Open licensing is an accessibility and inclusion feature of OERs

Dominik Lukes

@TechCzech - Researchity.net

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Slide 2: Attribution-ShareAlike

Attribution-ShareAlike

Three circular Creative Commons icons: the letters CC, a person for attribution, and a circular arrow for share-alike.

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Slide 3: Questions / comments

Questions / comments

@TechCzech

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Slide 4: Presentation on j.mp/oer-accessibility

Presentation on j.mp/oer-accessibility

Screenshot of this presentation on a slide-sharing site: its title slide with the Dyslexia Action logo, the title “Open licensing is an accessibility and inclusion feature of OERs” and the name Dominik Lukes, beside a list of recommended presentations.

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Slide 5: Projects:

Projects:

Screenshot of the iLearnRW website with a navigation bar and a cartoon game scene containing the word “laptop”.

Screenshot of the Load2Learn website, delivered by RNIB and Dyslexia Action, with a green banner offering learning resources in downloadable, accessible formats and links Get started (UK) and Get started (overseas).

iLearnRW, Load2Learn

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Slide 6: Accessibility needs

Accessibility needs

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Slide 7: Accessibility needs

Screenshot of a reading app on a phone, titled “04 Toby Jugs”, showing paragraphs of text in which some letters are coloured green or orange, with play, previous and next buttons at the bottom.

Listen to books (narrated / text to speech)

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Slide 8: Accessibility needs

Screenshot of the prototype reader showing large, widely spaced text on a pale yellow page: “We think that foxes have been living in England for a very long time. Fossils tell…”.

Change the look of text, images, etc.

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Slide 9: Accessibility needs

Screenshot of a word processor with its Navigation pane open beside a document, listing Section 1 and its subsections; red arrows point to the View tab, the Navigation Pane option and the Section 1 entry.

Navigate using outlines and maps

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Slide 10: Accessibility needs

Screenshot of the Simple English Wikipedia page “Simple English Wikipedia”, which explains that its articles use shorter sentences and simpler grammar than the English Wikipedia and lists who uses it: students, children, adults who find it hard to learn or read, and people who are learning English.

Simplify text or make other changes

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Slide 11: Current licensing regime (UK)

Current licensing regime (UK)

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Slide 12: Current licensing regime (UK)

Print disability license allows modification of copyrighted works for persons with a Print Disability (visual, cognitive physical).

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Slide 13: Current licensing regime (UK)

Load2Learn makes textbooks available in accessible formats (Word, ePub) under CLA Print Disability Licence

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Slide 14: Current licensing regime (UK)

Excludes EAL, deaf users
Excludes modification of content
Excludes use by non-Print Disabled users for personal preference

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Slide 15: Current licensing regime (UK)

Students love to customise everything.

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Inclusion = Don’t stand out!

A photograph of small clay sheep: four white woolly sheep and one black sheep in the middle of them.

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Slide 17: Current licensing regime (UK)

If all students would use modified documents, those who really need it would not stand out and be more likely to take advantage of assistive technologies.

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Slide 18: Image credits

Image credits

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Slide 19: Image credits

Black Sheep surrounded by Leon Riskin CC BY https://www.flickr.com/photos/ionics/6338284584

Open licensing is an accessibility and inclusion feature of OERs

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