Accessibility and Universal Design Flashcards
What are the 7 Principles of Universal Design?
Equitable Use Flexibility in Use Simple and Intuitive Use Perceptible Information Tolerance for Error Low Physical Effort Size and Space for Approach and Use
Which principle? The design is useful and marketable to people with diverse abilities.
Equitable Use
Which principle? The design accommodates a wide range of individual preferences and abilities.
Flexibility in Use
Use of the design is easy to understand, regardless of the user’s experience, knowledge, language skills, or current concentration level.
Simple and Intuitive Use
The design communicates necessary information effectively to the user, regardless of ambient conditions or the user’s sensory abilities.
Perceptible Information
The design minimizes hazards and the adverse consequences of accidental or unintended actions.
Tolerance for Error
The design can be used efficiently and comfortably and with a minimum of fatigue.
Low Physical Effort
Appropriate size and space is provided for approach, reach, manipulation, and use regardless of user’s body size, posture, or mobility.
Size and Space for Approach and Use
True or False: Practices for Universal Design for Learning involve incorporating flexibility into the design of educational content.
True
True or False: Universal Design for Learning is based on scientific research.
True
Which of the three brain networks supports planning, connecting information, and exhibiting skills?
A. Recognition network
B. Strategic network
C. Affective network
B. Strategic network
Affective brain networks:
A. Enable us to gather information and collect facts.
B. Enable us to be engaged in the information we learn.
C. Allow us to organize information and demonstrate acquired skills.
D. None of the these.
B. Enable us to be engaged in the information we learn.
True or False: Multiple Means of Representation emphasizes implementing various ways of sparking interest in the learning process.
False
For each reading assignment in her classroom, Mrs. Smith requires her students to complete a handout. She uses these handouts to measure her students’ understanding of the reading assignments. While some of her students do well on these handouts, she finds that quite a few students repeatedly struggle to obtain good grades on them. Which principle of UDL might help Mrs. Smith see that most, if not all, of her students may actually understand their reading assignments?
A. Multiple Means of Representation
B. Multiple Means of Action and Expression
C. Multiple Means of Engagement
B. Multiple Means of Action and Expression
Ensuring that students have the background knowledge for learning new information is a guideline for which principle of UDL?
A. Multiple Means of Representation
B. Multiple Means of Action and Expression
C. Multiple Means of Engagement
A. Multiple Means of Representation
