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Assistive technologies and online learning
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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by John T.E. Richardson, Chetz Colwell and Tim Coughlan.

We would like to acknowledge the JISC TechDis project, which created useful resources on assistive technologies that are drawn upon here.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

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Video

TechDis Essentials video used with permission from Jisc TechDis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdfFvsetdKg.

Adapted extract from: JISC Techdis (undated) Assistive Technology ‘Familiarity Audit’ [online].

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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