Inclusive Design and OERs

Jess Mitchell | Inclusive Design Research Centre OCAD University | Toronto, Canada

Inclusive, not Universal• Universal -- one-size-

fits-all

• Inclusive -- one-size-fits-one

!

(Photo: Tatyana McFadden; Boston, London, Chicago, NYC)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Tatyana_McFadden_Paralympic_World_Cup_2009.jpg

What’s Accessible

What’s Cool

Making OERs for everyone

• Personalize to meet needs and preferences

• Have an impact on barriers to adoption and use

• We all benefit

http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyn404/5203873918/

Reframing disability

Mismatch between the user and the technology

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deditos/2478477536/

What is accessibility?

Matching unique users with flexible technology!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50393252@N02/4822063888/

Commitment + Perspective

• Start building inclusivity into your content, interfaces, sites, and apps

• It isn’t a task, it is a commitment

Inclusively Designing

• Strategies (for content creation)

• User Interfaces (for websites and applications)

• Tools (content, interface, and getting help)

Creating the Match

The Inclusive Learning Design Handbook!!!http://handbook.floeproject.org

Strategies for Content

• Semantic elements

• Text style, size, contrast

• Think about modes (text, audio, images, and video)

Transformations

With great content come great possibilities...!!

• transform presentation• transform content

http://www.flickr.com/photos/63794459@N07/6394965487/

Learner Options

Users can transform interfaces!!HTML, CSS, + JavaScript

HTML 5 Video Player

Captions, Interactive Transcripts, Internationalization

Tools

Electrons! Learners can discover new ways to interact with content!!!!GPII, Cloud4All, PGA

Next Steps

• These are skills we can teach

• Generating metadata

• Rating resources + improvement loop

• More tools

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90585146@N08/8222922317/

We love to collaborate

• Join our community @FluidProject

• Code: github.com/fluid-project

• Learn from our designs: wiki.fluidproject.org