Section Six - 508, Alternate Media, Distance Education & Assistive Technologies

This section links to the High Tech Center Training Unit and The Alternate Media Production Center, as well as links to government sites that provide relevant information. Notice that subsections of resources are also provided to offer additional information on specified subject areas. Within each area are resource guides, checklists, handbooks, policies and links to websites.

Sub-Sections

Section 508 and Web Accessibility
Alternate Media
Distance Education
Captioning
Assistive Technologies

Links

HTCTU

The High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges is a state of the art training and support facility for community college faculty and staff wishing to acquire or improve teaching skills, methodologies, and pedagogy in Assistive Computer Technology, Alternate Media and Web Accessibility. The HTCTU supports High Tech Center programs at one-hundred and fourteen community colleges and satellite centers. More than ten thousand students with disabilities are enrolled in High Tech Center programs state-wide.

Divisions:

  • Alternate Media
  • Assistive Computer Technology
  • Web Accessibility
Trace Center Resources & Tools

Projects & programs, products, tools, resources & publications from the Trace Center University Of Wisconsin-Madison.

Alternate Text Production Center

The ATPC is the first publicly funded, system-wide resource dedicated to serving the alternate media needs of the largest post-secondary educational system in the world. There are 112 community colleges in California and each of them has equal access to the media services provided by the ATPC. From existing print or electronic documents, the ATPC creates alternate media products for use by California Community College students with print-related disabilities. These products consist of:Electronic Text files Electronic Braille files Braille books and documents Tactile Graphics.