From hkramer.atsol at gmail.com Mon Apr 1 18:12:58 2013 From: hkramer.atsol at gmail.com (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:10 2018 Subject: [Athen] 9 Days Left to Submit Proposals for Accessing Higher Ground Message-ID: *9 Days Left to Submit Proposals for Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web & Technology Conference ? November 4 ? 8, 2013* * Accessing Higher Ground 2013 is now accepting proposals for its 16th Annual Conference in Westminster, Colorado. AHG focuses on accessible media, Universal Design, best practices for Web & media development, accessible curriculum, alternate format and other topics related to accessibility in higher education and other environments. The speaker proposal form can be found at: http://accessinghigherground.org/speaker_info2013.html. View last year?s sessionsto get a sense of the typical agenda and range of topics. If you have any questions about proposal submission, contact Howard Kramer at 303-492-8672 or at the email below. e-mail: ahg@ahead.org Conference URL: http://accessinghigherground.org/ -- Howard Kramer Coordinator Conference Coordinator *AHEAD* 303-492-8672 cell: 720-351-8668 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hkramer at colorado.edu Tue Apr 2 12:57:46 2013 From: hkramer at colorado.edu (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Looking for contributors to eBook on Universal Design for the Web Message-ID: Dear Colleagues: If anyone would like to contribute to an eBook on Universal Design for the Web, please visit the project wiki at: http://webdevgroupcu.org/wiki. The aim of the project is to develop a public domain ebook that can be used in college courses on Web design. Let me know if you have any questions. -Howard -- Howard Kramer CO-PI - UDUC *Promoting the Integration of Universal Design into University Curricula*(UDUC) Lecturer, Cont. Ed - Evening & Cred Admin 303-492-8672 cell: 720-351-8668 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Tue Apr 2 16:45:29 2013 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dragon install bugs with version 11 Message-ID: Dragon install bugs with version 11 Hi all, Am looking for anyone who has kept the DNS bug files on DNS 11 + 11.5 installs that have to do with C++ and Visual Basic errors and can forward them on to me. Thanks so much! Wink Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University Ashland OR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From pratikp1 at gmail.com Wed Apr 3 05:57:15 2013 From: pratikp1 at gmail.com (Pratik Patel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Apple iOS question In-Reply-To: <000c01ce3068$e9dfe6a0$bd9fb3e0$@karlencommunications.com> References: <000c01ce3068$e9dfe6a0$bd9fb3e0$@karlencommunications.com> Message-ID: <045201ce306a$c4d93940$4e8babc0$@gmail.com> Karen, If you do a factory restore on any Apple device, your data can be erased but the updates you applied will remain. They are operating system updates. They become a part of the system image used to restore. Regards, Pratik Patel Founder and CEO, EZFire T: 718-928-5529 M: 718-249-7019 E: ppatel@ezfire.net (or pratikp1@gmail.com) Follow me on Twitter: @ppatel Follow me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pratik-patel/9/985/882 Skype: Patel.pratik From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:44 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Apple iOS question I have two Apple devices that I need to remove all my stuff from but not the upgrades from Leopard to Lion and then Mountain Lion. If I restore to factory defaults how can I update the devices again to Mountain Lion? Or, if I use Erase Content and Settings will this remove all my stuff and leave the iOS upgrades and updates intact? The Apple website doesn't seem to answer this question but did give information on the erase content and settings. Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at karlencommunications.com Wed Apr 3 06:25:41 2013 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Apple iOS question In-Reply-To: <045201ce306a$c4d93940$4e8babc0$@gmail.com> References: <000c01ce3068$e9dfe6a0$bd9fb3e0$@karlencommunications.com> <045201ce306a$c4d93940$4e8babc0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <003801ce306e$bd712dd0$38538970$@karlencommunications.com> Thanks, I wanted to make sure that my operating system updates were still there and I didn't have to buy them again or install them again. Cheers, Karen From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Pratik Patel Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 8:57 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: RE: [Athen] Apple iOS question Karen, If you do a factory restore on any Apple device, your data can be erased but the updates you applied will remain. They are operating system updates. They become a part of the system image used to restore. Regards, Pratik Patel Founder and CEO, EZFire T: 718-928-5529 M: 718-249-7019 E: ppatel@ezfire.net (or pratikp1@gmail.com) Follow me on Twitter: @ppatel Follow me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pratik-patel/9/985/882 Skype: Patel.pratik From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:44 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Apple iOS question I have two Apple devices that I need to remove all my stuff from but not the upgrades from Leopard to Lion and then Mountain Lion. If I restore to factory defaults how can I update the devices again to Mountain Lion? Or, if I use Erase Content and Settings will this remove all my stuff and leave the iOS upgrades and updates intact? The Apple website doesn't seem to answer this question but did give information on the erase content and settings. 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Coming up in June, the ACE Institute will offer three new in-depth, instructor-led online training courses: *Accessibility Concepts* *Tuesday, June 11th ? 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM EDT* This interactive course provides a firm grounding in accessibility and information technology from an individual, enterprise, and global perspective. In-depth training is provided, covering accessibility, assistive technology, user requirements for individuals with disabilities, applicable laws and worldwide standards, and creation of the business case for accessibility. *Web Accessibility Basics* *Wednesday, June 12th and Thursday, June 13th ? 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM EDT Daily* This interactive course, divided into two 4 hour sessions over two consecutive days, provides training on the creation and testing of websites and applications for accessibility and compliance with relevant standards. In-depth instruction is provided on the principles and standards of web accessibility, including best practices for core areas of accessibility such as color, non-text elements, page structure, lists, links, frames, navigation, keyboard access, focus, data tables, layout tables and forms. *Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Basics* *Tuesday, June 18th and Wednesday, June 19th ? 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Daily* This interactive course, divided into two 4 hour sessions over two consecutive days, provides content authors and managers with in-depth training on Adobe Acrobat accessibility solutions. In order to give participants the functional knowledge needed to create fully accessible documents, key topics will include an overview of PDF documents, proper preparation of native documents and best practices for core areas of accessibility such as images, color, reading order, links, page structure, lists and typography. *Be sure to take advantage of the early registration discount that ends on Friday, May 3rd!* Register at https://ace.ssbbartgroup.com/index.php or call (800) 889-9659 to register by phone *Training certificate of completion will be provided* *About SSB BART Group?s ACE Institute for Learning* SSB?s Accessibility, Compliance, and Expertise (ACE) Institute for Learning instructs accessibility-focused courses that provide the knowledge and skills to select, implement and build Information Technology (IT) systems that conform to Section 508, the WCAG 2.0 and other relevant accessibility requirements and standards. Providing basic to advanced level training, the course offerings include accessibility awareness issues and basic programming skills, accessibility specific procurement information, and advanced programming and auditing proficiencies. Accessibility Overview Webinar Series For a high-level preview of some of the topics that will be covered in-depth during the ACE training in June, check out our Accessibility Overview Webinar Series . This series of weekly 30-minute webinars will cover topics such as accessibility concepts, assistive technology, laws and standards, and document accessibility. Registration is free. Sam Joehl Director of Client Services SSB BART Group (703) 637-8956 Sam.joehl@ssbbartgroup.com Accessibility-On-Demand Follow us: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Blog | Newsletter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JElmer at vcccd.edu Wed Apr 3 11:00:13 2013 From: JElmer at vcccd.edu (John Elmer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dragon install bugs with version 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I thought I had deleted your message, so I'd sent this to the Alt Media list. Here ya go: Dragon 11/ Windows API: Patch http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3838/kw/download/p/17%2C37%2C128/page/2/r_id/100023 "Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe" or "Speech.dll" is an older file. Answer ID 3838 | Published 04/15/2003 12:00 AM | Updated 04/16/2010 04:49 PM "Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe" or "Speech.dll" is an older file. Problem: When attempting to launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking, one of the following errors may appear: * "Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe" * "Unable to find the file: C:\WINNT\Speech\VCMD.exe" * "The file C:\WINDOWS\speech\speech.dll is version 4.0.x.xxxx. Naturally Speaking requires version 4.0.4.2512 to run reliably." * "The file SAPIDLL.DLL did not register itself" Solution: Please follow these steps to reinstall Microsoft Speech API: 1. Click here to download the file "spchapi.exe". 2. Close out of all open applications running on the system. 3. Double-click the file "spchapi.exe" to start the installation. 