Accessibility

Presentations

• Acquiring Educational Technology for all Students: Considering Instructional Software Part 1
• Acquiring Educational Technology for all Students: Considering Instructional Software Part 2

Articles

• Accessibility Checklist for Educational Software by Patricia Hendricks and Jennifer Daley
• Accessibility Glossary by Patricia Hendricks and Jennifer Daley, MAR*TEC
• Accessibility Issues with Graphing Calculators by Judy Rein, Center for Technology in Education
• Acquiring Educational Technology for all Students: Considering Instructional Software by Patricia Hendricks, Temple University
• K–12 Learning - Plato Learning
• Overview of Accessibility Evaluation Tools
• Special Education - Plato Learning

Links

The PLATO K-12 Learning Technologies
This section includes a comprehensive listing of our curricula and the second document entitled "Solutions for students with special needs" describes how learning technologies can be used to enhance academic achievement for students with disabilities.

Sample lesson plans from PLATO Learning
Educators can access some sample lessons from our corporate Web site. Here are some appropriate links.

• Sample reading lesson
• Sample writing lesson
• Sample math lesson
• Sample algebra lesson
• Sample science lesson

Evaluation of Educational Software

• CAST E-reader
• Riverdeep, Special Needs, Universal Access
  Information on how products meet universal learning needs.
• Text Help - Read and Write Software
• WYNN

Software and Operating Systems

• Adobe Acrobat Solutions for Accessibility, Adobe Acrobat 5
  Provides new capabilities that improve access for users with disabilities.
• Adobe Acrobat Access for Acrobat and Reader 4.0X
  The Adobe Acrobat Access Plug-in 4.05 enables users with vision impairments to read Adobe PDF documents in Acrobat 4.0x or Acrobat Reader 4.0X
• IBM Software Accessibility Checklist
  A tool for evaluation of software using Section 508, Subpart B, Technical Standards
• Microsoft Accessibility, Technology for Everyone
  Overview of Product Resources