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title: "Open licensing is an accessibility and inclusion feature of OERs"
author: "Dominik Lukes, @TechCzech"
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## Open licensing is an accessibility and inclusion feature of OERs
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Dominik Lukes

@TechCzech - Researchity.net

## Attribution-ShareAlike
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![Three circular Creative Commons icons: the letters CC, a person for attribution, and a circular arrow for share-alike.](assets/media/img-4b9230e78ea05697.png)

## Questions / comments
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@TechCzech

## Presentation on **j.mp/oer-accessibility**
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![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.](assets/media/img-30f3e249b69e8de6.png)

## Projects:
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![Screenshot of the iLearnRW website with a navigation bar and a cartoon game scene containing the word “laptop”.](assets/media/img-93bb373ba11a776d.png)

![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).](assets/media/img-0aa2537a8fd66858.png)

iLearnRW, Load2Learn

## Accessibility needs
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### Accessibility needs
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![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.](assets/media/img-d2abe20174707066.png)

Listen to books (narrated / text to speech)

### Accessibility needs
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![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…”.](assets/media/img-555611ca5e261c6e.png)

Change the look of text, images, etc.

### Accessibility needs
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![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.](assets/media/img-cc5becd1800706c9.png)

Navigate using outlines and maps

### Accessibility needs
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![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.](assets/media/img-94e96df00502782f.png)

Simplify text or make other changes

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

### Current licensing regime (UK)
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![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).](assets/media/img-0aa2537a8fd66858.png)

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

### Current licensing regime (UK)
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- Excludes EAL, deaf users
- Excludes modification of content
- Excludes use by non-Print Disabled users for personal preference

### Current licensing regime (UK)
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Students love to customise everything.

### Current licensing regime (UK)
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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.](assets/media/img-a551bfde860db4ac.jpg)

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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.

## Image credits
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### Image credits
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Black Sheep surrounded by Leon Riskin CC BY [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ionics/6338284584](https://www.flickr.com/photos/ionics/6338284584)

## Thank you
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@TechCzech