4. Reboot the computer. You should now be able to launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking without any errors. From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 4:45 PM To: athen-list Subject: [Athen] Dragon install bugs with version 11 Dragon install bugs with version 11 Hi all, Am looking for anyone who has kept the DNS bug files on DNS 11 + 11.5 installs that have to do with C++ and Visual Basic errors and can forward them on to me. Thanks so much! Wink Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University Ashland OR -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu Wed Apr 3 13:27:45 2013 From: Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu (Kenneth Elkind) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dyslexia and TBI training strategies with Dragon Message-ID: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C7E4AF4@SN2PRD0102MB104.prod.exchangelabs.com> The last couple weeks posted this question on the Dragon NaturallySpeaking group Linked in. I thought you might be interested in some of the responses I received. Dyslexia and TBI training strategies When an individual with dyslexia or TBI reads text out loud to Dragon NaturallySpeaking the voice file created is going to be different than if the individual just dictates without any prompts. I realize this question is probably pretty complex but what is Dragon NaturallySpeaking doing when an individual reads text out loud in the training scripts. What are the best training strategies into this situation? I have fond memories of reading the Adventures of Alice Wonderland :-). Andy Tippett * I'd suggest that you do the enrollment with them, you get them to repeat what you say and you read a phrase at a time to them. Just make sure you work out how big a phrase the user is able to remember. The enrollment text just really needs to be got through..it's what you do after enrollment that really makes the difference to improved recognition and use. Hope that helps Stephan K?pper * Depending on the accent and fluency of the individual dictation, you may even skip general training and just do the audio wizard. Recognition is usually quite good, as long as dictation is reasonably fluent and the speaker doesn't have a strong regional accent. Seamus Cuddihy * If readings through the training script proves very difficult or even traumatic for the individual then it is possible to skip it. However, I have had very good success by getting the individual to repeat the text after me. Once the profile is successfully set up then you can begin building accuracy through usage. Just make sure they get a good grasp of the correction procedure following misrecognitions as this is how Dragon will learn and improve with use. Richard Birney * I keep a copy of the training material in text format. For those with visual stress they can use their colour overlays to make reading more comfortable. The same files can also be converted to audio to allow a user to listen then 'echo' on their own. Bear in mind that the dyslexic tendencies of many are exacerbated by the stress of training. (Even more so in front of a relative stranger) Making the material more accessible allows them to take control of their own profile development. This builds their confidence and sense of accomplishment. I agree with the comment that its what they do after initial training that counts, but there is a good chance that they will give up before that point if the profile doesn't work! Malcolm Aickin * It is some time ago I did the training; fond memories of Alice down the rabbit hole too! I have found that a dictating machine works much better for me than the head set. This made the whole training thing less intimidating and it was possible to delete and reread errors. I found a Sony recorder with a memory stick really useful and although the recorder is now long obsolete the latest version supports it, although I did have problems with an earlier upgrade. Kenneth Elkind Assistive Technology Specialist (617) 287- 5243 Kenneth.elkind@umb.edu Skype User Number: adaptiveumb Adaptive Computer Lab Maximizing Learning Potential Learn about the Adaptive Computer Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu Apr 4 08:40:17 2013 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dragon install bugs with version 11 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks John!!! Wink Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM, John Elmer wrote: > I thought I had deleted your message, so I?d sent this to the Alt Media > list. Here ya go:**** > > ** ** > > Dragon 11/ Windows API: Patch**** > > > > http://nuance.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3838/kw/download/p/17%2C37%2C128/page/2/r_id/100023 > **** > ?Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe? or "Speech.dll" is > an older file.**** > > Answer ID 3838 | Published 04/15/2003 12:00 AM | Updated > 04/16/2010 04:49 PM **** > > ?Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe? or "Speech.dll" is > an older file. **** > > *Problem:***** > > When attempting to launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking, one of the following > errors may appear:**** > > - ?Unable to find the file: C:\Windows\Speech\VCMD.exe?**** > - ?Unable to find the file: C:\WINNT\Speech\VCMD.exe?**** > - "The file C:\WINDOWS\speech\speech.dll is version 4.0.x.xxxx. > Naturally Speaking requires version 4.0.4.2512 to run reliably."**** > - "The file SAPIDLL.DLL did not register itself"**** > > *Solution:***** > > Please follow these steps to reinstall Microsoft Speech API:**** > > 1. Click hereto > *download* the file "spchapi.exe".**** > 2. Close out of all open applications running on the system.**** > 3. Double-click the file "spchapi.exe" to start the installation.**** > 4. Reboot the computer.**** > > You should now be able to launch Dragon NaturallySpeaking without any > errors.**** > > > **** > > ** ** > > *From:* athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto: > athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *Wink Harner > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 02, 2013 4:45 PM > *To:* athen-list > *Subject:* [Athen] Dragon install bugs with version 11**** > > ** ** > > Dragon install bugs with version 11 > > Hi all,**** > > Am looking for anyone who has kept the DNS bug files on DNS 11 + 11.5 > installs that have to do with C++ and Visual Basic errors and can forward > them on to me.**** > > Thanks so much!**** > > Wink**** > > Wink Harner**** > > Assistive Technology Specialist **** > > Southern Oregon University**** > > Ashland OR**** > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hunziker at email.arizona.edu Fri Apr 5 09:28:04 2013 From: hunziker at email.arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility for Interactive Tutorial Message-ID: <20C7E36CF6580646B9BAD516583109F61C22EAB5@SPACEMT.catnet.arizona.edu> Hi all, I'm working with the University of Arizona's Library team regarding the accessibility of their interactive tutorials. My understanding is that the code is open source and there are approximately 100 libraries across the nation either using or wanting to use these tutorials. However the tutorial isn't as accessible and usable as it could be which is delaying implementation on some campuses. So in an effort to create an accessible, interactive tutorial, I'm looking for some suggestions which ensures accessibility for both assistive technology users and mobile devices.... The "Guide on the Side" tutorials provide step-by-step instructions on the left side of the screen while allowing users to practice using a live website (or database) on the right side of the screen. An example of the tutorial can be found at http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/searching-academic-search-complete (please feel free to explore the tool and offer feedback/suggestions) The column on the left is basically one page with directions. Using Javascript and iframes allows the navigation elements on the bottom of the left window and displaying the library database page on the right allowing students to interactively follow along. Currently, in order to get to the page on the right, as a person using the keyboard to navigate, I have to go through the entire tutorial on the left before being able to access the right side. So, one thought I had was to create a page that gives directions and then links directly to the Library page. The link would open a new tab or window (not the most accessible option) and the user would switch between the two windows to complete the tutorial. While this isn't optimal, it's definitely more accessible than the current design. One of the key features we want to maintain include instant feedback for quiz answers and a quiz at the end that is graded automatically. Ideas for or examples of accessible, interactive tutorials would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker Coordinator, Technology Access Disability Resource Center 520-626-9409 hunziker@email.arizona.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeano at uwm.edu Fri Apr 5 11:23:13 2013 From: jeano at uwm.edu (Jean M Salzer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Re: ALEKS In-Reply-To: <201303211902.r2LJ2aL8000337@mxout14.cac.washington.edu> Message-ID: <1435951791.7725.1365186193679.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Hi Cathy, I've met with several people in McGraw Hill Connect territory (in person with math department faculty) as well as the Aleks accessibility dude/lawyer (via phone). They are planning on beta testing the javascript version of Aleks this summer and I've persuaded them to pay actual consumers to test things out on their own and provide feedback. The concern I still have is this: the accessibility dude/lawyer is reading the ADA as if he were teaching a course and trying to use the 'fundamental alterations to the course content' argument about Aleks. I did tell him that was an inappropriate excuse coming from him as vendor, that the only people who could make those statements were individual faculty related to specific curricular changes. He chose not to argue with me, but beware that's what they're saying. Here is a copy of their statement on Aleks and accessibility: Date: September 25, 2012 Re: Accessibility of ALEKS Course Products ALEKS is sensitive to the fact that educational institutions are required to comply with Sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990. To facilitate such compliance, ALEKS strives to be inclusive in all our product offerings to the fullest extent possible and is committed to providing all students with the benefits of a complete ALEKS experience. We are continuing to evaluate accessibility technology to determine how it can be used to improve the ALEKS experience for disabled students. ALEKS is accessible to many segments of the disabled population. Because there is no audio associated with the core ALEKS content, ALEKS is fully accessible to those who are partially or profoundly deaf. ALEKS does not rely exclusively on color to convey critical information so it is fully accessible to those that are color blind. Many students who have low vision or are otherwise visually impaired can use products such as Microsoft Magnifier to fully access ALEKS. Students who are incapable of using both a keyboard and a mouse simultaneously due to physical disabilities similarly have no limitations while using ALEKS. Profoundly blind students can access certain areas of ALEKS through the use of screen reader technology. However, as more fully discussed below, such technology is incapable of functioning with ALEKS artificial intelligence, open response questions and certain highly visual content. ALEKS Corporation is currently reprograming all ALEKS courses from Java to JavaScript to make them more compatible with screen reader technology. In this regard, is now testing content in Basic Math, Beginning Algebra and Intermediate Algebra which is programmed in JavaScript. As we pursue the long and complex reprogramming process, we hope that screen reader technology continues to improve. The resulting convergence should result in greater usability of ALEKS by profoundly blind students. ALEKS has established a collaboration with the Accessible Technology Initiative at The California State University to assist in design in accordance with W3C and WCAG 2.0 guidelines. The early releases of the accessible Math content will be also the subject of testing and review at selected colleges and/or universities. Our JavaScript programming strategy incorporates WAI-ARIA to allow dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed in JavaScript to interact more readily with screen readers. Our goal is to develop ALEKS math courses that are in ?compliance? from the perspective of Sections 504 or 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and Titles II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We are also striving to achieve a level of ?best practices? technical accessibility in accordance with W3C and WCAG 2.0 standards as well as overall usability for disabled students. With respect to accessibility