Overview
Want to learn how to improve the readability and usability of your materials? Join us to learn how to create accessible content with EPUB. You will learn how to take basic documents created in Google Docs and Microsoft Word and easily convert them to EPUB format. Doing so will improve the readability and usability of your materials. You will also learn about WordToEPUB, a free plug-in for Microsoft Word you can use to create accessible EPUBs with just a few clicks. Other tools for making accessible epub will be explored. Make your materials more inclusive for everyone!
Learning Objectives
- Define EPUB and describe at least three benefits for selecting it as a format for exporting and sharing educational content.
- Describe one or more ways to use the built-in accessibility checker of Microsoft Word (or the Grackle extension for Google Docs) to perform an accessibility check before exporting a document to the EPUB format.
- Describe one or more ways to use the ACE by DAISY checker to confirm the accessibility of an exported EPUB publication created from a Microsoft Word or Google Docs document.
Primary & Secondary Strand
Mainstream & Web Accessible Technologies
Target Audience
- Accessibility Professional
- ADA Coordinator
- Administrators
- Alternative Media Specialist
- Consumers/Individuals with Disabilities
- Consultants/Trainers
- Curriculum and Instruction
- Disability Services
- Educators
- Faculty/Instructors - Higher Education
- Instructional Technologist
- Media Specialist
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Teachers of the Visually Impaired
- Visual Impairment Specialists
Experience Level
Introductory
Primary Life Cycle Addressed
All
Session Delivery Format
In-person presentation with live-stream
Course Schedule
This course was given at the ATIA 2022 Conference on Thursday, Jan 27: 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM (EST)
Continuing Education Credits
For Satisfactory Completion and Continuing Education information, please visit: ATIA Learning Center CEUs
This course is offered for the following CE Provider Credits:
ACVREP; AOTA; IACET
For: 0.10 CEU Units or 1.0 CEU Hours.
This course was approved by CRCC for CRC CEUs and was included in the ATIA CRC Transition & Workplace Accessibility Series (2023-2024). This series offering was available from March 20, 2023, through March 19, 2024.
Speaker/s:
Lynn McCormack
CAST, Senior Technologist
Biography
Lynn McCormack joined CAST as a Software Engineer in 2010, bringing rich professional experience in technology, K-12 education, and project management. She worked in the high tech industry as a software engineer and project manager for more than a decade before entering the education field. Certified in Massachusetts to teach high school math, Lynn has taught at the middle school, high school, and post-secondary level. She is also experienced in curriculum development as well as teacher professional development.
At CAST, Lynn has worked on numerous projects developing technology based universally designed environments for both students and teachers. Currently, Lynn is working on the Center on Inclusive Software for Learning Project and National Center for Accessible Educational Materials where she is passionate about raising the level of UDL and accessibility in all learning materials.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
I receive Salary from employment.
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No
Luis Perez
National AEM Center at CAST, Technical Assistance Specialist
Biography
Luis Perez is a technical assistance specialist for the National Center on Accessible Education-al Materials at CAST. He holds a doctorate in special education and a master's degree in instructional technology from the University of South Florida. Luis is a Past-President of the Inclusive Learning Network of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), which named him its 2016 Outstanding Inclusive Educator. He was also recognized with an ISTE Making It Happen! Award in 2020. Other recognitions include Apple Distinguished Educator (2009) and Google Certified Innovator (2014). Luis has published three books on accessibility, mobile learning and UDL: Mobile Learning for All (Corwin Press), Dive into UDL (ISTE) and Learning on the Go (CAST Publishing). He currently serves as an Education and Learning strand advisor for the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA).
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Presenters are salaried employees of CAST, Inc. Luis Perez is also an author and received royalties for two publications: Dive Into UDL (International Society for Technology in Education), and Learing on the Go (CAST Publishing).He currently serves as an Education and Learning strand advisor for the Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA).
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No
Kristin Robinson
CAST, Instructional Designer & Research Associate
Biography
I have the best job in the world. With background training as a cultural historian and teacher at k-8, undergraduate, and graduate levels, I came to CAST with an understanding that opportunities for success can be profoundly impacted by the structures, intellectual, emotional, and physical, that make up our world. Now, as an instructional designer, I work with researchers and technology specialists to translate research into practice, and as a research associate I test and implement prototypes and tools with students, teachers, and adult learners, and use their feedback and insights to inform revisions to tools and practices as part of ongoing cycles of improvement. Why? So that every learner has access to and has an enriching learning experience. I really do have the best job in the world!
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Presenters are salaried employees of CAST, Inc.
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No