{"id":57776,"date":"2014-06-17T16:09:35","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/?p=57776"},"modified":"2014-06-17T16:09:35","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T21:09:35","slug":"universal-design-more-than-just-curb-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2014\/06\/17\/universal-design-more-than-just-curb-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Design: More than Just Curb Cuts\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this post, Eric Mueller from the Center for Students with Disabilities has joined the LTC Instructional Resources blog as a guest author.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since 2002, students enrolling in at least one online class has increased 22% according to the Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability (2011). Due to this increase in online enrollment, it is imperative that faculty and staff understand the unique needs of all student learners, regardless of abilities.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the UW-W Learning Technology Center\u2019s 2014 Summer Institute, and I presented on Online Accessibility and Universal Design. During this presentation, I was able to demonstrate and promote the valuable components of Universal Design (UD) and Universal Design of Learning (UDL).<\/p>\n<p>Participants in the 2014 Summer Institute also experienced disability simulations, and I demonstrated specific assistive technology that students at UW-Whitewater are utilizing to make online content accessible (ZoomText and Kurzweil 3000) and provided tips in creating accessible documents for students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To view Eric&#8217;s presentation on Online Accessibility and Universal Design given at the 2014 Summer Institute, please watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I_C0ute9res?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or comments, please\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ltc@uww.edu\">contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this post, Eric Mueller from the Center for Students with Disabilities has joined the LTC Instructional Resources blog as a guest author. Since 2002, students enrolling in at least one online class has increased 22% according to the Journal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2014\/06\/17\/universal-design-more-than-just-curb-cuts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3141,14795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-instructors","category-training-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2U0PY-f1S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 17:12:03","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57794,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776\/revisions\/57794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}