This page lists all the Open Educational Resources (OERs) that were created for the further course Assistive Technologies, which was created by the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (JKU) and the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. All content from the course is available as OERs in a folder on Google Drive.
These OERs are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY 4.0). Simply put, this licence allows you to share, adapt and redistribute the content of the OERs, provided that you correctly attribute the original creators of these resources (Dublin Institute of Technologies). If you are not familiar with this licence, please read it before reusing these OERs.
Week 1: Introduction
OER folder on Google Drive.
- Welcome (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Assistive Technologies: A Definition (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- History and Evolution an AT (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU); image used in the document.
- Requirements to Ordinary Products (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Barriers Due to Vision Impairment (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Barriers for People with Physical Disabilities (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Barriers for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Barriers for People with Intellectual Disabilities (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Summary and Discussion (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
Week 2: Access to Content 1
OER folder on Google Drive.
- Introduction (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Common Problems (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Screen Reader (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Braille Devices (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), image of a Braille display used in the document.
- Speech Output (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Try out a Screen Reader (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Screen Magnification (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), screenshot of magnifier, used in the Word document.
- Technology for Colour Blind (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU); images used in the document: colour perception test, form with colour-coded fields (pink and green), form with colour-coded fields (red and green).
- Try out a Screen Magnifier (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Summary and Discussion (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
Week 3: Access to Content 2
OER folder on Google Drive.
- Common Problems (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Captions and Subtitles for Videos (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Audio Descriptions for Videos (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Create Captions on YouTube (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Tools for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), image of sign language interpreter used in the document.
- Easy2Read and Plain Language (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Tools for People with Intellectual Disabilities (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Tools for people with intellectual disabilities / Try out Claro Reader (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
Week 4: Control Input
OER folder on Google Drive.
- Introduction (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Common Problems / Captions and Subtitles for Videos (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Alternative Pointing Devices (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), images used in the document: chin joystick, trackball, vertical mouse.
- Headtracker / Eyetracker (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), images used in the document:eye tracking, headtracker, head tracker, head tracker tracking open mouth.
- Try out an Eyetracker (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), images used in the document:Camera Mouse Settings: Clicking, Camera Mouse Settings: Control.
- Alternative Keyboards (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), images used in the document:one-handed keyboard, keyboard with big characters, ergonomic keyboard, small keyboard.
- Virtual Keyboards (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), image used in the document: Mac OS X on-screen keyboard.
- Switch Access Scanning (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), image used in the document:switch.
- Try out Switch Access Scanning (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Speech recognition (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Software to Control Input (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU), images used in the document:Asterics, SteadyMouse settings.
- Summary and Discussion (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
Week 5: Conclusion and Further Ideas
OER folder on Google Drive.
- Summing it up (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Need for Accessibility (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Basic Principles of Accessible Software (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Accessibility APIs and Why They Matter (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Accessible Versus Inaccessible User Interfaces (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).
- Reflection (Microsoft Word document, copyright Peter Heumader, JKU).