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Working Together: Deaf and Hearing People Online Course is designed to help employers develop the sensitivity and skills to communicate effectively with deaf and hard-of-hearing employees, enable deaf and hearing colleagues to work together more productively, and assist in fostering a workplace culture of diversity and inclusion. This course is...
CADET is free, downloadable caption-authoring software that enables anyone to produce high-quality caption files that are compatible with any media player that supports the display of captions. CADET can also be used to generate audio-description scripts. This software does not require an internet connection in order to operate: it runs locally in...
This Keys to Access website was developed by the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP)  to provide guidelines for creating high-quality captions and descriptions for online media. Keys to Access includes some background information about DCMP as well as detailed descriptions of both captions and descriptions. Both the Caption Key and the...
This tool, made available by TPGi, can be used to "determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators." Colour Contrast Analyser features include: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 compliance indicators, several ways to set colors, support for alpha transparency on...
Tanaguru Contrast Finder is a free online tool that determines whether color scheme(s) chosen for a website are sufficiently contrasting. The tool utilizes the international minimum contrast ratio established by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Tanaguru Contrast Finder will suggest similar colors that meet contrast requirements if the...
This webinar, made available by Internet Scout Research Group, discusses strategies for making media more accessible for persons with various disabilities. Presenters include Rachael Bower, Director of Internet Scout Research Group, Madeleine Rothberg, Senior Subject Matter Expert from National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH, and Bryan...
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This resource provides a list of ten strategies that deaf and hard-of-hearing students would like teachers to use in the classroom to improve access to learning. The following are examples of the strategies included: don't use words like "this" and "that" as referents in the class or lab, treat all students equally, have a positive/flexible...
This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Post Secondary Outcomes, provides a 2-page tip sheet that provides information about assistive listening devices and their use in the classroom. This tip sheet includes an overview and discusses the following questions: What are assistive listening systems, What is a telecoil, What are the different...
This web page, from the National Deaf Center, includes state reports on postsecondary outcomes of deaf individuals. PDF reports are included for each state, Washington D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Figures and data are provided on educational attainment and earnings for deaf individuals compared to hearing individuals for each state versus...
This webpage, from the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes, provides a 20-page report that includes an overview of undergraduate enrollment of deaf students in the United States. This report is intended to be a resource for community members, advocates, educators, researchers, and policy makers. Data used in this report is from the 2016...