From SKelmer at stlcc.edu Thu Sep 2 05:58:23 2010 From: SKelmer at stlcc.edu (Kelmer, Susan M.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Plato Online Learning Message-ID: I have my first blind student trying to use Plato for a reading class. We knew there were issues...we just didn't know how deep they truly were. Is anyone having any success using Plato with Jaws? Any tips or tricks to share? Or any ways you worked around the use of Plato? Susan Kelmer Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist St. Louis Community College @ Meramec 314-984-7951 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 11:00:45 2010 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] video magnifier table Message-ID: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD26825320419AFFAB5@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Hi all, I have an older video magnifier (CCTV) that needs a little attention. The table doesn't slide very smoothly any more. What would you all recommend to put the zip and slip back in this old dog? I don't want to use something that will possibly leave greasy spots for the students to get their hands or clothes in. Thanks for any suggestions. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danc at washington.edu Fri Sep 3 11:34:06 2010 From: danc at washington.edu (Dan Comden) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] video magnifier table In-Reply-To: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD26825320419AFFAB5@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> References: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD26825320419AFFAB5@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: Hi Robert, I work on aged cars and sometimes need to make things move that no longer want to. Here's what I'd do. Take the table outside or to some area that won't be damaged by drips and damp. Try and remove the sliding table from the magnifier so you can get to the underside. If that isn't easy, remove as much of the unit's electronics as possible before continuing. Use silicon spray and a scotchbrite sponge to clean. If there's rust, you'll want to use WD40 sparingly. Apply light coating of silicon spray lubricant to moving parts. It's likely the silicon won't last long, but if it works for a while and then returns to sticking, you can try something heavier like WD40. If that doesn't last, I would use (again, sparingly) spray lithium grease applied with a spray tube. It's stickier than oils and shouldn't spread. Just wipe up the excess with a paper towel. At this point you've earned the traditional cold beverage. Silicon spray, WD40 and lithium grease can all be acquired at auto parts stores. It's possible that the sliding mechanism has become misaligned or bent over time. Look for missing fasteners and replace. If it's damaged, it may be that it's not repairable and needs a complete replacement. -*- Dan Comden danc@washington.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Robert Beach wrote: > I have an older video magnifier (CCTV) that needs a little attention. > The table doesn?t slide very smoothly any more.? What would you all > recommend to put the zip and slip back in this old dog?? I don?t want > to use something that will possibly leave greasy spots for the students > to get their hands or clothes in. From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 11:44:17 2010 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] video magnifier table In-Reply-To: References: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD26825320419AFFAB5@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD26825320419AFFB17@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Thanks. This is along the lines I was expecting, I just didn't know what products to try for best results. Have a great 3-day weekend! Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Dan Comden Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 1:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] video magnifier table Hi Robert, I work on aged cars and sometimes need to make things move that no longer want to. Here's what I'd do. Take the table outside or to some area that won't be damaged by drips and damp. Try and remove the sliding table from the magnifier so you can get to the underside. If that isn't easy, remove as much of the unit's electronics as possible before continuing. Use silicon spray and a scotchbrite sponge to clean. If there's rust, you'll want to use WD40 sparingly. Apply light coating of silicon spray lubricant to moving parts. It's likely the silicon won't last long, but if it works for a while and then returns to sticking, you can try something heavier like WD40. If that doesn't last, I would use (again, sparingly) spray lithium grease applied with a spray tube. It's stickier than oils and shouldn't spread. Just wipe up the excess with a paper towel. At this point you've earned the traditional cold beverage. Silicon spray, WD40 and lithium grease can all be acquired at auto parts stores. It's possible that the sliding mechanism has become misaligned or bent over time. Look for missing fasteners and replace. If it's damaged, it may be that it's not repairable and needs a complete replacement. -*- Dan Comden danc@washington.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Robert Beach wrote: > I have an older video magnifier (CCTV) that needs a little attention. > The table doesn't slide very smoothly any more.? What would you all > recommend to put the zip and slip back in this old dog?? I don't want > to use something that will possibly leave greasy spots for the > students to get their hands or clothes in. From ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net Sun Sep 5 16:17:35 2010 From: ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net (Shelley Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Finally: RFB&D audiobooks on Macs Message-ID: <42B63212-AE1E-4EA8-A31E-309C387BAE7C@techpotential.net> This is on RFB&D's own website, so I guess that means it's officially "public knowledge" now. Sometime this month (September), Mac users will finally be able to download and use RFB&D books under the current operating system (Mac OS 10.6): From Steph's Blog, posted 8/24/10: One last tip I want to share: next month, RFB&D will release software enabling our books to be played on a Mac computer. Stay tuned for details. http://www.rfbd.org/Blog/Access-and-Achievement/144/search__mac/vobId__2120/ - also - http://www.rfbd.org/Audiobook-Catalog/Back-to-School-Parent-Center/399/ Can RFB&D books on iOS devices be far behind? (I hope not!) - Shelley _____________________________ Shelley Haven ATP, RET Assistive Technology Consultant www.TechPotential.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Tue Sep 7 10:42:02 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] News of 64-bit Tiger drivers? Message-ID: <4C86796A.2080209@stanford.edu> Hi all, Has anyone heard any rumors or discussion from View Plus regarding 64-bit drivers? I know there is the statement on their website that says "64-bit drivers coming soon...", but does anyone have additional information? I am *really* trying to be patient, but it's not like 64-bit versions of Windows Vista or Windows 7 were just released; they have been out for many (many) months now. The only response I have received from the company is that they are aware of this issue. Take care, sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From john.gardner at orst.edu Wed Sep 8 09:45:13 2010 From: john.gardner at orst.edu (John Gardner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] News of 64-bit Tiger drivers? In-Reply-To: <4C86796A.2080209@stanford.edu> References: <4C86796A.2080209@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <003101cb4f75$37499c10$a5dcd430$@gardner@orst.edu> Hi sean. On behalf of ViewPlus, I apologize that these drivers are so much overdue. The blame is ours of course, but Microsoft is not exactly blameless either. The 64 bit OS are, from point of view of drivers and some other hardware, totally different from 32 bit OS. So ViewPlus and other AT companies making various hardware drivers have had to invest a great deal more resources than I personally find reasonable. The good news is that the 64 bit Elite/Premier drivers have just been released, and all others are in final testing (I hope). With luck they will be rleased next week. In the meantime, ViewPlus support will send you solid beta drivers if you request them. John Gardner -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:42 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] News of 64-bit Tiger drivers? Hi all, Has anyone heard any rumors or discussion from View Plus regarding 64-bit drivers? I know there is the statement on their website that says "64-bit drivers coming soon...", but does anyone have additional information? I am *really* trying to be patient, but it's not like 64-bit versions of Windows Vista or Windows 7 were just released; they have been out for many (many) months now. The only response I have received from the company is that they are aware of this issue. Take care, sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From skeegan at stanford.edu Wed Sep 8 13:13:05 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] iPhone/iPad DAISY players? Message-ID: <4C87EE51.6010208@stanford.edu> Hello all, I was doing a bit of searching last evening in iTunes and on the Web looking for any information on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch media players that support DAISY. Unfortunately, there seemed to be little to no information online. I know there are a few people on this list who have been involved in such production (and I am not looking to start a "my app is better than yours" debate), and I have also spoken with a few entities that are either "looking into" or are "considering" such an app. That being said, has anyone found any apps in iTunes that support DAISY playback? Thanks for any feedback, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net Wed Sep 8 16:02:27 2010 From: ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net (Shelley Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] iPhone/iPad DAISY players? In-Reply-To: <4C87EE51.6010208@stanford.edu> References: <4C87EE51.6010208@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <6A1FB83D-F1B7-449B-9C20-9CB60AABE7CF@techpotential.net> The only two I know of are DaisyWorm (Curtin University & ABWA) and Voice of DAISY (VOD). Each has its limitations. And we'll leave the "my app can beat up your app" discussions offline. ;-) - Shelley _____________________________ Shelley Haven ATP, RET Assistive Technology Consultant www.TechPotential.net On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:13 PM, Sean J Keegan wrote: > Hello all, > > I was doing a bit of searching last evening in iTunes and on the Web looking for any information on iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch media players that support DAISY. Unfortunately, there seemed to be little to no information online. > > I know there are a few people on this list who have been involved in such production (and I am not looking to start a "my app is better than yours" debate), and I have also spoken with a few entities that are either "looking into" or are "considering" such an app. > > That being said, has anyone found any apps in iTunes that support DAISY playback? > > Thanks for any feedback, > Sean > > > -- > Sean Keegan, M.S. > Associate Director, Assistive Technology > Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University > http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > From skeegan at stanford.edu Wed Sep 8 16:22:58 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs Message-ID: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Hello all, Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: - Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. - Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player. Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From gdietrich at htctu.net Wed Sep 8 16:20:30 2010 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs In-Reply-To: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> References: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <6720FD75548A457E866660459104E284@htctu.fhda.edu> I use a SanDisk MicroMate to put the memory card directly into a USB port--makes book transfer a breeze! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6043 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 4:23 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs Hello all, Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: - Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. - Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player. Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From jon.pielaet at mso.umt.edu Wed Sep 8 16:33:26 2010 From: jon.pielaet at mso.umt.edu (Pielaet, Jon) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs In-Reply-To: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> References: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <6D6D5D870B9D6243922DB0F261E70A00032A9232@MUMMAILVS2.gs.umt.edu> Hello everyone, "- Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else." Yes, the stream is a USB Mass Storage Device and will be recognized as flash memory in almost any operating system including Windows 7, Mac OSX, and Linux. "- Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player." Although I don't have experience connecting an external CD drive directly to the stream, I have copied AudioPlus CD books to the Stream from the CD drive of a PC with no trouble. Hope that helps, Jon Jon P. Pielaet Program Assistant for Instructional Materials Disability Services for Students Emma B. Lommasson 154 The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 www.umt.edu/dss/ 406-243-2243 Voice/Text 406-243-4461 Direct Line 406-243-5330 Fax -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 5:23 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs Hello all, Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: - Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. - Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player. Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From pepnetnortheast at rit.edu Thu Sep 2 12:32:53 2010 From: pepnetnortheast at rit.edu (pepnetnortheast@rit.edu) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Live Webcast: Cochlear Implants Message-ID: <8115A26B16062256A5kOwy314DD8@129.21.53.181> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: header.gif Type: image/gif Size: 25659 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Jon Pielet had a good response that got blocked by the filters, so I am forwarding on his behalf: ******** Yes, the stream is a USB Mass Storage Device and will be recognized as flash memory in almost any operating system including Windows 7, Mac OSX, and Linux. > Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect > a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the > transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here > is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device > (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about > a general external CD player. Although I don't have experience connecting an external CD drive directly to the stream, I have copied AudioPlus CD books to the Stream from the CD drive of a PC with no trouble. Hope that helps, Jon ******* -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From norm.coombs at gmail.com Wed Sep 8 19:54:05 2010 From: norm.coombs at gmail.com (Prof Norm Coombs) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs In-Reply-To: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> References: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <6.0.3.0.2.20100908195315.050dde98@pop.gmail.com> I have windows 7 and the stream. I move files from the computer to the stream by putting the sd card into my computer and, of course, no problem. Norm At 04:22 PM 9/8/2010, you wrote: >Hello all, > >Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. > >A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: > >- Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac >(or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. > >- Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the >Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the >Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device >(http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD >player. > > >Take care, >Sean > >-- >Sean Keegan, M.S. >Associate Director, Assistive Technology >Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University >http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae > >_______________________________________________ >Athen mailing list >Athen@athenpro.org >http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve Norman Coombs norm.coombs@gmail.com CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information phone (949) 855-4852 (NOTE pacific time zone) ****READ ABOUT THE DICK BANKS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: http://easi.cc/scholarship.htm From info at karlencommunications.com Thu Sep 9 03:30:34 2010 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs In-Reply-To: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> References: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <004401cb500a$09a1ba00$1ce52e00$@karlencommunications.com> I am using the Stream with Audible on a Win 7 machine with no problems. I can also just connect it and transfer files. Cheers, Karen -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: September-08-10 7:23 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs Hello all, Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: - Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. - Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player. Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From ron at altformatsolutions.com Thu Sep 9 04:52:21 2010 From: ron at altformatsolutions.com (Ron Stewart) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: Tools of Change for Publishing Message-ID: <041501cb5015$7647bfa0$62d73ee0$@com> Thought you all would be interested in this development from O?Reilly publishing _____ O'Reilly ebook bundles now include DAISY talking book format Posted: 08 Sep 2010 08:42 AM PDT More than 800 O'Reilly titles are now available in DAISY format. If you've already bought an oreilly.com ebook, you can find the DAISY files on your account page. 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Kenneth Elkind University of Massachusett Boston 100 Morrissey BlvdBoston, MA 02125 (617) 287-5243 Office (617) 287-5227 ACL Lab kenneth.elkind@umb.edu From dberkowitz at usf.edu Thu Sep 9 08:09:19 2010 From: dberkowitz at usf.edu (Berkowitz, Daniel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accommodations for a course that requires the use of SPSS In-Reply-To: <3EA5FBF402FB0E4EAEEAE0C6D21F1DC0026EA9B5@ebe1.umassb.net> References: <3EA5FBF402FB0E4EAEEAE0C6D21F1DC0026EA9B5@ebe1.umassb.net> Message-ID: <0BF0A43124C56041AF23409BE18B47CE0CA7108FE7@USFMAIL2.forest.usf.edu> Ken, We have been working on this for ZoomText and have found solutions. You need to install the JAVA Access Bridge so that the two will work together. Rice University has very good instructions: https://docs.rice.edu/confluence/display/ITTUT/Screen+reading+software+(JAWS)+for+SPSS+set+up+instructions Though the version in the Rice instructions is 16, this should work just as well with version 18. Here is information on installing the bridge and accessibility at the Oracle website: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-136191.html Hope this helps --- Dann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Berkowitz Associate Director, Students with Disabilities Services University of South Florida Office: 813-974-4309 Direct:? 813-974-5702 eMail: dberkowitz@usf.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Kenneth Elkind Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:03 AM To: athen@athenpro.org Subject: [Athen] Accommodations for a course that requires the use of SPSS We have two clients they're taking classes using SPSS version 18. Both are Jaws users. What strategies have you developed for accommodations using a product that is not compatible with a screen reader. Any suggestions would be welcome. Has anybody used R instead of SPSS? Cheers! Kenneth Elkind University of Massachusett Boston 100 Morrissey BlvdBoston, MA 02125 (617) 287-5243 Office (617) 287-5227 ACL Lab kenneth.elkind@umb.edu _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From skeegan at stanford.edu Thu Sep 9 10:54:40 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] News of 64-bit Tiger drivers? In-Reply-To: <003101cb4f75$37499c10$a5dcd430$@gardner@orst.edu> References: <4C86796A.2080209@stanford.edu> <003101cb4f75$37499c10$a5dcd430$@gardner@orst.edu> Message-ID: <4C891F60.3090303@stanford.edu> Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Very good to hear you are in final testing and the drivers are nearing completion. I am sure it has not been easy with the transition to the 64-bit environment. Thank again for the update. Take care, sean On 9/8/10 9:45 AM, John Gardner wrote: > Hi sean. On behalf of ViewPlus, I apologize that these drivers are so much > overdue. The blame is ours of course, but Microsoft is not exactly > blameless either. The 64 bit OS are, from point of view of drivers and some > other hardware, totally different from 32 bit OS. So ViewPlus and other AT > companies making various hardware drivers have had to invest a great deal > more resources than I personally find reasonable. > > The good news is that the 64 bit Elite/Premier drivers have just been > released, and all others are in final testing (I hope). With luck they will > be rleased next week. In the meantime, ViewPlus support will send you solid > beta drivers if you request them. > > John Gardner > -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From Dave.M.Thomas at studentlife.du.edu Thu Sep 9 12:25:21 2010 From: Dave.M.Thomas at studentlife.du.edu (Dave M. Thomas) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] K3000 and Windows 7 Message-ID: Good afternoon! I have Kurzweil 3000, version 10 and was just forced to upgrade to Windows 7. Must I purchase an upgrade of Kurzweil 3000? Thanks! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From KCarini at matcmadison.edu Thu Sep 9 12:45:12 2010 From: KCarini at matcmadison.edu (Kevin M Carini) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] K3000 and Windows 7 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I believe you need version 11 or higher to work with Windows 7. Kevin M. Carini, M.S., C.R.C. Disability Resource Specialist - Assistive Technology Madison Area Technical College Office: 608-243-4612 Fax: 608-246-6691 kcarini@matcmadison.edu www.matcmadison.edu Work Days: Monday - Thursday Off Days: Friday - Sunday From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Dave M. Thomas Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 2:25 PM To: DSSHE-L@LISTSERV.buffalo.edu Cc: athen@athenpro.org Subject: [Athen] K3000 and Windows 7 Good afternoon! I have Kurzweil 3000, version 10 and was just forced to upgrade to Windows 7. Must I purchase an upgrade of Kurzweil 3000? Thanks! Dave -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dabrus at purdue.edu Fri Sep 10 11:53:34 2010 From: dabrus at purdue.edu (Brusnighan, Dean A.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link Message-ID: A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to get past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any in-browser tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search to search button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip to content link. Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already done that. Still the same result. Any suggestions? Dean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dean Brusnighan Assistive Technology Specialist Purdue University, Young Hall 155 S. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 Phone: 765-494-9082 dabrus@purdue.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zpaz at ldrfa.org Mon Sep 13 10:49:47 2010 From: zpaz at ldrfa.org (Zahavit Paz) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launches "next month" In-Reply-To: <6621BECD-99FB-41D5-84B6-00EDA1817FD3@techpotential.net> References: <6621BECD-99FB-41D5-84B6-00EDA1817FD3@techpotential.net> Message-ID: The page cannot be found to the link you posted below On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Shelley Haven < ShelleyHaven@techpotential.net> wrote: > This press release from Nuance says that their text-to-speech technology > will be part of the Blio eReader "when it launches next month". So at least > we're now getting indications from other companies who have a stake in this. > (I know, I know...you'll believe it when you see it.) > > http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2010/201008223_KNFB_Blio.asp > > - Shelley > > _____________________________ > Shelley Haven ATP, RET > Assistive Technology Consultant > www.TechPotential.net > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > -- Love&Light LD Resources Foundation Zahavit Paz Founder, Chairperson 31 East 32nd Street Suite 607 New York, NY 10016 646.701.0000 Office 917.405.4837 Cell 212.444.1061 Fax Zpaz@ldrfa.org www.ldrfa.org visit our blog: http://ldrfa.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ldrfa Online donation: http://www.ldrfa.org/index.php?pID=31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device ( > http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD > player. > > > Take care, > Sean > > -- > Sean Keegan, M.S. > Associate Director, Assistive Technology > Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University > http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > -- Love&Light LD Resources Foundation Zahavit Paz Founder, Chairperson 31 East 32nd Street Suite 607 New York, NY 10016 646.701.0000 Office 917.405.4837 Cell 212.444.1061 Fax Zpaz@ldrfa.org www.ldrfa.org visit our blog: http://ldrfa.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ldrfa Online donation: http://www.ldrfa.org/index.php?pID=31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Unfortunately, there seemed to be little to no information > online. > > I know there are a few people on this list who have been involved in such > production (and I am not looking to start a "my app is better than yours" > debate), and I have also spoken with a few entities that are either "looking > into" or are "considering" such an app. > > That being said, has anyone found any apps in iTunes that support DAISY > playback? > > Thanks for any feedback, > Sean > > > -- > Sean Keegan, M.S. > Associate Director, Assistive Technology > Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University > http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > -- Love&Light LD Resources Foundation Zahavit Paz Founder, Chairperson 31 East 32nd Street Suite 607 New York, NY 10016 646.701.0000 Office 917.405.4837 Cell 212.444.1061 Fax Zpaz@ldrfa.org www.ldrfa.org visit our blog: http://ldrfa.