I think it is tremendously important to highlight organizations and initiatives that work to make higher education a more inclusive environment. For this reason, I wanted to let everyone know about the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation at Georgia Tech! @CIDIaccess (1/7)
Before I became a professor, I was staff at another college and participated in creating open educational resources for Affordable Learning Georgia. One of the presenters worked at CIDI (used to be called AMAC) and talked about accessibility in powerpoint and text. (2/7)
I learned so much about how to format the content to be friendly to screen readers and transcript devices. You know how we normally create space in between paragraphs by hitting the enter button repeatedly? Well, that gets picked up by screen readers! (3/7)
It is disorienting to the visually-impaired to follow the narrative of the text and then be hit by 4 or more paragraph break symbols. The solution? Page breaks and changing the paragraph spacing between one paragraph and the other. (4/7)
What else does CIDI do? They do research on improving accessibility of education and provide training to professionals and higher education to be more inclusive. They help students acquire assistive technology to allow them to thrive in their studies. (5/7)
They can also provide accessibility checks for any place of higher education to identify areas in which accessibility can be improved. So if your college or university is serious about improving accommodations, CIDI can help guide their efforts! (6/7)
If anyone knows of any other cool organizations or initiatives that is expanding inclusivity of disabled people into higher education, I would love to hear about them! Let's highlight these wonderful people and their work in creating a better tomorrow! (7/7)
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