[Athen] Blackboard accessibility info

[Heidi Scher]

Thanks for letting me know, Hadi!

Too bad he's not interested in the power of working collaboratively to
resolve such issues!

Take care,

Heidi

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Hadi Rangin <hadi at uiuc.edu> wrote:


> Hi Heidi,

>

> I tried to reach Alberto via one of our colleagues at UIC and invited him

> to

> work with our blackboard/WebCT Accessibility Interest Group

> (http://cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/blackboard) which some of our AThenpro

> colleagues are part of it. He wrote to my colleague at UIC and it seems he

> is very frustrated with the accessibility of BB and apparently not

> interested to work collaboratively on identifying and resolving

> accessibility issues he is facing with BB product.

>

> Thanks,

> Hadi

>

> ----- Original Message -----

> From: "Heidi Scher" <hascherdss at gmail.com>

> To: "Access Technologists in Higher Education Network" <athen at athenpro.org

> >

> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:22 PM

> Subject: [Athen] Blackboard accessibility info

>

>

> > Hi all,

> >

> > I just saw the below question posted to the DSSHE listserv.  Is there

> > someone from ATHEN who might contact this individual - someone who is

> > working on the SIG related to Blackboard/WebCT?

> >

> > Heidi

> >

> >

> > Date:    Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:54:08 -0700

> > From:    Alberto Guzman <aguzma1 at UIC.EDU>

> > Subject: Sending comments to the fellows of Blackboard

> >

> > DSSHE listers:

> >

> > good morning!  A group within the Disability and Human Development =

> > Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago, would like to =

> > compile a list of accessibility related issues with the Blackboard =

> > system,  in order to initiate a dialogue with this company. I will =

> > greatly appreciate if you can share with me what are your access =

> > difficulties with Blackboard, either from a user or manager's =

> > perspective.  You can reply privately or to the list.  I will be =

> > compiling your comments until Tuesday, Feb. 19th., shortly after I will

> =

> > send a summary to the list.

> >

> > Thanks for your assistance and have a great day!

> >

> > Alberto Guzman=20

> > Disability and Human Development

> > 1640 W. Roosevelt  Road

> > Chicago, IL 60608

> > aguzma1 at uic.edu =20

> >

>

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