According to the Center for Universal Design at NCSU, universal design is "the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design," and it "benefits people of all ages and abilities." On the other hand, when we think of web accessibility we often think of doing a lot of work to benefit only a limited group of people. In reality both design principles have the same end goal. In this presentation we will discuss the principles of universal design for learning and demonstrate how applying these techniques to curricula both make courses more usable by everyone and accessible to people with disabilities. We will show real world examples of these techniques from searching for text in print books to using a screen reader to browse the web.
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