Accessibility for Assessments

CEC 2017 Convention & Expo

Below is a Pearson presentation from the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 2017 Convention & Expo presented by Pearson’s Accessibility Team for Assessments. If you have any questions about any of these presentations, please email us.

Session

Delivering Accessible Online Math Assessments for Students with Visual Impairments

This session presents recent advances in software for braille math that help close the gap in building equitable assessment systems, as demonstrated by research studies with visually impaired students. We discuss the impact of braille standards on the cost of delivering online math assessments, and demonstrate an accessible equation editor that supports real-time, two-way translations between braille math notation and the printed math notation used by sighted students.