for profoundly blind students, ALEKS plans to release ADA compliant content for ALEKS course products by Fall, 2013. Page 2 of 3 With regard to the current Java version of ALEKS, the limitations imposed by Java and the complexity of the programming, the course content, and student ?free response? input combine to make current assistive technology ineffective. Because it is not possible to modify this version of ALEKS without altering its fundamental functionality, we believe that the ?fundamental alteration? exception applies to the Java version of ALEKS. The uniqueness of ALEKS is based upon the individualized assessment and learning processes that are achieved through the use of artificial intelligence, which makes assessment much more accurate and significantly improves student learning efficiency and student learning outcomes. This process, which relies upon ?open ended? as opposed to multiple choice responses, instantly formulates algorithmically generated problems chosen to reflect the level of understanding reflected in the student?s responses to prior questions. Open ended responses in most mathematical subjects require the student to use input tools that interact with visually complex materials, such as Cartesian coordinate graphs, that are not currently usable by the profoundly blind. Technologies to effectively make such visually demanding input tools in ALEKS usable by the profoundly blind may become available as the technology in this area continues to evolve. However, making major changes to the current Java version of ALEKS would fundamentally alter its nature and functionality. On the other hand, were ALEKS to be reprogrammed to employ multiple choice questions for visually demanding material, the adverse impact on pedagogical methodology and learning outcomes would significantly reduce the effectiveness of ALEKS. Multiple-choice questions are poor tools for measuring the ability to solve quantitative problems, or to synthesize and evaluate information or apply knowledge to complex constructs. Quantitative problem-solving and higher-order reasoning skills are far better assessed through free response tests, which evaluate the student?s actual mastery of the question and eliminate statistical ?noise? from assessments of knowledge. In attempting to address the needs of students with limited vision and the needs of profoundly blind students, we have evaluated current screen reader technology and have determined it to be unsatisfactory in Math with regard to problems which are visually demanding (as is the case in a number of topics in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra). Within the JavaScript version of ALEKS Math content, we believe that input tools will be fully accessible. However, as we move toward greater accessibility in more advanced courses, we recognize the need to research, develop and implement accessible input tools in regard to open-ended Math problems for which answers can be entered in free response form while reducing the extent to which such input tools are visually demanding. As noted above, ALEKS Corporation has established a research collaboration with the California State University to develop ALEKS course products in JavaScript that retain the core nature and functionality of ALEKS artificial intelligence and learning outcomes and are accessible to blind or extremely visually impaired students. Page 3 of 3 Mathematics as early as Pre-Algebra is highly visual. Math textbooks and software naturally contain vast amounts of mathematical notation, graphs, and other forms of diagrams and pictures that are visual in nature. For many mathematical topics, the understanding derived through visualizing the mathematical concepts involved cannot be replicated easily, if at all, by available screen reader technology. This problem is inherent in Math and is faced by all providers of online Math content. Those that claim that all of their online Math content is fully compliant with the ADA, Section 504 or Section 508 are likely exaggerating their capabilities in this regard. The validity of such claims, therefore, should be thoroughly tested. To assist a profoundly blind student, it is most effective to convert these images into a raised form ? a tactile diagram ? that can be interpreted by touch. Using Alt Tags to describe complex graphs is a poor substitute for visualization or tactile diagrams. Even a highly detailed verbal description of a complex graph without tactile supplementation is unlikely to achieve the intended learning goal. Modification of math courses to eliminate complex graphing elements would adversely impact the intended learning outcomes of the course. As a result, ALEKS believes that such a modification would fundamentally alter the core functionality of these courses. Given the current state of assistive technology, many colleges and universities that have addressed the issue of teaching mathematics to profoundly blind students have determined that an ?alternative accessible arrangement? in the form of human assistance (qualified readers or transcribers to record answers) is the best accommodation for those students as they work through either a traditional math curriculum and textbook or as they work with ALEKS. This approach is also consistent with their approach to other visually demanding course work. We recognize that educational institutions must provide accommodations or modifications that would permit disabled students to receive all the educational benefits provided by the ALEKS technology in an equally effective and equally integrated manner. We are committed to broadening the accessibility of ALEKS and continuing to evaluate accessibility technology to determine how it can be used to improve the ALEKS experience for disabled students. We look forward to keeping you informed about our progress as we pursue our goal of creating courses that present advanced and visually demanding concepts such as graphing in a manner that is accessible and beneficial to blind and extremely visually impaired students. Very truly yours, Michael J. Rizzo General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer ----- Original Message ----- From: athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:02:36 PM Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17 Send athen-list mailing list submissions to athen-list@u.washington.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu You can reach the person managing the list at athen-list-owner@mailman1.u.washington.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of athen-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Accessibility Statements (Ron Stewart) 2. Re: Accessibility Statements (Dan Comden) 3. Re: Re: WCAG2 for e-texts (Greg Kraus) 4. Re: Accessibility Statements (Heidi Scher) 5. RE: Accessibility Statements (foreigntype) 6. RE: Accessibility Statements (Humbert, Joseph A) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:39:27 -0500 From: "Ron Stewart" Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Statements To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Message-ID: <013201ce25a2$a25a9c60$e70fd520$@ahead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Good afternoon all, had an interesting request. If you could set the accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say? Ron ************************************************************************* Ron Stewart MS Technology Advisor Association on Higher Education and Disabilities Chair, Technology Standing Committee Lead Chair, AHEAD Standing Committees 8300 West Weller St Yorktown, IN 47396 Mobile: 609 213-2190 Fax: 765 405-1484 ron@ahead.org http://www.ahead.org When you are having a reallly tough day, take a time out and think about what you have contributed to the lives of those that you have worked with. Many times it is just a baby step forward, but even that is progress! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130320/20ae947f/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:17:49 -0700 From: Dan Comden Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Statements To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Here's one. Yes, I'm a dreamer: "We try to be accessible in our products and services. We understand that accessibility is a process, not an end product. This means that we adhere to current standards toward this goal and where we fall short, we respond to customer concerns and complaints in a timely fashion. We won't treat accessibility as a single disability issue. We consider accessibility a core component of usability and will include testing for it as a primary step of our product development cycle. We don't want our employees to make false statements about the accessibility of our products and services, and if they are caught fudging, fibbing, or flat out lying about accessibility, we promise to publicly mock them before cutting them loose. We are just as cynical about VPATs as you are and because of this, we promise to use them as little as possible and instead refer to this mission statement. We'll include language that addresses accessibility in all our contracts with customers. We will steal the mice from our developers on a regular and random basis." On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ron Stewart wrote: > Good afternoon all, had an interesting request. If you could set the > accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say?**** > > ** ** > > Ron **** > > ** ** > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130320/6006fa40/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 22:25:40 -0400 From: Greg Kraus Subject: Re: [Athen] Re: WCAG2 for e-texts To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks all. Greg On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Pielaet, Jon wrote: > Greg, > > The WCAG 2.0 standards were designed for web content so their strength is in bringing accessibility to web technologies like HTML\CSS Javascript and a like. Most institutions are creating e-texts that use other technologies so applying WCAG standards doesn't make much sense. > That being said, the developing ePUB standard does make use of these web technologies. As ePub brings rich web-like content to electronic books, the WCAG may become more relevant to alternate format production. > > Jennifer shared some great resources for learning about ePub and the merging of these technologies if you are interested in learning more. > > I think the core of your question has to do with setting a standard to ensure some level of accessibility for your in-house production. If this is true, and as Jennifer also suggested, the answer would depend on what formats you are producing. > > The core principles of WCAG can always be applied however. Your e-texts should be POUR: > > Perceivable > Operable > Understandable > Robust > > > Jon > > > Jon Pielaet > > Clark College > Disability Support Services > Assistive Technology and IT Accessibility Specialist > 1933 Fort Vancouver Way > Vancouver, WA 98663-3598 > (360) 992-2314 > (360) 992-2879 Fax > (360) 991-0901 Video Phone > jpielaet@clark.edu > http://www.clark.edu/dss > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 12:03 PM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 13 > > Send athen-list mailing list submissions to > athen-list@u.washington.edu > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu > > You can reach the person managing the list at > athen-list-owner@mailman1.u.washington.edu > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of athen-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: RE: ALEKS (Ken Petri) > 2. Re: WCAG2 for e-texts (Jennifer Sutton) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:00:39 -0400 > From: Ken Petri > Subject: Re: [Athen] RE: ALEKS > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Catherine, > > For