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California
California Community Colleges distance education: course design and all course materials must be accessible to every student
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 5, sections 55200 and 55206
In force.
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- If you are a community college district, make sure that the course design and all course materials of any course or portion of a course provided through distance education are accessible to every student, including students with disabilities (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 5, section 55206(b)).
- Read accessible as section 55200 defines it: a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use (section 55200).
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What this law does
Title 5, section 55206 applies where any portion of the instruction in a new or existing community college course is to be provided through distance education. Section 55206(b) provides that the course design and all course materials must be accessible to every student, including students with disabilities.
Section 55200 defines accessible to mean that a person with a disability is afforded the opportunity to acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services as a person without a disability in an equally effective and equally integrated manner, with substantially equivalent ease of use.
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