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ldrfa Online donation: http://www.ldrfa.org/index.php?pID=31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at karlencommunications.com Mon Sep 13 11:44:10 2010 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs In-Reply-To: References: <4C881AD2.9030908@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <001801cb5373$a7e97330$f7bc5990$@karlencommunications.com> You have to use the HumanWare USB CD player. You cannot use an off the shelf external USB CD drive. Cheers, Karen From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Zahavit Paz Sent: September-13-10 1:54 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Victor Stream, Macs, and CDs I tried using a Mac answer is negative if you are using a newer Mac with intel chip you can use it as a PC On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Sean J Keegan wrote: Hello all, Well, I am just full of it today....(ahem)...questions, that is. A few questions about the Victor Reader Stream: - Does anyone have experience connecting a Victor Reader Stream to a Mac (or Windows 7)? On several sites, it talks about Windows XP, but nothing else. - Has anyone used the USB CD attachment to connect a CD drive to the Stream? This would allow for the transfer of AudioPlus CD books to the Stream. Here is the URL for the "authorized" version of the device (http://tinyurl.com/24v75l8), but I am curious about a general external CD player. Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org -- Love&Light LD Resources Foundation Zahavit Paz Founder, Chairperson 31 East 32nd Street Suite 607 New York, NY 10016 646.701.0000 Office 917.405.4837 Cell 212.444.1061 Fax Zpaz@ldrfa.org www.ldrfa.org visit our blog: http://ldrfa.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/ldrfa Online donation: http://www.ldrfa.org/index.php?pID=31 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blrichwine at gmail.com Mon Sep 13 13:26:27 2010 From: blrichwine at gmail.com (Brian Richwine) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: How is the link coded? I'm wondering about the technique used to hide the link. If CSS is being used, and a "display:none" or "visibility:hidden" rule is being applied, then the link will be treated as if it does not exist. This is how we usually recommend coding a skip navigation link in the HTML. We place it immediately after the body element to users don't have to hunt for it: > > > > >
> And this is how we code the CSS to go along with it. This method allows the link to become visible when it receives focus. This enables the skip navigation link to be visible to all keyboard only users (not just screen-reader users!): > /* Hide skip to content link */ > > #skipnav a, #skipnav a:hover, #skipnav a:visited { > > position: absolute; > > left:-9999px; > > top:auto; > > width:1px; > > height:1px; > > overflow:hidden; > > } > > > > /* Make skip to content link visible when focused */ > > #skipnav a:active, #skipnav a:focus { > > position:static; > > color:#000000; > > width:auto; > > height:auto; > > outline: thin dotted black; > > } > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brusnighan, Dean A. wrote: > A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to get > past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the > Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any in-browser > tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search to search > button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip to content > link. > > > > Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already > done that. Still the same result. > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Dean > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dean Brusnighan > > Assistive Technology Specialist > > Purdue University, Young Hall > > 155 S. Grant Street > > West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 > > Phone: 765-494-9082 > > dabrus@purdue.edu > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Mon Sep 13 17:23:58 2010 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launches "next month" In-Reply-To: References: <6621BECD-99FB-41D5-84B6-00EDA1817FD3@techpotential.net> Message-ID: Try this: http://www.nuance.com/company/news-room/press-releases/ND_007567 Best regards, ken --- Ken Petri Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center 102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 Office: 614.292.1760 Mobile: 614.218.1499 Fax: 614.292.4190 Email: petri.1@osu.edu On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Zahavit Paz wrote: > The page cannot be found > to the link you posted below > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Shelley Haven < > ShelleyHaven@techpotential.net> wrote: > >> This press release from Nuance says that their text-to-speech technology >> will be part of the Blio eReader "when it launches next month". So at least >> we're now getting indications from other companies who have a stake in this. >> (I know, I know...you'll believe it when you see it.) >> >> http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2010/201008223_KNFB_Blio.asp >> >> - Shelley >> >> _____________________________ >> Shelley Haven ATP, RET >> Assistive Technology Consultant >> www.TechPotential.net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Athen mailing list >> Athen@athenpro.org >> http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org >> > > > > -- > Love&Light > LD Resources Foundation > Zahavit Paz > Founder, Chairperson > 31 East 32nd Street Suite 607 > New York, NY 10016 > 646.701.0000 Office > 917.405.4837 Cell > 212.444.1061 Fax > Zpaz@ldrfa.org > www.ldrfa.org > > visit our blog: > http://ldrfa.blogspot.com > http://twitter.com/ldrfa > Online donation: > http://www.ldrfa.org/index.php?pID=31 > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Tue Sep 14 03:29:58 2010 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Brian, Has the developer enabled tabbed browsing in Safari. It is not turned on by default.... Best regards, ken --- Ken Petri Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center 102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 Office: 614.292.1760 Mobile: 614.218.1499 Fax: 614.292.4190 Email: petri.1@osu.edu On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Brian Richwine wrote: > How is the link coded? I'm wondering about the technique used to hide the > link. If CSS is being used, and a "display:none" or "visibility:hidden" rule > is being applied, then the link will be treated as if it does not exist. > > This is how we usually recommend coding a skip navigation link in the HTML. > We place it immediately after the body element to users don't have to hunt > for it: > >> >> >> >> >>
>> > > And this is how we code the CSS to go along with it. This method allows the > link to become visible when it receives focus. This enables the skip > navigation link to be visible to all keyboard only users (not just > screen-reader users!): > >> /* Hide skip to content link */ >> >> #skipnav a, #skipnav a:hover, #skipnav a:visited { >> >> position: absolute; >> >> left:-9999px; >> >> top:auto; >> >> width:1px; >> >> height:1px; >> >> overflow:hidden; >> >> } >> >> >> >> /* Make skip to content link visible when focused */ >> >> #skipnav a:active, #skipnav a:focus { >> >> position:static; >> >> color:#000000; >> >> width:auto; >> >> height:auto; >> >> outline: thin dotted black; >> >> } >> > > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brusnighan, Dean A. wrote: > >> A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to get >> past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the >> Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any >> in-browser tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search >> to search button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip >> to content link. >> >> >> >> Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already >> done that. Still the same result. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> Dean >> >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Dean Brusnighan >> >> Assistive Technology Specialist >> >> Purdue University, Young Hall >> >> 155 S. Grant Street >> >> West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 >> >> Phone: 765-494-9082 >> >> dabrus@purdue.edu >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Athen mailing list >> Athen@athenpro.org >> http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Tue Sep 14 03:33:40 2010 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To clarify: To enable the ability of Safari to move between items other than form fields via the tab key, you have to Preferences > Advanced tab > check "Press Tab to highlight each item on a web page." Yes, silly but true, you have to turn on this behavior (at least up through Safari 4, it may be on by default in 5 but I'd bet the preference for not having it on is kept on any upgrade....) Best regards, ken --- Ken Petri Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center 102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 Office: 614.292.1760 Mobile: 614.218.1499 Fax: 614.292.4190 Email: petri.1@osu.edu On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Ken Petri wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Has the developer enabled tabbed browsing in Safari. It is not turned on by > default.... > > Best regards, > ken > --- > Ken Petri > Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center > 102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue > Columbus, Ohio 43210 > Office: 614.292.1760 > Mobile: 614.218.1499 > Fax: 614.292.4190 > Email: petri.1@osu.edu > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Brian Richwine wrote: > >> How is the link coded? I'm wondering about the technique used to hide the >> link. If CSS is being used, and a "display:none" or "visibility:hidden" rule >> is being applied, then the link will be treated as if it does not exist. >> >> This is how we usually recommend coding a skip navigation link in the >> HTML. We place it immediately after the body element to users don't have to >> hunt for it: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>
>>> >> >> And this is how we code the CSS to go along with it. This method allows >> the link to become visible when it receives focus. This enables the skip >> navigation link to be visible to all keyboard only users (not just >> screen-reader users!): >> >>> /* Hide skip to content link */ >>> >>> #skipnav a, #skipnav a:hover, #skipnav a:visited { >>> >>> position: absolute; >>> >>> left:-9999px; >>> >>> top:auto; >>> >>> width:1px; >>> >>> height:1px; >>> >>> overflow:hidden; >>> >>> } >>> >>> >>> >>> /* Make skip to content link visible when focused */ >>> >>> #skipnav a:active, #skipnav a:focus { >>> >>> position:static; >>> >>> color:#000000; >>> >>> width:auto; >>> >>> height:auto; >>> >>> outline: thin dotted black; >>> >>> } >>> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brusnighan, Dean A. wrote: >> >>> A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to >>> get past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the >>> Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any >>> in-browser tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search >>> to search button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip >>> to content link. >>> >>> >>> >>> Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already >>> done that. Still the same result. >>> >>> >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> >>> >>> Dean >>> >>> >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> Dean Brusnighan >>> >>> Assistive Technology Specialist >>> >>> Purdue University, Young Hall >>> >>> 155 S. Grant Street >>> >>> West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 >>> >>> Phone: 765-494-9082 >>> >>> dabrus@purdue.edu >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Athen mailing list >>> Athen@athenpro.org >>> http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Athen mailing list >> Athen@athenpro.org >> http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Tue Sep 14 08:39:41 2010 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Something to be on the look out for Message-ID: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD2682532041AE961BE@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> This sounds interesting. I hope it comes to completion. Introducing the Wizard The Wizard is a braille Personal Digital Assistant, PDA, designed specifically for blind people. Most of us use PDA's in our personal lives and know them as smart phones, iPad's, laptop computers, and even desktop computers. The Wizard is a similar device that is tailored for blind people. Instead of a screen, the Wizard features a 20-character braille display with synthetic speech output and a standard braille keyboard for data entry. Packaged to keep it small and portable, the Wizard is about half the size of a sheet of paper and less than one inch thick, so users can take it everywhere they would take a cell phone. Why Create Another Braille PDA for Blind People? Braille PDA's for the blind are not a new concept. The technology has been available for almost three decades, but since blindness is a low incidence disability