ELC 088: How to Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners

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If you’re feeling overwhelmed about how to practice inclusive design, you’re not the only one. Perhaps you’ve heard multiple definitions for the same terms, you find the specifications confusing or you’re not sure which standards apply to your work. You need a common sense approach to inclusive design. I think you’ll find that in this conversation with Sarah Mercier, author of Design for All Learners.

Sarah Mercier is CEO and strategic consultant at Build Capable. She  specializes in instructional strategy and learning technology. Sarah is known for translating highly technical concepts and research to real-world practice. Sarah is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and business events on topics such as instructional design and development, accessibility, data strategy, and learning ecosystems. 

WE DISCUSS:

• A definition for design for all.
• What surprised you as you put the book together.
• What are some common myths about accessibility and inclusive design.
• For those who want to begin the journey, how can they ease into accessible design.
• The most important ways to accommodate the widest audience of learners when producing eLearning.
• The screen readers you have on your devices.
• How in-person and virtual facilitators can prepare to accommodate all participants.
• Ways to accommodate neurodivergent learners.
• How accessibility advocates persuade leaders to infuse a “design for all” mindset into the organizational culture.

TIME: 35 minutes

TRANSCRIPT: ELC 088 Transcript: Begin Your Journey of Designing for All Learners

RESOURCES and LINKS MENTIONED:

• Design for All Learners by Sarah Mercier
• Sarah’s company: Build Capable
• Build-Capable Accessibility Primer
• Accessibility Videos from W3C: W3C Web Accessibility Perspectives Videos
• Haben Girma Videos: She is the first deaf-blind person to graduate from Harvard Law
• Screen Readers: Narrator (on PCs), Voiceover (on Macs), NVDA, Jaws
• Transcription Tools: Descript (also a video editor), Rev (also Otter.ai)
• Getting Started with Inclusive Design

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