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Pima Community College: Creating Accessible Online Math Courses - Chris Lamar, Syllabus

Students with visual, hearing, cognitive, or motor impairment disabilities make up 7.2 percent of the beginning post-secondary population. In 2002, Pima Community College (PCC), serving three counties in southern Arizona, had 720 students identified with disabilities, and—like most educational institutions—was grappling with how to enhance accessibility to meet the technical standards mandated by federal law Section 508 for telecommunications, multimedia products, and Web-based curriculum and services. So, when Macromedia Inc. and the League for Innovation in the Community College approached Chris Lamar, director of PCC's telecommunications and production services, to collaborate in pilot-testing the newly released Macromedia Studio MX Suite software, she jumped at the chance. "It was a real godsend," says Lamar. "They wanted to explore the challenges of implementing accessibility standards in online courses in community colleges, and our course developers wanted to learn how to use software designed to support those standards.".... The Pima team created two online math courses and, in the process, confronted challenges related to conversion, pedagogy, conventions, and interoperability with screen readers and other assistive devices.

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