AccessMU Center

Where:

Shriver Center 316C

Speakers: 

Karla Morris, M.Ed.
Manager of Instructional Design Services l University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Lyman Dukes III, Ph.D.
Professor l University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Casey Frechette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor l University of South Florida, St. Petersburg

Session Description:

Can captions and interactive transcripts help improve student learning?

In this webinar, Lyman Dukes III, Ph.D., Karla Morris, M.Ed., and Casey Frechette, Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, take us through the fascinating findings from an in-depth study on the use of captions and interactive transcripts in seven online courses.

This webinar will cover:

• Do captions and interactive transcripts improve retention and comprehension?
• How do students use captions and transcripts?
• Are there drawbacks to using captions and transcripts?
• Is one better than the other?
• What should your organization consider when implementing captions and transcripts?

Where:

Shriver Center 316C

Speakers: 

Robert Gould, Ph.D., Instructor and Project Coordinator, Department of Disability and Human Development at UIC

Session Description:

Discussions about the meaningful inclusion of workers with disabilities are often missing from research and practice. Join us as the presenters discuss the findings from a research study that included interviewing industry leaders involved in the diversity and inclusion efforts of more than 40 businesses across the Great Lakes Region (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin).  The research team worked with the businesses to better understand the process of creating an inclusive workplace culture in relation to informal and formal policies, programs, initiatives, and practices that support the recruitment, hiring, and retention of workers with disabilities. The presenters provide a summary of some of the emerging best practices and challenges to implementing them. There will be time for participants to ask the presenters about their work.

Where:

Shriver Center 316C

Speakers: 

Jonathan Avila – Chief Accessibility Officer

Session Description:

Mobile usage is growing at a rapid pace as the ways we use our devices continually evolve. Using smartphones to perform basic activities of daily living like banking, shopping, or scheduling appointments is no longer just a convenience—it’s become the norm. And the ability to use these features is often even more valuable to people with disabilities, removing real-world barriers to the products & services they need.

Ensuring your mobile apps and mobile web content is accessible isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s a legal requirement. Digital accessibility lawsuits continue to rise, and settlement agreements are increasing including both web and mobile accessibility requirements.

Where:

Shriver Center 316C

Speakers: 

Derek Featherstone, Chief Experience Officer

Elle Waters, Vice President, Community & Global Development

Special Guest: Dan Mall, Founder, SuperFriendly

Session Description:

Design Systems help us extract more value from a project, pulling out well-designed components as candidates for reuse on future products vs. reinventing the wheel every time. Those proven and tested components can then propagate across product teams for increased consistency and efficiency, ultimately driving better products to market faster.

They can also help you streamline accessibility—integrating accessible components in a standardized framework to consistently create inclusive user experiences.

Get it right, and you propagate inclusion—building software and technology that works better for everyone, including people with disabilities.

And when you get it wrong? You propagate exclusion. It’s that simple.

Derek Featherstone, Elle Waters, and special guest Dan Mall come together to share their combined experience in the trenches working with clients to “get it right” through development, training, and roll-out of user-experience-driven design systems. They share valuable lessons learned along the way–and innovative ideas for moving forward–to ensure that the right systems are in place to build technology that’s accessible to everyone.