toronto has made available a free resource for OER creators: the . This resource is designed to the accessible creation of OERs across a wide variety of media: text, audio, images, and video. Associated with the FLOE Project is the FLUID Project and its open-source OER creation tool, , for creating accessible web-based resources suitable for instruction. Cannect.org has produced a (Direct link: projectone) that offers a highly detailed, approach to creating accessible online learning content. While the guidance provided in this resource goes well beyond what are typically thought of as OERs, it provides a very comprehensive overview of the importance of ensuring accessibility for both digital content designed for instruction and for learning management systems that deliver that content. The Open Educational Resources Infokit produced by the UK-based Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme offers both a highly-detailed
greatest gains by supporting accessibility-oriented design and development initiatives. Specifically, those initiatives maintaining a focus on disability and accessibility considerations from the outset will enable a wider and more robust application of OER to settings in which students with a variety of ability levels and learner characteristics can equally benefit from the many affordances of open-sourced educational products. VIII. Resources For educators seeking to create OERs and attend to accessibility from the outset—a key component of universal design—there are a number of resources and tools specifically aimed at supporting the design and production of accessible OERs. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) has produced a set of detailed accessibility guidelines for content creators who are developing resources using the EPUB3 specification for e-books. This resource, , specifically targets best-practice approaches for addressing the accessibility of text, media, and navigation in EPUB3 products and can be useful for any author desiring information about how to create accessible digital media products. The UK-based JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) has posted extensive OER guidance for content creators, including —a series of tutorials focused on how to embed accessibility features in commonly used document creation software (Word, PowerPoint, PDF, etc.). The FLOE (Flexible Learning for Open Education) Project at OCAD University in Toronto has made available a free resource for OER creators: the . This resource is designed to the accessible creation of OERs across a wide variety of media: text, audio, images, and video. Associated with the FLOE Project is the FLUID Project and its open-source OER creation tool, , for creating accessible web-based resources suitable for instruction. Cannect.org has produced a (Direct link: projectone) that offers a highly detailed, approach to creating accessible online learning content. While the guidance provided in this resource goes well beyond what are typically thought of as OERs, it provides a very comprehensive overview of the importance of ensuring accessibility for both digital content designed for instruction and for learning management systems that deliver that content. The Open Educational Resources Infokit produced by the UK-based Higher Education Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme offers both a highly-detailed
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