in the U.S,. the size of this market does not encourage the same innovation that drives mainstream technology. As a result, current braille PDA's are expensive-in the $5,000-10,000 range- and often lack the same features as sighted people have come to expect in a PDA. What makes the Wizard different is that it is being produced by a Boston-based non-profit, National Braille Press, that is dedicated to literacy for blind people through braille. NBP is committed to creating a braille PDA that is affordable, with a wide range of features, and uses Android as an open source platform to encourage innovation. Wizard Features and Functions a.. 8 dot braille keyboard with an imbedded cursor pad. b.. 20 cell, 8 dot braille display with cursor routing and forward and back keys. c.. Android Operating system found in many smartphones. d.. 32GB of internal storage, users can plug SD cards into the back of the Wizard to create data backups or to load data from other sources. e.. Bluetooth wireless connectivity for headsets and other hands free devices. f.. WiFi connectivity to access local networks or other WiFi hotspots. g.. Two USB (Universal Serial Bus) ports for users to connect to other computer devices. h.. Accelerometer - the same chip that is used in games is also used to detect the orientation of the Wizard and allows it to adjust when it is tapped or rotated. i.. Speech input and output for users who want to listen instead of read braille, the Wizard has synthetic speech output. It also has speech input so users can perform voice searches, dial by voice, and create voice short cuts. j.. Cellular connection for data and voice, which can be used as a cell phone and smart phone for email, web browsing, and smart applications. k.. Built-in speakers and microphone for users with a cell phone carrier contract to make and receive phone calls. l.. Headphone/headset jack, a standard jack where users can plug in their favorite headphones. m.. GPS receiver to identify locations, and with the help of smart applications, to provide navigation information. Android-based navigation applications for blind users are currently being created by other developers. n.. Compass to help users navigate. o.. Built-in music player. Users can load a music library on the Wizard and listen via speakers or headset. p.. 5Mp camera, for photography and to identify items or surroundings in the user's environment. Applications are available that can photograph and read a printed page. q.. Video output connector: for users who need a visual display. National Braille Press is currently in the first year of product development and making significant progress. A working prototype of the Wizard is expected to be completed by 2011 and the device will be available to the public soon after that. Since Android is a working, usable operating system, we expect to continually upgrade and expand the features of the Wizard. Applications for the Wizard will be created by third party developers so there is unlimited possibility for the product to evolve based on the user's needs. About National Braille Press The Wizard is a project of the Center for Braille Innovation (CBI) (insert link) at National Braille Press (www.nbp.org), which began in the winter of 2009. In an effort to increase brwaille literacy, the Wizard was conceived as the first CBI project, one of many projects that NBP's Center plans to initiate to make accessible technology products for blind people so that they can stay connected in the digital world. NBP is taking a leadership role to research, develop and produce specific affordable accessible technology products that will help promote braille literacy for young readers, and support blind students and adults in school and in the workplace environment. While paper braille will not disappear in the immediate future, NBP believes that it is equally important for blind people to have accessible technology to access information that the digital age provides Worldwide Collaborations Since the launch of National Braille Press's Center for Braille Innovation, NBP has been joined by the National Federation of the Blind, The China Braille Press, the World Braille Foundation and the American Printing House for the Blind to partner in various affordable technology projects for blind people. The Wizard project is being funded by the National Braille Press, federal appropriations, the National Federation of the Blind, and the China Braille Press. As non-profit organizations, these groups are committed to ensuring that blind people have access to technology at affordable prices. If you would like to donate to this project, please go to (www.nbp.org) to learn more. ![]() Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From stan_martin at ncsu.edu Mon Sep 13 21:09:00 2010 From: stan_martin at ncsu.edu (Stan North Martin) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] IT Accessibility Coordinator job opening @ NC State University Message-ID: <4C8EF55C.4010501@ncsu.edu> Greetings, We would love your help in passing along the word about this opening to those who might be interested. The job will be posted at least through Sept. 24. My apologies for the cross-posting. The NC State Office of Information Technology has an exciting opening for the role of University IT Accessibility Coordinator. This person will proactively and systemically address overall accessibility of IT systems and infrastructure to improve the usability and interoperability of university IT resources and instruction delivery mechanisms for people with disabilities. The primary areas of responsibility include: * Oversight for Accessible IT - Working with the Information Technology Accessibility Advisory Working Group (IT AAWG), coordinate campus efforts to provide exemplary barrier-free computing and information technology (IT) systems and resources. These include hardware, software applications, web content, web tools and other online and classroom technologies. * Outreach - Promote awareness of the need for accessibility of information systems and effect systemic change. * Research - Keep abreast of emerging assistive, information, and instructional technologies and solutions. * Policy/Standards - Establish policies and standards related to the university's providing accessible IT software systems, online materials and facilities. For additional information, including qualifications, and to apply, see jobs.ncsu.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=87919 Best regards, Stan -- Stan North Martin Director of Outreach, Communications& Consulting Office of Information Technology North Carolina State University 919.515.1348 stan_martin@ncsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, when doing the install through the Task Scheduler the installation causes the K3000 to behave as a standalone license rather than a network license. Has anyone else encountered this problem and if so, were you able to find a fix. We are working with the Kurzweil folks, but so far they have not been able to offer a fix. Thanks for any information you are able to provide. Joe Humbert, Assistive Technology and Web Accessibility Specialist UITS Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington 535 W Michigan St. IT214 E Indianapolis, IN 46202 Office Phone: (317) 274-4378 Cell Phone: (317) 644-6824 johumber@iupui.edu http://iuadapts.Indiana.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Wed Sep 15 11:36:23 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:06 2018 Subject: [Athen] Question about Braille, tactile graphics, costs, etc. Message-ID: <4C911227.30305@stanford.edu> Hello all, I am wearing my manager hat this morning and would like to get some information regarding out-sourcing costs related to braille production and tactile graphics. Does anyone have general price points as it relates to the conversion of computer science or engineering-type materials into braille and tactile graphics? I realize (most) production costs are done on a per page basis and that costs can vary significantly depending on the specific material in question, but what I am looking for are general price points for Nemeth/CBC transcription that I can then use to get an estimate for books. Price points for tactile graphics would also be very helpful. I understand these can vary as well, but once again, I am just looking for generic numbers. As advertising is generally frowned upon for these lists, please respond via e-mail directly to: skeegan@stanford.edu Thanks you, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From hkramer.atsol at gmail.com Wed Sep 15 12:02:22 2010 From: hkramer.atsol at gmail.com (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save $115 on Accessing Higher Ground Conference Message-ID: *Save $115 on Accessing Higher Ground 2010 Conference if you register by October 1 and are a renewing ATHEN member* Dear ATHEN Members: Online registration for the 2010 Accessing Higher Ground Conference is now open at: http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference/registration2010.html. As you know, AHG is the official conference of ATHEN. As such, ATHEN conducts its annual business meeting at AHG. In addition, renewing ATHEN members will receive a $65 discount off registration fees and a $50 early registration discount if you register by October 1. (Only ATHEN members who have been dues paying members within the last 2 years, 2010 or 2009, are eligible for the $65 discount upon renewal of their ATHEN membership and payment of dues through the AHG conference.)* As an ATHEN member, you will also receive a free conference audio DVD. Check out some of the highlights below and the full schedule at: http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference. Regards, Howard Kramer Conference Coordinator *For those who cannot pay ATHEN dues through the AHG conference registration - i.e. with credit card or check - contact Joe Humbertjohumber@iupui.edu or Ron Stewart ron@altformatsolutions.com for other options. You will need a discount code, available from Joe Humbert, to obtain the discount mentioned above. * The distinguished Dr. George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium, will be this year's keynote, speaking on the topic: eBook Standards, Laws, and Current Implementations. * New Location! This is the second year at the the beautiful 4-star Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado. The Westin has excellent conference facilities, is fully accessible and is located within view of the Rocky Mountains, about half-way between Denver and Boulder. * National ATHEN meeting: Access Technology in Higher Education Network is an organization for professionals who work with access technology in the higher education environment. Learn about the organization and meet other members during the annual meeting. * A number of specialized tracks by the Rocky Mountain ADA Center, WebAIM, EASI, Dolphin Computer Access and others * Dr. Clayton Lewis, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities will speak on the Implications of Cloud Computing for People with Cognitive Disabilities at the Thursday plenary talk. * Over 60 presentations and hands-on sessions taught by national experts * Over 35 hours of hands-on workshops included in the agenda. More information at conference site: http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference/or contact ahg@colorado.edu. -- Howard Kramer AHG Conference Coordinator Access Specialist 303-492-8672 fax: 492-5601 Disability Services Division of ODECE- achieving excellence through diversity and inclusion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asuncion at alcor.concordia.ca Fri Sep 17 04:39:15 2010 From: asuncion at alcor.concordia.ca (Jennison Mark Asuncion) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] reminder 2nd Accessibility Camp DC, Oct 9 Message-ID: Hello, We're less than one month away from the 2nd annual Accessibility Camp DC. This free, participant-driven event will take place at MLK Library in Washington D.C. on Saturday, October 9. In the spirit of other unconferences/barcamps, we will invite attendees to either present on a relevant IT accessibility topic, or to come and learn in an informal, open atmosphere. The audience is expected to be broad to include web/software developers, usability and accessibility professionals, end-users with disabilities, and others who have an interest in IT accessibility topics. For more info and to register, go to http://www.accessibilitycampdc.org - I look forward to seeing you there. Please share info about this event with others who you think might find it of interest. Jennison -- Jennison Mark Asuncion Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network LinkedIn at From dabrus at purdue.edu Mon Sep 20 06:19:41 2010 From: dabrus at purdue.edu (Brusnighan, Dean A.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Brian and Ken, Thanks for your responses. I have forwarded your suggestions and comments to the web developer. I hope to hear back from him to see how they helped. Dean From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Brian Richwine Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:26 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Safari issues with skip to content link How is the link coded? I'm wondering about the technique used to hide the link. If CSS is being used, and a "display:none" or "visibility:hidden" rule is being applied, then the link will be treated as if it does not exist. This is how we usually recommend coding a skip navigation link in the HTML. We place it immediately after the body element to users don't have to hunt for it:
And this is how we code the CSS to go along with it. This method allows the link to become visible when it receives focus. This enables the skip navigation link to be visible to all keyboard only users (not just screen-reader users!): /* Hide skip to content link */ #skipnav a, #skipnav a:hover, #skipnav a:visited { position: absolute; left:-9999px; top:auto; width:1px; height:1px; overflow:hidden; } /* Make skip to content link visible when focused */ #skipnav a:active, #skipnav a:focus { position:static; color:#000000; width:auto; height:auto; outline: thin dotted black; } On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brusnighan, Dean A. > wrote: A web developer on our campus is instituting a skip to content link to get past repetitive navigation, but is having trouble when testing with the Safari browser on both PC and Mac. He says It never gets to any in-browser tabs. It bounces from URL to browser search to web page search to search button to radio button back to URL without ever hitting the skip to content link. Another developer suggested setting tab index to 1, and they had already done that. Still the same result. Any suggestions? Dean ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dean Brusnighan Assistive Technology Specialist Purdue University, Young Hall 155 S. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 Phone: 765-494-9082 dabrus@purdue.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net Mon Sep 20 08:43:53 2010 From: ShelleyHaven at techpotential.net (Shelley Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Nuance releases Dragon Dictate for Mac Message-ID: <86126C49-CBCA-4981-9583-DDBBEAC2745B@techpotential.net> (Please forgive the cross-posting) Nuance just released Dragon Dictate for Mac (formerly Macspeech Dictate), incorporating several features previously only found in Dragon NaturallySpeaking: http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-product/dragon-for-mac/dragon-dictate/index.htm http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/205746/nuance_releases_dragon_dictate_for_mac_20.html - Shelley _____________________________ Shelley Haven ATP, RET Assistive Technology Consultant www.TechPotential.net From info at karlencommunications.com Wed Sep 22 06:29:36 2010 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility guidelines for e-newsletter In-Reply-To: References: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD2682532041AE961BE@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: <000001cb5a5a$339461f0$9abd25d0$@karlencommunications.com> Here is the standard for text only eNewsletters http://www.headstar.com/ten/ I would think that an HTML based newsletter would use the current HTML standards and an RTF or Word based newsletter would use well-structured document design. Cheers, Karen From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Nicaise D Sent: September-14-10 11:31 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Accessibility guidelines for e-newsletter Hi all, Are there accessibility guidelines for e-newsletters? Just wondering... If yes can someone point me where to find them? Thanks, Nicaise D ----- Think not with your EYES and you shall have a perfect VISION! --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jfoliot at stanford.edu Wed Sep 22 07:59:21 2010 From: jfoliot at stanford.edu (John Foliot) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility guidelines for e-newsletter In-Reply-To: <000001cb5a5a$339461f0$9abd25d0$@karlencommunications.com> References: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD2682532041AE961BE@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <000001cb5a5a$339461f0$9abd25d0$@karlencommunications.com> Message-ID: <019a01cb5a66$b83f47b0$28bdd710$@edu> Karlen Communications wrote: > > Here is the standard for text only eNewsletters > > http://www.headstar.com/ten/ Hi! The pedantic JF wishes to point out that while the "Text Email Newsletter (TEN) Standard" [sic] is a useful authoring guideline, it is *NOT* a Standard recognized by any standards body, but rather is a recommendation created after consulting with some blind users (via the RNIB). Using TEN has no programmatic benefit AFAIK, although having a recognizable authoring pattern is beneficial to both sighted and non-sighted users. However, using TEN does not make a text email/newsletter magically accessible, and is not referenced in any Standard or legislated requirement that I am aware of. Not to take away anything from TEN, but to keep it in the right perspective. Personally, I think that if you want to use TEN, it's not a bad thing, although it is somewhat UK-centric (in adoption and use) at this time. JF From info at karlencommunications.com Wed Sep 22 08:42:39 2010 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility guidelines for e-newsletter In-Reply-To: <019a01cb5a66$b83f47b0$28bdd710$@edu> References: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD2682532041AE961BE@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <000001cb5a5a$339461f0$9abd25d0$@karlencommunications.com> <019a01cb5a66$b83f47b0$28bdd710$@edu> Message-ID: <000b01cb5a6c$c9b521d0$5d1f6570$@karlencommunications.com> Thanks. Good to know. I know that someone was also working on an "RTF newsletter standard" but couldn't find anything on it when I looked. Cheers, Karen -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of John Foliot Sent: September-22-10 10:59 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility guidelines for e-newsletter Karlen Communications wrote: > > Here is the standard for text only eNewsletters > > http://www.headstar.com/ten/ Hi! The pedantic JF wishes to point out that while the "Text Email Newsletter (TEN) Standard" [sic] is a useful authoring guideline, it is *NOT* a Standard recognized by any standards body, but rather is a recommendation created after consulting with some blind users (via the RNIB). Using TEN has no programmatic benefit AFAIK, although having a recognizable authoring pattern is beneficial to both sighted and non-sighted users. However, using TEN does not make a text email/newsletter magically accessible, and is not referenced in any Standard or legislated requirement that I am aware of. Not to take away anything from TEN, but to keep it in the right perspective. Personally, I think that if you want to use TEN, it's not a bad thing, although it is somewhat UK-centric (in adoption and use) at this time. JF _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From milt.johnson at aggiemail.usu.edu Thu Sep 23 19:07:09 2010 From: milt.johnson at aggiemail.usu.edu (Milt Johnson) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Portable Readers Message-ID: We are looking at investing in a or some portable reader systems. Has anyone had experience with the following -- Pearl and OpenBook by Freedom Scientific, Zoom-Twix, Eye-Pal Solo, Eye-Pal, or Onyx? Is there any other systems you may prefer? Milt Johnson Assistive Technology Learning Center Utah State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have not been able to get much support/help from the Mathworks (maker of the tool), and he has not been very successful finding other users in any of his on-line forum contacts. Since this is a very popular tool at schools as well as in industry, just wondering if you may have any contacts that might be helpful." Jennifer Weir Assistive Technology Specialist Disability Services Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Driftwood 101, 6300 Ocean Drive Unit 5717 Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5717 (361) 825-3376 http://disabilityservices.tamucc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From burke at mso.umt.edu Fri Sep 24 08:07:13 2010 From: burke at mso.umt.edu (Burke, Dan (DSS)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Matlab/Simulink for blind users In-Reply-To: <0B42AA4F557E50498734AF1361C1D61907AF07@MB02.ad.tamucc.edu> References: <0B42AA4F557E50498734AF1361C1D61907AF07@MB02.ad.tamucc.edu> Message-ID: Would you mind if I relayed the question to the blind-math listserv that the NFB hosts? All I can say to recommend that resource is that I have no idea what they're talking about, except to glean that a lot of blind mathemeticians and teachers of the blind seem to be able to make some things work ... (smile) Dan Burke Assistant Director/Assistive Technology Coordinator Disability Services for Studentst The University of Montana Emma B. Lommasson Center 154 Missoula, MT 59812 406.243.4424 406.243.5330 FAX www.umt.edu/disability From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Weir, Jennifer Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 7:20 AM To: 'athen@athenpro.org' Subject: [Athen] Matlab/Simulink for blind users I received this question from a friend and wonder if anyone has any suggestions? I have not had the pleasure of working with Matlab yet.. Thanks for any responses. "I'm wondering if you know of any blind students using Matlab/Simulink? I have a blind engineer in my group whose job involves doing simulations to test Simulink models. I don't know if you are familiar with the tool, but Simulink is a graphical modeling tool (which is of course problematic for a blind person). He is able to use excel, Command line commands and scripts he has written to generate test vectors, run the simulation and analyze the results, but is completely unable to access any useful information from or manipulate the model itself. We have not been able to get much support/help from the Mathworks (maker of the tool), and he has not been very successful finding other users in any of his on-line forum contacts. Since this is a very popular tool at schools as well as in industry, just wondering if you may have any contacts that might be helpful." Jennifer Weir Assistive Technology Specialist Disability Services Texas A&M University Corpus Christi Driftwood 101, 6300 Ocean Drive Unit 5717 Corpus Christi, TX 78412-5717 (361) 825-3376 http://disabilityservices.tamucc.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Todd UW-Madison From edward at ngtvoice.com Tue Sep 28 08:32:55 2010 From: edward at ngtvoice.com (Ed. Rosenthal) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Olympus digital recorder with DAISY book functions DM-2 & DM-4 In-Reply-To: <20100928094132035.00000005292@AT_Specialist> References: <20100928094132035.00000005292@AT_Specialist> Message-ID: <007b01cb5f22$6dcba320$4962e960$@com> We have done well using this technology with the Dragon speech recognition transcription feature (as we do with many of the Olympus digital recorders); it also has voice command and control so while not certified for the blind user, many have found the fact that they can now voice in commands to make the difference. -ed. Your sincerely, Edward S. Rosenthal President and CEO Next Generation Technologies, Inc. (NGT, Inc.) 20006 Cedar Valley Rd. #101 Lynnwood, Wa. 98036 425-744-1100 ext.15 EM: edward@ngtvoice.com URL: http://www.ngtvoice.com Skype: ed.rosenthal7 -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Todd Schwanke Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:42 AM To: ATHEN listserv (athen@athenpro.org) Subject: [Athen] Olympus digital recorder with DAISY book functions DM-2 & DM-4 Does anyone have any experience with the Olympus DM-2 or DM-4 digital recorder? http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1508 They are listed as having DAISY book playback functions. http://www.olympusamerica.com/files/oima_cckb/DM-4_DM-2_Detailed_Instruction s_EN.pdf >From the manual it appears they have both the capability to play DAISY 2 books (possibly both audio and text p19, 132), as well as convert text documents to speech (p 158) On a side note, they are also listed as Dragon certified. Any experiences using them with Naturally Speaking? Thanks, Todd UW-Madison _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From skeegan at stanford.edu Tue Sep 28 12:34:44 2010 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows Message-ID: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Hello all, Well, the wait is over...at least for those on the Windows platform. The Blio e-reader platform has launched and is available at the Blio site today: http://www.blio.com/ Here is the press announcement that provides a few tidbits of information: http://tinyurl.com/2bvhmdy What I find a tad interesting is the small print on the Downloads page that says, "NOTE: An accessible version of Blio will be available for download in October." I will be playing with it later, but anyone have any first impressions? Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae From Teresa.Haven at asu.edu Tue Sep 28 12:39:51 2010 From: Teresa.Haven at asu.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A894B9B@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> I noticed that fine print, too, and it almost dissuaded me from downloading it today. However, I did so, it appeared to download and install correctly, but when I run it... Nothing. A Blio splash screen for a couple seconds and then the Windows "clunk" sound of a program crashing. No error message, nothing. Am hoping others will have better results... Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 12:35 PM To: Alternate Media; Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows Hello all, Well, the wait is over...at least for those on the Windows platform. The Blio e-reader platform has launched and is available at the Blio site today: http://www.blio.com/ Here is the press announcement that provides a few tidbits of information: http://tinyurl.com/2bvhmdy What I find a tad interesting is the small print on the Downloads page that says, "NOTE: An accessible version of Blio will be available for download in October." I will be playing with it later, but anyone have any first impressions? Take care, Sean -- Sean Keegan, M.S. Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/oae _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From SKelmer at stlcc.edu Tue Sep 28 13:04:06 2010 From: SKelmer at stlcc.edu (Kelmer, Susan M.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Well, I'm not having any luck either. It also made me update my .NET framework, which I am always reluctant to do because it can break other things. When I try to run it, I get an error and it wants to send it to Microsoft. Not very helpful. I'm going to try a reboot and see if that helps. Susan Kelmer Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist St. Louis Community College @ Meramec 314-984-7951 From jeffreydell99 at gmail.com Tue Sep 28 14:31:25 2010 From: jeffreydell99 at gmail.com (Jeffrey Dell) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I was able to install, open, Create my user, and read a book with the Read Outloud feature. I also downloaded The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. and started to read it. The navigation features did not seem to work well with JAWS yet. Access with JAWS was poor so the warning is true. JAWS would not read many radio buttons and would not read the text of the book itself. My install was on a Win 7 64 bit PC. When I had MAGic on with inverse contrast the contrast of the text in the book was not very sharp. At the moment I am more impressed with iBooks. It does have the accessibility of the Kindel and Barnes and Noble ebook softwares beaten (which did not take much). Jeff On 9/28/10, Kelmer, Susan M. wrote: > Well, I'm not having any luck either. It also made me update my .NET > framework, which I am always reluctant to do because it can break other > things. When I try to run it, I get an error and it wants to send it to > Microsoft. Not very helpful. I'm going to try a reboot and see if that > helps. > > Susan Kelmer > Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist > St. Louis Community College @ Meramec > 314-984-7951 > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > From petri.1 at osu.edu Wed Sep 29 00:08:43 2010 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I have been playing around quite a lot with Blio for PC over the past few hours, reading through the manual, trying out reading features, downloading and searching for books, and so I thought I'd relay my experiences and opinions. My overall opinion is that this present release of Blio, while it is a promising effort, leaves quite a lot to be desired. Like most of you, I have been waiting for Blio for about a year and tracking all of the missed release dates--February, April, June, July. Thus, that it delivers so far short on so many counts is very very disappointing. People on this list have been waiting, especially, for accessibility features. We have been expecting usable and complete keyboard navigation and screen reader accessibility. Well, we're going to have to wait a while longer for those promised "features." As Sean pointed out, Blio is saying there won't be screen reader accessibility until October (let's hope they actually deliver on that date (fat chance??)). And I'm assuming (but definitely not holding my breath) that that "accessible" release will include better (full?) keyboard support--keyboard support is definitely *not good* right now. Unlike some others in this thread, I did not run into any installation problems. But I also have a newer Windows 7 laptop. Even with my laptop and hardware acceleration for graphics, I have noticed pretty clunky animation transitions in various reading views and when moving between panels in the bookstore. (More on that later.) It is clear that the current Blio for PC needs a fairly powerful machine to run smoothly. During installation, if you don't have at least .NET framework version 3.5 you will be prompted to update. Win 7 or Vista users won't hit this snag (Win 7 shipped with .NET 4.0). You may also be prompted to install PlayReady, a Microsoft DRM software package. This isn't a big deal and goes smoothly--though I did not try installing while running a screen reader.... So as not to drag out my review, I'm going to enumerate what I found good and not so good with the current product. What is good: - Has ability to *highlight text* in various colors. - Can make *text notes* on any passage in a book--you select text and associate a note with that text. - Can *look up words or phrases* via user-configurable services. For example, you can lookup a word at dictionary.reference.com or thesaurus.reference.com or a phrase or name via wikipedia, all while remaining in Blio. Blio has a built in web browser and when you highlight a word or phrase, it allows you to select a reference and perform a search on that reference with the results appearing in the browser that pops up as a full-screen overlay over the book you are currently reading. While this does not feel as "integrated" as the lookup in iBooks, it is certainly serviceable and is more flexible, since you can add any number of lookup services. - Allows you to read *both XPS and ePub books* (but not PDF, even though PDF was promised). XPS books look like their print counterparts--page fidelity is maintained. However, you can also have XPS books "reflow." And you can set a number of different page layouts, including double page (side by side), single page, 3-D book view with animated page turning, and, perhaps most interesting, a "ReadLogic" view, which animates your movement through the book by drawing a box around a portion of a page and then zooming that portion with a (not always very smooth) animation. - *ReadAloud functionality*: You can "play" a book by clicking a play button or, in certain views, by double-clicking a word on a page. Blio will read aloud, using your Windows installed voices, and highlight each word as it reads. It would be nice to have more sophisticated highlighting. For example, highlighting a whole sentence and then using a secondary highlight to read word by word through that sentence. Such highlighting options are available in Read and Write Gold and other text-reading assitive technologies. But, for a first release, the word by word highlighting will probably prove very useful for people with reading disabilities. It reads aloud with your installed voices. If you have only Microsoft Anna (or worse), then the experience won't be that great. Getting a couple of good SAPI 5 voices would be a good idea for Blio users. You can set the reading speed and choose the voice inside of Blio's settings menus. - *Keyboard navigation through pages* of a book and through ReadLogic "zoomed" portions of a page. The latter is the most interesting way to read: As you press Enter (Shift-Enter to go backwards), you progress from viewing a full page and then animate to a zoomed view of a portion of the page. Press Enter again and you animate to the next zoomed portion of a page. This is a pretty compelling reading experience. (Note the caveat in the section below, regarding using ReadLogic and ReadAloud simultaneously.) - Ability to *download both free and purchased books*. At present, a user can purchase (a limited number of) books from the Baker and Taylor catalog. But you can also download free epub books from FeedBooks and Google Books, without having to leave Blio. What is not good: - *Using ReadLogic and ReadAloud simultaneously is problematic. *In other views, when you use the ReadAloud function, highlighting remains visible--the page will scroll or you will move to another page as it continues to read and highlight. In ReadLogic zoomed mode, however, the highlighting may disappear below the currently visible area, forcing you to hit the Enter key to zoom to the next ReadLogic portion--but doing so, stops the read aloud. To restart read aloud you have to select some text and click the play button at the bottom of the Blio window. - Unlike Kindle for PC, there is *no way to search on text phrases*within a book. - *ReadLogic and some other animations are jerky*, even on my relatively high-powered laptop (2.4 GHz, Intel Core i5 with 4GB of RAM). - *Limited keyboard shortcuts/accessibility*. Blio is not operable solely via keyboard--very far from it, in fact. Current keyboard shortcuts allow only for zooming pages, moving by pages/ReadLogic zoom levels within a book, navigating the library, and moving through books in the download area. It is possible to move through a book word by word and highlight via the keyboard, but only if you first click on a word in the text--you can't get there by keyboard alone. And most of the menu and other options and settings cannot be accessed by keyboard alone. - *No shortcuts for starting, stopping, and advancing ReadAloud playback*. Until there are reliable shortcut keys for stopping and starting the read aloud functionality, the only worthwhile settings options seems be choosing Continuous" as the ReadAloud mode (keeps reading until you click the page or hit pause) or setting the mode to "Self-paced" and the unit to "Page." At least in the XPS and epub books I experimented with, it is clear Blio does not really understand what a paragraph is: if you set reading "Units" to "Paragraph," it will stop reading every couple of lines, rather than at the end of a paragraph. - *No way to adjust ReadAloud speed via keyboard shortcuts*. The only way to adjust read-aloud speed is via the settings menu outside of the book view. It would be nicer to have keyboard shortcuts for adjusting speed of playback on the fly. - There is *no means to search via highlight color or highlights*(regardless of color). However, selecting or editing a note in the notes panel moves you to that place in the book--*but* once there, how to I get back to my current reading position? There is *no "back" button, nor can you enter a page number and jump to it, nor bookmark a page. *You can navigate by page thumbnail, via the table of contents, and via simple page turns. Adding jumping by page number, highlight, and bookmark would dramatically improve book navigation. - * No contrast settings, no Windows high-contrast mode. In comparison, white/gray on black and light gray on sepia are available on Kindle on PC. Blio also does not adopt Windows high-contrast settings. * - * There is no true full-screen mode, unlike Kindle for PC which can go full-screen. * - * *Compared to iBooks, the *graphics for turning a page and the gradient that represents the shadow* for the left hand page when in double-page layout mode do not render smoothly. Parts of Blio look "unpolished" and "beta." - *Blio Store collection of books limited at present*. The Baker and Taylor collection of books available to Blio is a start, but is not even in the same ballpark as Amazon's bookstore for Kindle. (Try searching for Arthur Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, or Dashiell Hammett in both Kindle and Blio and you will see instantly what I mean.) It will be nice when they start to add more books. Also, the Blio store doesn't have things Amazon shoppers have come to expect, like the ability to preview chapters in a book and read extensive reviews and/or rankings. Prices seem higher than Amazon or Kobo, as well. Also, the *Google + Feedbooks search didn't always return books from both repositories*--usually, Feedbooks came back alone, without stuff from the Google catalog. - The user's Library is easy to get around in and can be viewed many different ways, but it has some quirks. For example, Blio "ships" with three downloadable XPS formatted books--two childrens books and a book on Woodstock. It's hard to imagine most people wanting to keep these books, and yet there appeared *no way to delete them from the library*. You can "filter" on books that are actually resident on the local computer and this will filter out those junk books. However they remain "ready for download." Why can't I remove all reference to them? - *No means to organize books*. There should be a way to organize books in the Library into user-created folders or "bookcases" (or some other such metaphor). This would be a necessity for a student trying to organize textbooks by class or subject, for example. Best regards, ken --- Ken Petri Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center 102D Pomerene Hall, 1760 Neil Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210 Office: 614.292.1760 Mobile: 614.218.1499 Fax: 614.292.4190 Email: petri.1@osu.edu On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Jeffrey Dell wrote: > I was able to install, open, Create my user, and read a book with the > Read Outloud feature. I also downloaded The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. > and started to read it. The navigation features did not seem to work > well with JAWS yet. > Access with JAWS was poor so the warning is true. JAWS would not read > many radio buttons and would not read the text of the book itself. My > install was on a Win 7 64 bit PC. When I had MAGic on with inverse > contrast the contrast of the text in the book was not very sharp. > At the moment I am more impressed with iBooks. It does have the > accessibility of the Kindel and Barnes