clarification, there is/was interest in ALEKS at OSU but I have never met with them to discuss it. > > As for the MathML not supported in browsers argument, I don't find that valid. With MathJax I just don't think you can argue that MathML can't be rendered. You can argue it can't be read in many screen reader/browser combinations, and you'd be correct, but MathJax will render math visually in all browsers that have JavaScript enabled -- which means pretty much all browsers can render MathML, with some assistance from MathJax. > > And if you're using MathPlayer in IE, all of the major Windows screen readers will read the MathML pretty effectively. If the system were producing both the rendered MathML and a LaTex fall-back, seems to me most situations would be covered. (It is possible to get MathJax to show the TeX version of equations and it can "hint" the MathML islands with TeX equations, but I'm not sure how well this will work with a screen reader). > Oh, and MathPlayer does not seem to work at all in IE 10. So, some problems, but not enough to "wait" until there is better browser support, IMO. > > ken > > > [image: The Ohio State University] > Ken Petri, Program Director > Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for Disability Services 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 > 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax petri.1@osu.edu wac.osu.edu > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Rangin, Hadi Bargi wrote: > >> ** >> Hi Cath, >> >> I love your idea and motivation for collaboration. It is definitely >> the right way to go. >> >> I know Ken was interested in accessibility of Aleks some time ago and >> he even initiated a kind of meeting with them. I was invited to the >> meeting but I don't exactly recall what has been decided for. >> >> I guess we are not using it here in our campus but I would be glad to >> collaborate and help in any way and shape I can. >> >> Thanks, >> Hadi >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto: >> athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *Catherine M. >> Stager Kilcommons >> *Sent:* Friday, March 15, 2013 6:33 PM >> *To:* athen-list@u.washington.edu >> *Subject:* [Athen] ALEKS >> >> Hello All, >> Yes, once again the ALEKS accessibility issues are coming under >> scrutiny here on campus. >> At this point we are curious if other institutions have been putting >> pressure on McGraw-Hill to make the exam more accessible. >> >> Would other folks be interested in collaborating on a multi university >> campaign of concern, not unlike what we did with Blackboard? >> >> With the support of tools such as Poet and DIAGRAM, is there validity >> in their argument of saying that they need to wait for MathML to have more >> browser support and adoption? Should that be the only solution for making >> this assessment platform accessible? >> >> Thanks for any and all comments, >> >> Cath Stager-Kilcommons >> Assistive Technology Lab Coordinator >> Disability Services / Office of Diversity, Equity, and Community >> Engagement >> N234 Center for Community >> University of Colorado Boulder >> 303-492-4049 >> *http://DisabilityServices.Colorado.edu*> orado.edu> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> athen-list mailing list >> athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu >> http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130316/fb6c1da3/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:22:13 -0700 > From: Jennifer Sutton > Subject: Re: [Athen] WCAG2 for e-texts > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > > Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20130316145802.05dd56f8@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Dear Greg and other Athenites: > > I'm not sure I entirely understand your question. I see nothing but strengths regarding the idea of considering ebooks in light of WCAG 2. That being said, I see the term "etext" being used on this list to mean all kinds of electronic content. So perhaps I should clarify that I'd be thinking of ePub, DAISY content, and even, yes, PDF. I imagine there are portions of WCAG 2 that also apply to Word documents. > > Since I believe that the DAISY consortium, the IDPF, and the W3C seek to foster standards harmonization, I think all three seek to take each others' needs into account. > > Since I recently posted many links on this subject to the WebAIM list, I'll repost them all below my name, in case the collection may prove helpful to those on this list, too. At the top of the list, I'll add a few more related to PDF. > > Best, > Jennifer > > > PDF Techniques | Techniques for WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20-TECHS/pdf.html > > The official PDF/UA Technical Implementation Guide is here! > http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2rUuvX/duff-johnson.com/2013/03/05/the-pdfua-technical-implementation-guide-arriveth/ > > A new tool that I just saw, but I don't know anything about: > pdfGoHTML: PDF Reflow Done Right | Duff Johnson Strategy and Communications http://duff-johnson.com/2013/01/21/pdfgohtml-pdf-reflow-done-right/ > > > A link to the Web AIM thread, in which there are six posts. Two of them are mine, below: > http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=5765 > > > *** WebAIM Post 1: >>Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 20:29:32 -0800 >>To: WebAIM Discussion List >> >>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Q: accessibility for ebooks, epubs, kindles, etc. >> >> >>Greetings, WebAIM: >> >>I spent about 15 minutes with Google in order to pull together the >>following resource set about EPub 3. It's less "Benetech-centric" >>than what has been posted so far. I'm a fan of standards, not a >>specific organizational approach, so that's where I always start. >> >>I hope many will find this collection useful. >> >>Links are below my name. Numbering is for tracking, rather than to >>denote prioritization. >> >>If I've missed anything, I hope others will contribute. >> >>Jennifer >> >> >>1. Book by Matt Garrish from O'Reilly Media: >>http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025283.do >> >>2. Visit the site of the International Digital Publishing Forum >>(IDPF) which is the standards-making body for ePub: >>http://www.idpf.org >> >>3. Forums on the IDPF site: >>http://idpf.org/forums >> >>4. EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines >>http://idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/ >> >>5. EPub Check, for validation: >>http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ >> >>6. A recent thread on the Access Technology in Higher Education >>email list about accessible ePub production: >>http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/2013-February/007170.html >> >>7. Creating accessible eBooks - RNIB: >>http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/solutionsforbusiness/publishing/publishertechnical/ebooksaccessible/Pages/accessible_ebook_creation.aspx >> >>Shortened: >>http://bit.ly/12zfaPG >> >> >>8. Content on SlideShare, related to the DAISY Consortium and some >>is ePub3, as well: >>http://www.slideshare.net/daisyconsortium > > > > *** WebAIM post 2: > >>Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:44:14 -0800 >>To: WebAIM Discussion List >> >>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Q: accessibility for ebooks, epubs, kindles, etc. > > > > >>Greetings, WebAIM: >> >>I thought I'd post four more items on this subject of ebooks/ePub, >>and then, I'll stop. >> >>But I think these are valuable additions to what I posted the other day. >> >>I hope those working on HTML5, CSS, etc. will especially take note >>of the summary of the recent W3C workshop and help to foster >>standards harmonization. >> >>Links below my name. >> >>Best, >>Jennifer >> >> >>eBooks: Great Expectations - A W3C Workshop on Electronic Books and >>Open Web Platform - 11-12 February 2013 >>http://www.w3.org/2012/08/electronic-books/rapportebook.html >> >>Rich multi-media and a web of devices is driving us to a world of >>standards - Tools of Change for Publishing >>http://toc.oreilly.com/2013/02/rich-multi-media-and-a-web-of-devices-is-driving-us-to-a-world-of-standards.html >> >>EPUB 3 demo/sample files wanted: >>http://t.co/mg4VgsyVUj >> >>This article focuses on a conference held in the UK >>ebooks and accessibility; "readable with eyes, ears and fingers" | >>atis4all | Scoop.it >>http://ebookscambridge.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/ebooks-and-accessibility-readable-with-eyes-ears-and-fingers/ > > > At 04:25 AM 3/16/2013, Greg Kraus wrote: >>I've been asked recently about the appropriateness of applying WCAG2 >>to e-texts. I would appreciate any input people have on this who are >>more intimately involved with e-text production than I am. What are >>the strengths and weaknesses of it? >> >>Thanks. >> >>Greg >> >>-- >>Greg Kraus >>University IT Accessibility Coordinator >>NC State University >>919.513.4087 >>greg_kraus@ncsu.edu > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > End of athen-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 13 > ****************************************** > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 09:04:30 -0500 From: Heidi Scher Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Statements To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Love that last line, Dan!!! ;-) Have a good one! 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, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Dan Comden wrote: > Here's one. Yes, I'm a dreamer: > > "We try to be accessible in our products and services. We understand that > accessibility is a process, not an end product. This means that we adhere > to current standards toward this goal and where we fall short, we respond > to customer concerns and complaints in a timely fashion. We won't treat > accessibility as a single disability issue. We consider accessibility a > core component of usability and will include testing for it as a primary > step of our product development cycle. We don't want our employees to make > false statements about the accessibility of our products and services, and > if they are caught fudging, fibbing, or flat out lying about accessibility, > we promise to publicly mock them before cutting them loose. We are just as > cynical about VPATs as you are and because of this, we promise to use them > as little as possible and instead refer to this mission statement. We'll > include language that addresses accessibility in all our contracts with > customers. We will steal the mice from our developers on a regular and > random basis." > > > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ron Stewart wrote: > >> Good afternoon all, had an interesting request. If you could set the >> accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say?**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Ron **** >> >> ** ** >> -- >> > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130321/1679b77d/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 10:45:17 -0700 From: "foreigntype" Subject: RE: [Athen] Accessibility Statements To: "'Access Technology Higher Education Network'" Message-ID: <008701ce265b$da21a300$8e64e900$@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Great statement! Made me laugh out loud, and in deep appreciation because I know you stand behind your words, Dan. Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant & Multi-Language Alt-Media Production The Foreign Type foreigntype@gmail.com Portland OR 480-984-0034 From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Heidi Scher Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Statements Love that last line, Dan!!! ;-) Have a good one! 