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However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the US Department of Education and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. Project Officer, Rebecca Sheffield, Ph. D.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nNational Center on Accessible Educational Materials at CAST (2021) . Protocol for Curation of Accessible OER. Wakefield, MA: Author. Retrieved from (replace with URL) .  \nTable of Contents  \nDefining Accessible Educational Resources ................................................................... 2  \nEquity & OER: The Role of Accessibility ......................................................................... 2  \nPurpose & Use of the Protocol ........................................................................................ 3  \nStyles and Document Structure ....................................................................................... 4  \nLinks and Navigation ..................................................................................................... 11  \nImage Description with Alt Text ..................................................................................... 15  \nDesign with Color and Typography ............................................................................... 21  \nEvaluation with an Accessibility Checker ...................................................................... 24  \nVideo Accessibility......................................................................................................... 30  \nAcknowledgments ......................................................................................................... 32  \nDefining Accessible Educational Resources  \nIn the 2017 National Education Technology Plan, the U.S. Department of Education  \ndefines open educational resources (OER) as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with others. OER can include complete online courses, textbooks, documents, images, videos, and assessment items. This protocol itself is an example of an OER. It is licensed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0) . This license allows anyone to freely share and adapt the protocol as long as there is proper attribution to the authors and any new versions include the same license as the original.  \nEquity & OER: The Role of Accessibility  \nThe availability of high-quality OER plays an important role in addressing equity issues in education. For its full potential to be realized for every learner, however, OER must  \nbe more than openly licensed at a reasonable cost. They must also be usable across the variability that learners bring to any learning environment. For this to be the case, OER must be designed according to accessibility best practices that ensure they will work with the assistive technologies many learners with disabilities use to access the curriculum. As an added benefit, accessible OER are also often mobile-friendly, which isan important consideration for increasing participation through remote and distance learning. The AEM Center article Open Educational Resources: Ensuring Inclusive Learning in Uncertain Times explores the relationship between OER, accessibility, and equity in more detail.  \nPurpose & Use of the Protocol  \nDuring 2019 and 2020, the AEM Center facilitated an Accessibility Community of Practice (CoP) with members of the \\#GoOpen Network. The goal of the CoP was to seek creative solutions to OER accessibility challenges. 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