Virtual Accommodations for VE Teachers
This site will give resources for accommodations in the virtual setting. Many tools can be used for subject area content.
Welcome to the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials. We provide resources and technical assistance for educators, parents, students, publishers, conversion houses, accessible media producers, and others interested in learning more about AEM and implementing AEM and the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).
We have created this page to serve as your entry point for the many resources available on our website. The site also has a robust search feature you can use to locate resources about a specific topic not included on this page.
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The Described and Captioned Media Program is a free-loan library of accessible educational media for use by teachers and family member of K-12 students with a vision or hearing loss. This U.S. Department of Education-funded program also serves as a clearinghouse of accessibility information and training resources as well as a gateway to accessibility information from partnering organizations.
Many of the learning materials educators use in the classroom are self-created. This has been made possible by the greater availability and improved ease of use of authoring tools. These tools now often include options for adding accessibility into the content creation workflow, and standards such as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide guidance for how to do so. WCAG, which is now at version 2.0, is the international standard for making web content accessible. It is the foundation for many national accessibility laws, including Section 508 in the U.S.
This page provides an overview of classroom tools for making math content more accessible with supports such as text to speech for reading math expressions aloud, handwriting recognition, sonification of graphs and more.
Video is the way many of us not only consume content for entertainment but also learn and access information. For students who have grown up in the age of mobile devices, with their powerful cameras and ubiquitous connectivity, video is also an important method of communication and self-expression. To be relevant to the interests of today’s youth, education should incorporate a variety of media, including video.