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, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Dan Comden wrote: Here's one. Yes, I'm a dreamer: "We try to be accessible in our products and services. We understand that accessibility is a process, not an end product. This means that we adhere to current standards toward this goal and where we fall short, we respond to customer concerns and complaints in a timely fashion. We won't treat accessibility as a single disability issue. We consider accessibility a core component of usability and will include testing for it as a primary step of our product development cycle. We don't want our employees to make false statements about the accessibility of our products and services, and if they are caught fudging, fibbing, or flat out lying about accessibility, we promise to publicly mock them before cutting them loose. We are just as cynical about VPATs as you are and because of this, we promise to use them as little as possible and instead refer to this mission statement. We'll include language that addresses accessibility in all our contracts with customers. We will steal the mice from our developers on a regular and random basis." On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ron Stewart wrote: Good afternoon all, had an interesting request. If you could set the accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say? Ron -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130321/ba3d2542/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:53:47 +0000 From: "Humbert, Joseph A" Subject: RE: [Athen] Accessibility Statements To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: <906395B08AE7B542882AC81A31B69B753031451C@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The last line comes dangerously close to contradicting an earlier statement, "We won't treat accessibility as a single disability issue"...lol Joe Humbert, Adaptive Technology and 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/ From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Heidi Scher Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Statements Love that last line, Dan!!! ;-) Have a good one! 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, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Dan Comden > wrote: Here's one. Yes, I'm a dreamer: "We try to be accessible in our products and services. We understand that accessibility is a process, not an end product. This means that we adhere to current standards toward this goal and where we fall short, we respond to customer concerns and complaints in a timely fashion. We won't treat accessibility as a single disability issue. We consider accessibility a core component of usability and will include testing for it as a primary step of our product development cycle. We don't want our employees to make false statements about the accessibility of our products and services, and if they are caught fudging, fibbing, or flat out lying about accessibility, we promise to publicly mock them before cutting them loose. We are just as cynical about VPATs as you are and because of this, we promise to use them as little as possible and instead refer to this mission statement. We'll include language that addresses accessibility in all our contracts with customers. We will steal the ! mice from our developers on a regular and random basis." On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Ron Stewart > wrote: Good afternoon all, had an interesting request. If you could set the accessibility mission statement for a company what would you say? Ron -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130321/2d57b7f5/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list End of athen-list Digest, Vol 86, Issue 17 ****************************************** -- Peace. Jean Salzer, Sr. Counselor BVI Program/Alternative Text Coordinator Student Accessibility Center UW-Milwaukee 414-229-5660, Mitchell Hall B16 What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of? ~Julia Cameron If you have peace of mind, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you do have. -Dalai Lama ******************************************** NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: This email and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this email contains any student specific data or information, these laws apply. If you are NOT the intended recepient(s) of this email, please disregard the content, delete the email message and notify the original sender. From jeano at uwm.edu Fri Apr 5 11:29:51 2013 From: jeano at uwm.edu (Jean M Salzer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Flipped Classrooms? Message-ID: <1863853594.7864.1365186591135.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Hello all, Just wondering if there has been any discussion regarding access with flipped classroom models and support for UD. We have several faculty here who are debating the prospect for classes with high D-F-W rates. I appreciate any ideas/issues, etc. -- Peace. Jean Salzer, Sr. Counselor BVI Program/Alternative Text Coordinator Student Accessibility Center UW-Milwaukee 414-229-5660, Mitchell Hall B16 What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of? ~Julia Cameron If you have peace of mind, you don't need to have anything else. If you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you do have. -Dalai Lama ******************************************** NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: This email and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this email contains any student specific data or information, these laws apply. If you are NOT the intended recepient(s) of this email, please disregard the content, delete the email message and notify the original sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sherylb at uw.edu Fri Apr 5 14:19:48 2013 From: sherylb at uw.edu (Sheryl Burgstahler) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Flipped Classrooms? In-Reply-To: <1863853594.7864.1365186591135.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> References: <1863853594.7864.1365186591135.JavaMail.root@mail03.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: <65548B58-09DF-48DA-9D05-2168B0B29210@uw.edu> Be sure they caption any videos they use. ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Apr 5, 2013, at 11:29 AM, Jean M Salzer wrote: > Hello all, > > Just wondering if there has been any discussion regarding access with flipped classroom models and support for UD. We have several faculty here who are debating the prospect for classes with high D-F-W rates. I appreciate any ideas/issues, etc. > > -- > Peace. > > Jean Salzer, Sr. Counselor > BVI Program/Alternative Text Coordinator > Student Accessibility Center > UW-Milwaukee > 414-229-5660, Mitchell Hall B16 > > What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of? ~Julia Cameron > > If you have peace of mind, > you don't need to have anything else. > If you don't have it, > it doesn't matter much > what else you do have. > -Dalai Lama > > ******************************************** > NOTICE TO RECIPIENT: This email and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be, covered by electronic communications privacy laws and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). If this email contains any student specific data or information, these laws apply. 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I have two questions: 1. is there a way for him to download a back up copy since he has the security key and can he do this directly from the Nuance website? 2. if not, can we use a department-purchased cd to install for him while he registers it with his key? Nuance tech support is a bit dicey to find anything, and I was hoping someone on our list might have encountered something similar and could help me point him in the right direction. Thanks in advance, Wink Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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More details are available at http://www.icdri.org/donations.htm From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Laurie Vasquez Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 4:25 PM To: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] For your information - Accessibility Champion I was just made aware of this sad news: http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/accessibility-loses-a-great-champion/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbailey at uoregon.edu Tue Apr 9 13:24:31 2013 From: jbailey at uoregon.edu (James Bailey) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] captioning chinese language video Message-ID: Any recommendations on captioning a Chinese language video? Thanks, James James Bailey M.S. Adaptive Tech Coordinator University of Oregon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ea at emptech.info Tue Apr 9 13:38:48 2013 From: ea at emptech.info (E.A.Draffan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] captioning chinese language video In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004c01ce3562$3d094d50$b71be7f0$@emptech.info> I am not sure how helpful this is link is for you in your situation http://www.fluentin3months.com/subtitles/ but I was fascinated by the video and the way the individuals were dealing with the different languages including Chinese. Best wishes E.A. Mrs E.A. Draffan WAIS, ECS , University of Southampton Tel +44 (0)23 8059 7246 Mobile +44 (0)7976 289103 http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk http://www.emptech.info From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of James Bailey Sent: 09 April 2013 21:25 To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] captioning chinese language video Any recommendations on captioning a Chinese language video? Thanks, James James Bailey M.S. Adaptive Tech Coordinator University of Oregon From Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu Wed Apr 10 05:59:17 2013 From: Kenneth.Elkind at umb.edu (Kenneth Elkind) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] re:. Dragon help! Message-ID: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C01197F70@BN1PRD0111MB506.prod.exchangelabs.com> You may want to talk to the sales rep that handles higher education in your area. I found them quite useful they may be able to steer you in the right direction. At least the salesperson might be able to link you to the tech support that handles higher education accounts, this would bypass the retail support. I'm a little pessimistic that they would provide you with old software. Kenneth Elkind Assistive Technology Specialist (617) 287- 5243 Kenneth.elkind@umb.edu Skype User Number: adaptiveumb Adaptive Computer Lab Maximizing Learning Potential Learn about the Adaptive Computer Lab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Wed Apr 10 06:44:01 2013 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] re:. Dragon help! In-Reply-To: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C01197F70@BN1PRD0111MB506.prod.exchangelabs.com> References: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C01197F70@BN1PRD0111MB506.prod.exchangelabs.com> Message-ID: Hi Kenneth, I was asking on behalf of a student who lost his cd during a move. He wanted us to use the department cd to install on his personal hard drive. I said Nuance would help him find a back up copy based on his registered security key. I know they would provide a back up copy (for a fee) for a licensed user. It's just so hard to get through the firewall Nuance puts up against the post-sales problems that arise. They have great front-end support. After the sale? An exercise in frustration unless you can find a way past the fire-wall to ask and get answers to your questions. Personally. some years ago I had my hard drive stolen. My last version of DNS was done via a download & I did not have a back up on CD (I learned an important lesson on this one!), and I was told repeatedly that I needed to uninstall DNS from the previous computer before reinstalling with the same security key. I kept explaining how much I would love to uninstall after I got my hands off the throat of the creep who stole my bag off the back of my wheelchair but I really couldn't perform that function. It is seriously frustrating to fight through layers to find this sort of help. Makes me so very grateful for our knowledgeable colleagues on this list who have contacts and links and can help sort through things such as this dilemma. Thanks for your input & information!! Wink On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Kenneth Elkind wrote: > You may want to talk to the sales rep that handles higher education in > your area. I found them quite useful they may be able to steer you in the > right direction. At least the salesperson might be able to link you to the > tech support that handles higher education accounts, this would bypass the > retail support.