and Noble ebook softwares > beaten (which did not take much). > Jeff > > On 9/28/10, Kelmer, Susan M. wrote: > > Well, I'm not having any luck either. It also made me update my .NET > > framework, which I am always reluctant to do because it can break other > > things. When I try to run it, I get an error and it wants to send it to > > Microsoft. Not very helpful. I'm going to try a reboot and see if that > > helps. > > > > Susan Kelmer > > Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist > > St. Louis Community College @ Meramec > > 314-984-7951 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Athen mailing list > > Athen@athenpro.org > > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have a laptop with Vista so may try it on that one, but that won't help my students and will lead me to give a very poor review of the product in the end. Susan Kelmer Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist St. Louis Community College @ Meramec 314-984-7951 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Wed Sep 29 07:59:50 2010 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Yes, Susan. I think Blio is currently "undercooked." Maybe the next version will handle some of the problems I discovered and fix the install problems. Though I'm excited about the ReadAloud feature and some of the other promising tidbits, overall the thing needs work. k On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Kelmer, Susan M. wrote: > Thanks Ken. I really wanted this to work. But even with my higher-end > XP machine, Blio installed but won?t run. I can?t even figure out why, it > gives no useful error message for me to look at. I?m disappointed. We?re > still an XP campus, as are many others out there. I have a laptop with > Vista so may try it on that one, but that won?t help my students and will > lead me to give a very poor review of the product in the end. > > > > Susan Kelmer > > Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist > > St. Louis Community College @ Meramec > > 314-984-7951 > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Haven at asu.edu Wed Sep 29 08:20:13 2010 From: Teresa.Haven at asu.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Message-ID: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. > > Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, > Teresa > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. > Supervisor, Alternate Format Program > Disability Resource Center > Arizona State University > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org -- Greg Kraus LecShare, Inc. 919.413.2100 (voice) 919.882.1275 (fax) www.lecshare.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From john.gardner at orst.edu Wed Sep 29 08:26:58 2010 From: john.gardner at orst.edu (John Gardner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: <007201cb5fea$c1e69050$45b3b0f0$@gardner@orst.edu> Teresa, this is really a Microsoft problem. Why don't you send samples of the Word files and the PowerPoints showing various behavior to the MS Accessibility group and ask them for help? Other companies are expected to provide support - why not Microsoft? John From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:20 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Haven at asu.edu Wed Sep 29 10:06:01 2010 From: Teresa.Haven at asu.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <3267F8C54E50F4409A01B84791B9A9011162CD6F1B@MENTZ.ccc.lan> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> <3267F8C54E50F4409A01B84791B9A9011162CD6F1B@MENTZ.ccc.lan> Message-ID: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956759@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Hi, Sharon. Another person and I were just having that same conversation off-list. The thing is, this doesn't appear to be a case of textboxes being used, which is why I'm stumped... Thanks for the input, though, it's always something to share with faculty to help them with the process. Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ From: Sharon Trerise [mailto:trerise@cayuga-cc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:01 AM To: Teresa Haven Subject: RE: PowerPoint slides question If you add text to a slide using Insert / Textbox, then the text will not show up on the outline and it will not be available to a screen reader. If you only use the boxes that appear on the template, then all the text should be accessible. ... at least that is my experience with PPT 2003 version. Sharon Sharon Trerise Coordinator of Disability Services Cayuga Community College 197 Franklin St. Auburn, NY 13021 315-294-8606 From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:20 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greg at lecshare.com Wed Sep 29 10:19:44 2010 From: greg at lecshare.com (Greg Kraus) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956759@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> <3267F8C54E50F4409A01B84791B9A9011162CD6F1B@MENTZ.ccc.lan> <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956759@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: <5938BAE2-8D30-4E0B-8D2D-35AD904DC4AC@lecshare.com> Hi Teresa, Can you send an example of a PowerPoint presentation that has the problem? If you don't want to post it to the list you can send it to me directly. Greg On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Teresa Haven wrote: > Hi, Sharon. Another person and I were just having that same conversation off-list. The thing is, this doesn't appear to be a case of textboxes being used, which is why I'm stumped... > > Thanks for the input, though, it's always something to share with faculty to help them with the process. > > Teresa > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. > Supervisor, Alternate Format Program > Disability Resource Center > Arizona State University > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > From: Sharon Trerise [mailto:trerise@cayuga-cc.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:01 AM > To: Teresa Haven > Subject: RE: PowerPoint slides question > > If you add text to a slide using Insert / Textbox, then the text will not show up on the outline and it will not be available to a screen reader. If you only use the boxes that appear on the template, then all the text should be accessible. ? at least that is my experience with PPT 2003 version. > > Sharon > > > Sharon Trerise > Coordinator of Disability Services > Cayuga Community College > 197 Franklin St. > Auburn, NY 13021 > 315-294-8606 > > From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:20 AM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question > > Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. > > Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, > Teresa > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. > Supervisor, Alternate Format Program > Disability Resource Center > Arizona State University > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org -- Greg Kraus LecShare, Inc. 919.413.2100 (voice) 919.882.1275 (fax) www.lecshare.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hascherdss at gmail.com Wed Sep 29 10:35:53 2010 From: hascherdss at gmail.com (Heidi Scher) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: I wonder if it's a case where the instructor initially used the template proper, then deleted the template box (as they want to change all the information) and added a new box. I have seen where this will impact the accessibility as well as what appears in the Outline view. But that's just my 2 cent guess. Aloha! Heidi +++++++++++++++ Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC Associate Director Center for Educational Access University of Arkansas ARKU 104 Fayetteville, AR 72701 479.575.3104 479.575.7445 fax 479.575.3646 tdd +++++++++++++++ On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Teresa Haven wrote: > Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. > I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the > accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see > Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some > slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides > are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, > the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and > producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four > bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still > be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this > erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to > resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible > materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem > is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs > and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. > > Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, > Teresa > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. > Supervisor, Alternate Format Program > Disability Resource Center > Arizona State University > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > _______________________________________________ > Athen mailing list > Athen@athenpro.org > http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Wed Sep 29 10:47:45 2010 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956759@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> <3267F8C54E50F4409A01B84791B9A9011162CD6F1B@MENTZ.ccc.lan> <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956759@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: <1BA7603F26BCC246BC92538FD2682532041B405189@orion.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Can you send me one of the files to look at? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:06 PM To: Sharon Trerise; Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Hi, Sharon. Another person and I were just having that same conversation off-list. The thing is, this doesn't appear to be a case of textboxes being used, which is why I'm stumped... Thanks for the input, though, it's always something to share with faculty to help them with the process. Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________________________________ From: Sharon Trerise [mailto:trerise@cayuga-cc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:01 AM To: Teresa Haven Subject: RE: PowerPoint slides question If you add text to a slide using Insert / Textbox, then the text will not show up on the outline and it will not be available to a screen reader. If you only use the boxes that appear on the template, then all the text should be accessible. ... at least that is my experience with PPT 2003 version. Sharon Sharon Trerise Coordinator of Disability Services Cayuga Community College 197 Franklin St. Auburn, NY 13021 315-294-8606 From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:20 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Haven at asu.edu Wed Sep 29 10:59:36 2010 From: Teresa.Haven at asu.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] [Off-LIST] Re: PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <828366346.79192.1285782729200.JavaMail.root@zm04.stanford.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> <828366346.79192.1285782729200.JavaMail.root@zm04.stanford.edu> Message-ID: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A9568CB@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Hey, Sean. I think I'll need to reply to the list -- Karen McCall and others asked me a similar question offline, and the answer is: I don't know, but it's a good chance. The prof said she has been teaching this class for several years and just edits/updates each year. Also, some of our campus has migrated to Office 2007 while some areas are still running 2003. I'm running 2003 with Compatibility Pack installed. The student in this particular course is a JAWS user and complaining of missing information -- apparently the same missing info that I am noting -- but I don't know what version of Office he is using. I think the group wisdom is that this is a compatibility issue with different versions of Office, and there may not be a simple fix; we may have to work in retrofit mode until the entire campus has migrated to the newer versions of Office and the problem reduces itself on its own. Thanks, everyone. Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Sean J Keegan [mailto:skeegan@stanford.edu] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:52 AM To: Teresa Haven Subject: [Off-LIST] Re: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question [OFF-LIST] Hi Teresa, I thought I would send this off-list initially as I am just "brainstorming" right now... Were the PPT presentations you are having problems with originally created in PowerPoint 2003 and now being edited in 2007? I ran into some issues with MS Word files with images and other content where the document was created in an older version of MS Office and then was being edited in the new version. Take care, sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teresa Haven" To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:20:13 AM Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ Athen mailing list Athen@athenpro.org http://athenpro.org/mailman/listinfo/athen_athenpro.org From normajean.brand at hccs.edu Wed Sep 29 12:14:21 2010 From: normajean.brand at hccs.edu (normajean.brand) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows In-Reply-To: References: <4CA24354.7020002@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I'm having some of the same issues on our Win7 machines. Students purchasing new laptops or desktops will have the Win7 OS installed, not XP or Vista, so I'm not real hopeful at this time with Blio to recommend it. Regards, Norma Jean ----------------------------------------------- NJ Brand, ATAC Houston Community College-Northwest ADA Technician Technology and Instructional Computing Room RC13 1010 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N. Houston TX 77043 VM/Office: 713.718.5604 FAX: 713.718.5430 Email: normajean.brand@hccs.edu http://northwest.hccs.edu SkypeMe: nj.brand From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Ken Petri Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:00 AM To: Kelmer, Susan M. Cc: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Blio launched today for Windows Yes, Susan. I think Blio is currently "undercooked." Maybe the next version will handle some of the problems I discovered and fix the install problems. Though I'm excited about the ReadAloud feature and some of the other promising tidbits, overall the thing needs work. k On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Kelmer, Susan M. > wrote: Thanks Ken. I really wanted this to work. But even with my higher-end XP machine, Blio installed but won't run. I can't even figure out why, it gives no useful error message for me to look at. I'm disappointed. We're still an XP campus, as are many others out there. I have a laptop with Vista so may try it on that one, but that won't help my students and will lead me to give a very poor review of the product in the end. Susan Kelmer Lab Coordinator/AT Specialist St. Louis Community College @ Meramec 314-984-7951 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sozi1 at mscd.edu Wed Sep 29 13:44:25 2010 From: sozi1 at mscd.edu (Ozi, Selim) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Pearson online Lab's Message-ID: Hi All, 1- I would like to get some insight and need your help documenting accessibility issues with Pearson. My School uses heavily Pearson products such as my language labs, my math labs, Course Compass etc.. Typically student buys the book and gets the CD and faculty provides username and passwords for the students to login to Pearson online labs. We Convert the book into accessible format (structured word-daisy) and give it to the students who are using screen reader (jaws 11) I consider myself a quite advance sighted Jaws user and test these online labs with various students who are blind and using screen readers. There are too much to list here that we find not accessible and end up accommodating student with reader to do work on the lab. 1- Has anyone had the any experience in their school with Pearson? 2- What is your policy in your school working with publisher's inaccessible course contents? 3- What is your policy if course syllabus stating to use my Spanish lab and faculty makes an exception so a student is blind and don't use the interactive Spanish lab? But follow the course from book (all fun staff and practices, quizzes are at my Spanish lab) 4- Are there any Colleges/universities out there Pearson is not allowed to sell their products or had to modify its services etc.. Your help greatly appreciated. Thanks. Selim ?zi. Access Center , Disability Accommodations And Adaptive Technology for Metropolitan State College of Denver. 303-556-8387. This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trerise at cayuga-cc.edu Thu Sep 30 08:14:12 2010 From: trerise at cayuga-cc.edu (Sharon Trerise) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] Pearson online Lab's In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3267F8C54E50F4409A01B84791B9A9011162CD6F25@MENTZ.ccc.lan> 1- Has anyone had the any experience in their school with Pearson? Our students have run into problems with MyMathLab and text-to-speech software. The sample problems are displayed as graphics (the entire problem, not just the equations) so the vast majority of text-to-speech software will not work. It has been over a year since this happened but I am guessing that the accessibility has not improved. 2- What is your policy in your school working with publisher's inaccessible course contents? We don't have a policy. I contacted Pearson several times and they assured me that the next version would be more accessible. However, the way it appears that they made it more accessible was to give the instructor the option to provide their own examples using MathML. That defies the whole purpose of MyMathLab which is to provide extensive practice and instruction for students without creating any more work for the instructor. 3- What is your policy if course syllabus stating to use my Spanish lab and faculty makes an exception so a student is blind and don't use the interactive Spanish lab? But follow the course from book (all fun staff and practices, quizzes are at my Spanish lab) In part because of the accessibility problems and partly because the students don't like MyMathLab, our instructors now use it as an optional tool for students to practice concepts that they are teaching in class. Our math department made a decision not to use it for testing or quizzes any longer. 4- Are there any Colleges/universities out there Pearson is not allowed to sell their products or had to modify its services etc.. Sharon Trerise Coordinator of Disability Services Cayuga Community College 197 Franklin St. Auburn, NY 13021 315-294-8606 From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Ozi, Selim Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:44 PM To: athen@athenpro.org Subject: [Athen] Pearson online Lab's Hi All, 1- I would like to get some insight and need your help documenting accessibility issues with Pearson. My School uses heavily Pearson products such as my language labs, my math labs, Course Compass etc.. Typically student buys the book and gets the CD and faculty provides username and passwords for the students to login to Pearson online labs. We Convert the book into accessible format (structured word-daisy) and give it to the students who are using screen reader (jaws 11) I consider myself a quite advance sighted Jaws user and test these online labs with various students who are blind and using screen readers. There are too much to list here that we find not accessible and end up accommodating student with reader to do work on the lab. 1- Has anyone had the any experience in their school with Pearson? 2- What is your policy in your school working with publisher's inaccessible course contents? 3- What is your policy if course syllabus stating to use my Spanish lab and faculty makes an exception so a student is blind and don't use the interactive Spanish lab? But follow the course from book (all fun staff and practices, quizzes are at my Spanish lab) 4- Are there any Colleges/universities out there Pearson is not allowed to sell their products or had to modify its services etc.. Your help greatly appreciated. Thanks. Selim ?zi. Access Center , Disability Accommodations And Adaptive Technology for Metropolitan State College of Denver. 303-556-8387. This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. 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At Annual Conference, the ALA Council passed a resolution calling for the ALA President to form a Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content. Because the charge of this Task Force relates closely to work already underway with the Office for Information Technology Policy, we wanted to take some time to make sure that the two efforts would be well integrated. OITP will be serving as the "home" for the Task Force. The Task Force is charged with studying: . challenges and potential solutions in libraries for improved electronic content access, distribution and preservation systems, and infrastructure in response to the creation and migration of materials from print to electronic access; . collaborations that provide electronic content and distribution infrastructure for libraries, including the development of a list of potentially practical, effective collaborations and courses of action that ALA and libraries around the country could engage in; . current and emerging assistive technology that provides people with sensory and physical disabilities the opportunity to access electronic information hitherto inaccessible through libraries; . methods of encouraging solutions through libraries for electronic content access that use formats and standards that work across DRM-free device platforms; . options for compromise agreements between the library and publishing communities regarding access to digital content; and . the need for any ALA policies required to further the creation of an effective electronic content and distribution infrastructure for libraries; and . submit a report to Council at ALA Annual Conference in 2011 containing recommendations for the Association. In asking for nominations, we are looking for individuals who: . are knowledgeable about technology and its policy implications . can bring a broad understanding of issues . are representative of and knowledgeable about different library environments . are forward looking Because the issue of equitable access to electronic content has such a broad impact on the future of libraries and across libraries of all types, I am seeking a wide range of highly qualified individuals to serve on the task force. Please be aware that while it will not be possible to appoint all of the individuals nominated, the Task Force will be actively seeking feedback and guidance from all ALA units and members with an interest in this important issue. Please direct your nominations to OITP Director Alan Inouye at ainnouye@ala.org by October 15th. In proposing nominations, I am asking that you provide a brief (one paragraph) description of the strengths and experience the nominee would bring to the Task Force. 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Name: Task Force on Equitable Access Background and Charge 9-24-10.docx Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Size: 17053 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Thu Sep 30 13:31:25 2010 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Message-ID: <32D9F49A8F834E139DB27BC2E0E4FC8F@htctu.fhda.edu> In my experience, this happens when slides are copying from another PowerPoint presentation into the current one. For some reason, the slides that are copied are not seen by the program and are not included in the outline view. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6043 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ _____ From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:20 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. Many thanks for any ideas you might be able to share, Teresa ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Teresa LW Haven, Ph.D. Supervisor, Alternate Format Program Disability Resource Center Arizona State University ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Haven at asu.edu Thu Sep 30 13:37:36 2010 From: Teresa.Haven at asu.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:30:07 2018 Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In-Reply-To: <32D9F49A8F834E139DB27BC2E0E4FC8F@htctu.fhda.edu> References: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448A956452@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> <32D9F49A8F834E139DB27BC2E0E4FC8F@htctu.fhda.edu> Message-ID: <04BE8DE2DBBF9D4C81B2225DA9D3D149448AA442A4@EX10.asurite.ad.asu.edu> Danke -- another potential piece of the puzzle. Is yet another possibility since this prof has been teaching this course for 6 years and updates it every term... Thanks! ________________________________ From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:31 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question In my experience, this happens when slides are copying from another PowerPoint presentation into the current one. For some reason, the slides that are copied are not seen by the program and are not included in the outline view. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6043 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ________________________________ From: athen-bounces@athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces@athenpro.org] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 8:20 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] PowerPoint slides question Aloha, all. I have an odd question that I hope someone can help with. I'm regularly asked to review various professors' Blackboard sites for the accessibility of their course content. I've recently started to see Powerpoint slide shows where some slides have all the text accessible, some slides have only part of the text accessible and part not, and some slides are completely inaccessible (blank in Outline view). In almost every case, the prof will have been using the same basic template for every slide, and producing very "clean" slides -- just a title at the top and three or four bullet points of text. Some profs are using Office 2007 and a few may still be using Office 2003. Does anyone have a clue what could be causing this erratic accessibility issue, and more importantly, suggestions on how to resolve it? I'm trying very hard to coach faculty to produce accessible materials in the first place, and they're trying to comply, but this problem is growing and retrofitting by re-typing the slide content into Word docs and distributing to students is not a reasonable solution at this time. 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