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Bridging the Digital Accessibility Skills Gap

Teach Access PROJECT
Bridging the Digital Accessibility Skills Gap by Teach Access

credits

Title
  • Bridging the Digital Accessibility Skills Gap
Entrant
  • Teach Access

About This Project

Summary

Teach Access strategically partners with students, educators, industry, government, and advocacy organizations. It bridges the accessibility skills gap by providing free programs and open educational resources that teach fundamental skills and concepts about disability and digital accessibility.

Goals & Objectives

Educate 1 million students by 2030; Create a world where technology is born accessible; Increase open educational resource (OER) curriculum repository resources; Launch self-paced online courses for faculty to learn how to teach about digital accessibility; Launch a Faculty Fellowship program

Results & Impact

Surpassed 500,000 by December 2023. Increased resources in our OER curriculum repository by 30% in 2023. Released 12 online self-paced courses for faculty, with more in development to be released in 2024. 95% of faculty for the 2024 Faculty Fellows Cohort came from Minority Serving Institutions

the team

Kate Sonka
  • Executive Director
  • Teach Access
Leslie Johnson
  • Program & Operations Manager
  • Teach Access
Mindy Kolin
  • Director of Development & Industry Partnerships
  • Teach Access
Rolando Méndez
  • Director of Education
  • Teach Access