**** > > ** ** > > I'm a little pessimistic that they would provide you with old software.*** > * > > ** ** > > Kenneth Elkind**** > > Assistive Technology Specialist**** > > (617) 287- 5243**** > > Kenneth.elkind@umb.edu**** > > Skype User Number: adaptiveumb**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *Adaptive Computer Lab* > > *Maximizing Learning Potential* > > * * > > *Learn about the Adaptive Computer Lab > * > > * * > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From edward at ngtvoice.com Thu Apr 11 06:34:43 2013 From: edward at ngtvoice.com (Ed. Rosenthal) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] re:. Dragon help! In-Reply-To: References: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C01197F70@BN1PRD0111MB506.prod.exchangelabs.com> Message-ID: <00e801ce36b9$54d49270$fe7db750$@ngtvoice.com> I'm coming in late on this thread, however if the student still has the Dragon application installed to his PC the install key is listed both on the About splash screen from the help file and as an item in the registry. Depending on the version of the software if they need to replace the disc itself Nuance should be able to do this directly, the last time I did this the cost was $9.00. -ed. Edward S. Rosenthal President and CEO Next Generation Technologies, Inc. Lynnwood, Wa. www.ngtvoice.com From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:44 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] re:. Dragon help! Hi Kenneth, I was asking on behalf of a student who lost his cd during a move. He wanted us to use the department cd to install on his personal hard drive. I said Nuance would help him find a back up copy based on his registered security key. I know they would provide a back up copy (for a fee) for a licensed user. It's just so hard to get through the firewall Nuance puts up against the post-sales problems that arise. They have great front-end support. After the sale? An exercise in frustration unless you can find a way past the fire-wall to ask and get answers to your questions. Personally. some years ago I had my hard drive stolen. My last version of DNS was done via a download & I did not have a back up on CD (I learned an important lesson on this one!), and I was told repeatedly that I needed to uninstall DNS from the previous computer before reinstalling with the same security key. I kept explaining how much I would love to uninstall after I got my hands off the throat of the creep who stole my bag off the back of my wheelchair but I really couldn't perform that function. It is seriously frustrating to fight through layers to find this sort of help. Makes me so very grateful for our knowledgeable colleagues on this list who have contacts and links and can help sort through things such as this dilemma. Thanks for your input & information!! Wink On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Kenneth Elkind wrote: You may want to talk to the sales rep that handles higher education in your area. I found them quite useful they may be able to steer you in the right direction. At least the salesperson might be able to link you to the tech support that handles higher education accounts, this would bypass the retail support. I'm a little pessimistic that they would provide you with old software. Kenneth Elkind Assistive Technology Specialist (617) 287- 5243 Kenneth.elkind@umb.edu Skype User Number: adaptiveumb Adaptive Computer Lab Maximizing Learning Potential Learn about the Adaptive Computer Lab _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu Apr 11 07:17:00 2013 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] re:. Dragon help! In-Reply-To: <00e801ce36b9$54d49270$fe7db750$@ngtvoice.com> References: <64368B1DFC2F5D4A86AFF5CEAFE2684C01197F70@BN1PRD0111MB506.prod.exchangelabs.com> <00e801ce36b9$54d49270$fe7db750$@ngtvoice.com> Message-ID: I figured that, Ed. Thanks. The student sold his computer, wiped the drive, bought a new tower, moved, then couldn't find the install disc. He logged in on my computer to Nuance and his install key popped right up. He wanted me to install our dept. copy on his computer (actually, the question was could he take our cd home & install on his computer). I suggested your answer --it happened to me some years ago when my HD was stolen and I couldn't uninstall the software before reloading. I downloaded a replacement then ordered a back up cd. I gave the student the contact info for tech support so he could take care of this himself. Appreciate your comments. Always welcome!! Wink On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Ed. Rosenthal wrote: > I'm coming in late on this thread, however if the student still has the > Dragon application installed to his PC the install key is listed both on > the About splash screen from the help file and as an item in the registry. > Depending on the version of the software if they need to replace the disc > itself Nuance should be able to do this directly, the last time I did this > the cost was $9.00. -ed.**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Edward S. Rosenthal**** > > President and CEO**** > > Next Generation Technologies, Inc.**** > > Lynnwood, Wa.**** > > www.ngtvoice.com **** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto: > athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *Wink Harner > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:44 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] re:. Dragon help!**** > > ** ** > > Hi Kenneth, > > I was asking on behalf of a student who lost his cd during a move. He > wanted us to use the department cd to install on his personal hard drive. I > said Nuance would help him find a back up copy based on his registered > security key. I know they would provide a back up copy (for a fee) for a > licensed user. It's just so hard to get through the firewall Nuance puts up > against the post-sales problems that arise. They have great front-end > support. After the sale? An exercise in frustration unless you can find a > way past the fire-wall to ask and get answers to your questions. > Personally. some years ago I had my hard drive stolen. My last version of > DNS was done via a download & I did not have a back up on CD (I learned an > important lesson on this one!), and I was told repeatedly that I needed to > uninstall DNS from the previous computer before reinstalling with the same > security key. I kept explaining how much I would love to uninstall after I > got my hands off the throat of the creep who stole my bag off the back of > my wheelchair but I really couldn't perform that function. It is seriously > frustrating to fight through layers to find this sort of help. **** > > Makes me so very grateful for our knowledgeable colleagues on this list > who have contacts and links and can help sort through things such as this > dilemma. > > Thanks for your input & information!!**** > > Wink**** > > ** ** > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Kenneth Elkind > wrote:**** > > You may want to talk to the sales rep that handles higher education in > your area. I found them quite useful they may be able to steer you in the > right direction. At least the salesperson might be able to link you to the > tech support that handles higher education accounts, this would bypass the > retail support.**** > > **** > > I'm a little pessimistic that they would provide you with old software.*** > * > > **** > > Kenneth Elkind**** > > Assistive Technology Specialist**** > > (617) 287- 5243**** > > Kenneth.elkind@umb.edu**** > > Skype User Number: adaptiveumb**** > > **** > > **** > > *Adaptive Computer Lab***** > > *Maximizing Learning Potential***** > > * ***** > > *Learn about the Adaptive Computer Lab > ***** > > * ***** > > **** > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list**** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Videos of screen readers using ARIA, updated http://zomigi.com/blog/videos-of-screen-readers-using-aria-updated/ Web Accessibility - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEM9Fn9aOG8 [not really about coding, but might be useful.] How Assistive Technology Works Video Demonstrations - Information & Communication Services - The University of Dundee http://www.dundee.ac.uk/ics/services/web/accessibility/howassistivetechnologyworksvideodemonstratio/ Here's a Youtube series that's new to me. There are 16 videos. I wonder if anyone's vetted the series for accuracy/currentness: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL002E5D5A673D760E Best, Jennifer At 08:21 AM 4/12/2013, you wrote: >Content-Language: en-US >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="_000_E8AC58F5BFA37446AA2067BFDAE266FDC643BDadccmbx02_" > >Hello All, > > > >I am looking for a collection of short and >concise videos on coding various accessible web >elements. An example might be demonstrating coding an accessible data table. > > > >Our CIS department is amenable to assigning >these videos in their first-year web classes. >These need to be fairly freestanding as their >won?t be any instruction included. The viewer is >learning to code web pages, but knows little or nothing about accessibility. > > > >My initial proposal was that we make the videos. >I have been asked to make sure that they don?t >already exist and that?s what I am doing now. I >have searched youtube, but I have not found >anything that I think would work. Please excuse cross postings. > > > >Thanks, > > > >James > > > >James Bailey M.S. > >Adaptive Tech Coordinator > >University of Oregon > > >_______________________________________________ >athen-list mailing list >athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu >http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From pratikp1 at gmail.com Mon Apr 15 05:15:15 2013 From: pratikp1 at gmail.com (Pratik Patel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: marking gaad on campus In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00bf01ce39d2$e34ad250$a9e076f0$@gmail.com> I'm forwarding this on behalf of my good Friend Jennison. Pratik Patel Founder and CEO, EZFire T: 718-928-5529 M: 718-249-7019 E: ppatel@ezfire.net (or pratikp1@gmail.com) Follow me on Twitter: @ppatel Follow me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pratik-patel/9/985/882 Skype: Patel.pratik -----Original Message----- From: Jennison Asuncion [mailto:JAsuncion@dawsoncollege.qc.ca] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 7:57 AM To: pratikp1@gmail.com Subject: marking gaad on campus Pratik, Could you forward this message to the ATHEN e-mail list on my behalf while I await membership approval? The second Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) http://www.globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org will take place on May 9. The purpose of the day is