Home for alternative formatted digital books turning hard copy to accessible formats.
Anything from digital textbooks and novels, they can even format any books you need that they don’t already have made. Digitally splicing and scanning every page needed for the student. ARC exists for students with learning disabilities both physical and visual. Perceptual disability holding seeing or understanding in its original physical books. The Accessible BC Act (ABC Act) is a BC law to identify and prevent barriers to Accessibility.
A accessible committee is (should be) appointed in every district, half of the people need to have a disability and at least 1 person with an Indigenous background. To work with the district to make it more accessible for all students. Not just adding in ramps and railings (which is of course important) but there is a lot more to be done. Especially with learning disabilities there are so many different ones both noticeable and not.
I totally forgot about if parents had a disability providing alternative ways of reading or incorporating alternative text. There is so much that needs to be done for people with disabilities both mental and physical anything we can do that helps we should. Stuff to consider when writing emails, forms, powerpoints etc.. for students and even parents.
Font: calibri, arial, verdana, and Tahoma
-size higher than 11
Lettering: Watch colors and contrast
-Use alternative text and image
Hyperlinks: use full name not just the url text to speech readers will read the entire thing, which can be confusing and long.
This is a great resource and I didn’t know this existed till the presentation. This is such a good idea and I will be using this if needed in my practice.
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