Reading: AT Chapters 7 and 8: Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning

My Response to the Reading:

These chapters were about accessibility and began with a discussion of Universal Design. Reading them reminded me of a great chart about UDL I had seen once, and led me to want to learn more about Universal Design in general and Universal Design of Digital Tools in particular. This led me to do a web search, and here are the most interesting of the sites I found:

http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies/Universal/
This site had was adapted from the publication Universal Design of Instruction: Definition, Principles, Guidelines, and Examples and it offers exactly that: definitions, principles, guidelines, and example of  Universal Design in Instruction

Whereas this site:
http://www.slideshare.net/hkramer99/integrating-universal-design-best-practices-accessibility-atia-2013
Was a slideshow about the Web Standards Project (WASP) which was concerned with integrating the ideas of Universal Design and Accessibility into website design.

Then I thought to search images, and found the chart I was looking for at this site:
http://usailc.org/blog/2011/10/universal-design/

CAST (2011). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.0. Wakefield, MA: Author.

Which led me to these sites:
The National Center for Unversal Design in Learning
http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/whatisudl

The Center for Applied Special Technology
http://www.cast.org/udl/index.html

These last two sites are amazing and really tell you eveything you could ever want to know about UDL.