to raise basic awareness by getting people to talk, think and learn about digital (web, software, mobile, etc.) accessibility and users with different disabilities. The target audience of GAAD is anyone who is involved in building, shaping, funding and influencing technology and its use. In addition to your campus' IT department, this could include your centers of instructional/learning technology, along with actual faculties such as computer science, web/multimedia design and other technology disciplines (both teachers and students). Joe Devon, who inspired GAAD and I, hope colleges and universities will consider participating and help raise the profile of issues of digital accessibility on your campuses. One idea would be to hold an hour or more of demos of adaptive technology. Why not show how easy (or difficult) it is to use your public websites or other campus learning technology from an accessibility perspective. If you are able to get actual end-user students or employees with disabilities to discuss their technology experiences, even better. If you have an institutional policy governing technology accessibility, why not take the opportunity of May 9 to educate/remind the campus community on it and their role in its success. If you decide to hold a GAAD event, please let Joe and I know so we can promote and bring visibility to your activity on our permanent GAAD website. Also, please get in touch if you want to discuss your idea or wish to receive background text you can use. Reach us at globala11yawarenessday@gmail.com. Jennison Jennison Mark Asuncion Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network http://www.adaptech.org LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison Follow me on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/jennison Accessibility Camp Toronto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeP5Kl4GDgA From johumber at iupui.edu Mon Apr 15 05:51:11 2013 From: johumber at iupui.edu (Humbert, Joseph A) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] E-learning Authoring Software that Produces Accessible Content Message-ID: <906395B08AE7B542882AC81A31B69B753F51CE88@IU-MSSG-MBX110.ads.iu.edu> Hi All, Indiana University has been ramping up the number of online courses available to students as part of the university's IU Online initiative (http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/23061.html). Due to this fact, our group has been receiving more and more requests for techniques, guidelines, resources, etc. for creating accessible online course content. Therefore, we have begun collaborating with multiple groups to assess the current accessibility of IU's online course offerings as well as providing guidance to instructors, departments, trainers, and content creators. One of the questions that has come up was, "are there e-learning authoring software platforms out there that produce accessible content?" Some of the many software packages currently being used or researched are SoftChalk, Raptivity, Articulate Storyline, Adobe Presenter 8, etc. We have been specifically asked for recommendations for software packages because many of the content creators will be professors who have limited programming experience. Does anyone have direct experience with these software packages or other software that produces accessible e-learning content? Thank you for any information you can provide. Sincerely, Brian Richwine Joe Humbert brichwin@indiana.edu johumber@iupui.edu Office 812-856-2757 Office 317-274-4378 P.S. 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The goal of this survey is to determine how cameras and tactile graphics are currently used by blind and low vision adults, and what types of feedback are most helpful in guiding users to scan the QR codes that are placed on the graphics. This survey is intended to be completed by adults 18 and over who identify as low vision or blind. If you complete the survey and provide contact information, you will be entered in a lottery to win one of multiple $25 Amazon gift cards. We would appreciate it if you would forward this on to people who might have valuable input. If you would be willing to fill out the survey, which should take 15-20 minutes, please follow the link below: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/milnel2/191002 Thanks, Catherine Baker, Graduate Student at the University of Washington and Lauren Milne, Graduate Student at the University of Washington You may contact Professor Richard Ladner at (206) 543-9347 if you have any questions or if you want to learn more about this research. You may also contact the University of Washington Human Subjects Division at (206) 543-0098 if you have any questions about your rights as a subject. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hirschma at uwm.edu Mon Apr 15 13:15:23 2013 From: hirschma at uwm.edu (hirschma@uwm.edu) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms In-Reply-To: <323244142.150141.1366056875063.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: <1458256690.150158.1366056923206.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Does anyone have updated information regarding accessible webinar/teleconference platforms? Who has the best in terms of usability and accessibility? Are there differences in cost for accessibility features? Thanks! Aura Hirschman -- "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" (for more information and resources - http://access-ed.r2d2.uwm.edu/) Aura M. Hirschman, MS, CRC Outreach and Training Coordinator R2D2 Center, Enderis Hall, Room 135 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53211-0413 (414) 229-1139 Fax (414) 229-6843 TTY (414) 229-5628 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Mon Apr 15 14:20:11 2013 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms In-Reply-To: <1458256690.150158.1366056923206.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> References: <323244142.150141.1366056875063.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> <1458256690.150158.1366056923206.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: Aura, Our campus uses Adobe Connect. I will not say it is the most accessible solution, but we have documented means to make it generally usable for keyboard and screen reader users, for both host/presenter and attendee. Our documentation is here (it evolves): http://ocio.osu.edu/elearning/services/tools/carmenconnect/accessibility/ Best, ken [image: The Ohio State University] Ken Petri, Program Director Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for Disability Services 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax petri.1@osu.edu wac.osu.edu On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, wrote: > Does anyone have updated information regarding accessible > webinar/teleconference platforms? Who has the best in terms of usability > and accessibility? Are there differences in cost for accessibility > features? Thanks! > > Aura Hirschman > > -- > "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" > > (for more information and resources - http://access-ed.r2d2.uwm.edu/) > > Aura M. Hirschman, MS, CRC > Outreach and Training Coordinator > R2D2 Center, Enderis Hall, Room 135 > University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee > P.O. Box 413 > Milwaukee, WI 53211-0413 > > (414) 229-1139 > Fax (414) 229-6843 > TTY (414) 229-5628 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From howard.kramer at Colorado.EDU Mon Apr 15 14:44:32 2013 From: howard.kramer at Colorado.EDU (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms In-Reply-To: References: <323244142.150141.1366056875063.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> <1458256690.150158.1366056923206.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> Message-ID: <560EFE0644E31749BAA9887549F592B3C164013A73@EXC4.ad.colorado.edu> Hi Ken, Would you say that "generally usable" for Adobe Connect carries over to viewing recorded content? -Howard From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Petri Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 3:20 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms Aura, Our campus uses Adobe Connect. I will not say it is the most accessible solution, but we have documented means to make it generally usable for keyboard and screen reader users, for both host/presenter and attendee. Our documentation is here (it evolves): http://ocio.osu.edu/elearning/services/tools/carmenconnect/accessibility/ Best, ken [http://osu.edu/assets/site/images/logos/osu-emailsig.png] Ken Petri, Program Director Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for Disability Services 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax petri.1@osu.edu wac.osu.edu On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, > wrote: Does anyone have updated information regarding accessible webinar/teleconference platforms? Who has the best in terms of usability and accessibility? Are there differences in cost for accessibility features? Thanks! Aura Hirschman -- "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" (for more information and resources - http://access-ed.r2d2.uwm.edu/) Aura M. Hirschman, MS, CRC Outreach and Training Coordinator R2D2 Center, Enderis Hall, Room 135 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53211-0413 (414) 229-1139 Fax (414) 229-6843 TTY (414) 229-5628 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From petri.1 at osu.edu Mon Apr 15 18:45:38 2013 From: petri.1 at osu.edu (Ken Petri) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms In-Reply-To: <560EFE0644E31749BAA9887549F592B3C164013A73@EXC4.ad.colorado.edu> References: <323244142.150141.1366056875063.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> <1458256690.150158.1366056923206.JavaMail.root@mail17.pantherlink.uwm.edu> <560EFE0644E31749BAA9887549F592B3C164013A73@EXC4.ad.colorado.edu> Message-ID: >From my understanding, the recorded sessions are handled differently. You're not viewing those in the regular Connect player but in a Flash or MP4 movie that is produced by the system afterward. Since that is the case, you have a lot of options for what to do. You could, for example, take the outputs and use, say, JW Player as the viewer. Or maybe the Connect-produced videos are delivered in a way that is accessible. I've never tried them, so I don't know. One issue will be with the captioning pod. If used, the pod is just recorded in a screen capture sort of way, along with the presentation. So you don't have a closed caption. You have an always on, open caption. Not ideal but serviceable. k [image: The Ohio State University] Ken Petri, Program Director Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for Disability Services 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax petri.1@osu.edu wac.osu.edu On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Howard Kramer wrote: > Hi Ken,**** > > ** ** > > Would you say that ?generally usable? for Adobe Connect carries over to > viewing recorded content?**** > > ** ** > > -Howard**** > > ** ** > > *From:* athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto: > athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] *On Behalf Of *Ken Petri > *Sent:* Monday, April 15, 2013 3:20 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Accessible Webinar Platforms**** > > ** ** > > Aura,**** > > Our campus uses Adobe Connect. I will not say it is the most accessible > solution, but we have documented means to make it generally usable for > keyboard and screen reader users, for both host/presenter and attendee. Our > documentation is here (it evolves): > http://ocio.osu.edu/elearning/services/tools/carmenconnect/accessibility/* > *** > > Best, > ken**** > > ** ** > > > **** > > ** ** > > [image: The Ohio State University] > *Ken Petri*, Program Director > Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for > Disability Services > 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 > 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax > *petri.1@osu.edu* *wac.osu.edu* *** > * > > ** ** > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:15 PM, wrote:**** > > Does anyone have updated information regarding accessible > webinar/teleconference platforms? Who has the best in terms of usability > and accessibility? Are there differences in cost for accessibility > features? Thanks!