I've been slipping, and not posting. There have been a variety of things worth posting. So, I'll make this a series of things that should have been posted over the past months.
Here's an article that I co-authored with Mary Rice. It's a result of a session we did together at DLAC 2022. Connecting accessibility, third-party curriculum and student success
School districts must carefully vet digital resources to ensure IDEA compliance, two learning accessibility advocates write.
The US Department of Justice posted Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA.
There's nothing new in the guidance. It's the same things that we've been talking about for years. But, it is nice to have DoJ reiterate them. And in that post there's some examples of issues, again, no surprises but useful information when you want to show examples.
The Texas Legislature, established the Texas Commission on Virtual Education.
The commission was established to develop and make recommendations regarding the delivery of virtual education in the public school system and state funding for virtual education under the Foundation School Program. Tphe Commission has to prepare a report to deliver to the next Legislative session that begins in January 2023. They hold monthly meetings which are streamed, and the past meetings are available on the website. Mary Rice and I will be making a presentation to the Commission at it's May 25th session.
There's a nice TCEA blog post: How to Encourage Digital Accessibility written by Miguel Guhlin after we had a few email exchanges.
I think this is a significant blog post for TCEA. I've been trying to get some visibility for digital accessibility within TCEA for years and I count this as a significant win.