**** > > ** ** > > Aura Hirschman > > -- **** > > "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" > > (for more information and resources - http://access-ed.r2d2.uwm.edu/) > > Aura M. Hirschman, MS, CRC > Outreach and Training Coordinator > R2D2 Center, Enderis Hall, Room 135 > University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee > P.O. Box 413 > Milwaukee, WI 53211-0413 > > (414) 229-1139 > Fax (414) 229-6843 > TTY (414) 229-5628 > > > **** > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list**** > > ** ** > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Contact me directly by email or in a reply to the list, whichever you are comfortable with. Since our purchase procedure is on-going I cannot discuss the details of our selection, rankings, or other similar information, but I would be happy to talk about some of our findings on a phone call or in a direct email. Thanks, ken [image: The Ohio State University] Ken Petri, Program Director Web Accessibility Center, ADA Coordinator's Office and Office for Disability Services 102D Pomerene Hall | 1760 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 614-292-1760 Office | 614-218-1499 Mobile | 614-292-4190 Fax petri.1@osu.edu wac.osu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Wed Apr 17 13:14:37 2013 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] FYI: Cynthia Waddell Message-ID: <326070168A3D4038A7FE2C8121E28B45@htctu.fhda.edu> Some of you might want to know the sad news that Cynthia Waddell passed away a few days ago. http://lflegal.com/2013/04/waddell/ "Cynthia Waddell, a pioneer in developing and advocating for legal theories to support website accessibility for people with disabilities, died on April 3, 2013. In 1998, two years before the first Structured Negotiations web accessibility settlement, eight years before the Target web litigation was filed, and long before the U.S. Department of Justice stated its intention to issue web accessibility regulations, Cynthia wrote an article explaining the legal basis for universal design in the development of webpages. Before Twitter and its ubiquitous #a11y and #ux hashtags, Cynthia was an international advocate for an inclusive web, open to all." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The HTCTU provides leadership, training, and support to the California Community Colleges in using technology to promote the success of students with disabilities. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." ?Abraham Lincoln -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsuttondc at gmail.com Thu Apr 18 10:22:30 2013 From: jsuttondc at gmail.com (Jennifer Sutton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:11 2018 Subject: [Athen] Survey on making text easier to read Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20130418101921.01f8e148@gmail.com> ATHEN folks: Sorry for any cross-posting. I thought some of you might be interested in helping to circulate this survey. >Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:18:02 -0500 >From: "Shawn Henry (uiAccess projects)" >Subject: Survey on making text easier to read >Hello, > >Would you be willing to take a few minutes to help a research >project for people with low vision, dyslexia, and other conditions, >including aging? > >If so, would you *send this information to anyone you know who might >be able to help with research on making text easier to read*, including: > >1. People with low vision, dyslexia, or any other condition that >impacts reading -- specifically, people who can see and can read, >but have difficulty reading normally-formatted text, and need to >change the way text is displayed in order to read effectively. >*or* >2. Accessibility specialists, occupational therapists, vocational >rehab providers, and others who understand how people need to >customize text display in order to read effectively. > >*If you are either 1 or 2 above*, would you be willing to fill out a >survey that will help people understand the need to make text easier to read? > >It takes about 15-20 minutes to complete one part of the survey. The >survey is online at: > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/text1304 > >Please complete the survey by *Tuesday 30 April 2013*, if possible >(or even right now before you forget :-). > >If you have any questions, feel free to contact me: > Shawn Henry > projects@uiAccess.com > +1-617-395-7664 > >Thank you so very much for your help! > >Sincerely, >~Shawn > > >------------------ >Shawn Lawton Henry >+1- 617- 395- 7664 >projects@uiAccess.com >http://www.tader.info/ >www.uiAccess.com/profile.html From ron at ahead.org Fri Apr 19 03:34:54 2013 From: ron at ahead.org (Ron Stewart) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: PARCC Releases Draft Accommodations Manual For Public Comment In-Reply-To: <6ec66aae0a384a1c8fe6ee7e670d291f@BLUPR04MB088.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> References: <1113113561085.1101326098121.46903.6.29223033@scheduler.constantcontact.com> <6ec66aae0a384a1c8fe6ee7e670d291f@BLUPR04MB088.namprd04.prod.outlook.com> Message-ID: <02df01ce3ce9$880182d0$98048870$@ahead.org> Further development in the High Stakes Testing world Ron Stewart PARCC Logo PARCC Releases Draft Accommodations Manual For Public Comment WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 18, 2013 - The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) today released for public comment a draft of the full accommodations manual for the assessments currently being developed by the 22-state consortium. The draft PARCC Accommodations Manual is a comprehensive policy document that will support local educators in the selection, administration and evaluation of accommodations for the assessment of students with disabilities and English learners on the PARCC End-of-Year, Performance-Based and optional Mid-Year assessment components. The release of the manual is an important step in meeting PARCC's commitment to accessibility for all students, especially students with disabilities (SWD) and English learners (EL). Trinell Bowman, who chairs the PARCC Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Operational Working Group, emphasized that these proposed accommodations represent two years of work by PARCC states to ensure that all students have equitable access to the PARCC assessments. "The draft manual represents significant work to drive towards consensus among PARCC states. The states are to be commended for taking this important step," said Bowman, Program Manager with the Maryland State Department of Education. In addition to accommodations for students with disabilities and English learners, the manual also describes embedded supports and accessibility features that will be available to all students. The majority of the proposed accommodations policies are currently in use across PARCC states. What is different from many current state accommodations manuals is that the draft PARCC Accommodations Manual includes not only proposed participation and accommodations policies for SWD and ELs, but also information about tools that will be provided through PARCC's computer-based assessment delivery system for all students to optimize their performance on the assessments. By assessing students on computers, PARCC states will now have the opportunity to provide all students with tools they frequently use in the classroom and daily life that were once provided only as accommodations for SWD and ELs (e.g. highlighters and enlarged font). "It is exciting that some features that are considered accommodations by many states today will now shift to embedded supports or accessibility features that are available to all students. This shift in policy represents PARCC's continued commitment to Universal Design principles for assessment," said Dan Wiener, Administrator of Inclusive Assessment at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and Chair of the PARCC Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Technical Working Group, comprised of national experts. In addition to state assessment and content experts, PARCC collaborated on the development of the manual with nationally recognized experts who serve on the PARCC Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Technical Working Group and with the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). "A strong and intensive effort has been made to ensure that the draft PARCC Accommodations Manual is based on quality research, input from the states, feedback from technical experts, and public comment on earlier draft policies. The National Center on Educational Outcomes is pleased to support PARCC's work by synthesizing feedback from the public to PARCC," said Martha Thurlow, Director of NCEO and a member of PARCC Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Technical Working Group. "The public comment period is vital to make sure that parents and educators can weigh in to make sure we get it right for all students." PARCC also reached out to experts in drafting the EL section of the manual. WestEd Senior Research Associate Dr. Lynn Shafer Willner, an experienced technical writer of state EL accommodation guidelines, drafted the initial EL policy with input from several PARCC state experts. Charlene Rivera, Research Professor and Executive Director of the George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education and a member of PARCC Accessibility, Accommodations, and Fairness Technical Working Group said, "This policy manual recommends accessibility features that address ELs' level of English language proficiency and acknowledges other background features of ELs. Creation of the manual is a critical first step for ensuring that ELs have equitable access to the content of PARCC assessments." The public review period allows for feedback from a wide group of stakeholders, including K-12 educators, parents, curriculum and assessment experts and interest groups. From April 18 through May 13, 2013, the draft PARCC Accommodations Manual and a feedback survey will be posted on the PARCC website for the public to provide feedback, along with a set of Frequently Asked Questions (http://www.parcconline.org/parcc-draft-accommodations-manual ). Feedback will be reviewed by PARCC state leads, working group members and other national experts and revisions will be made accordingly. On January 16, 2013, PARCC released two draft accommodations policies for public comment - the reading access accommodation and the calculator use accommodation. The public comment period for those two policies closed on February 4, 2013. On February 8, 2013, PARCC released the draft accommodations policy for writing access. The public comment period for that policy closed on February 20, 2013. PARCC received over 3,500 individual surveys and over 20 pieces of written feedback from advocacy organizations and stakeholder groups, all of which helped to inform the development of the full draft manual. The release of the full draft manual includes these policies that PARCC previously released for early comment and feedback, as well as additional proposed policies released now for public comment for the first time. The public is invited to comment on the entire draft manual. For more information or to view the policies,visit http://www.parcconline.org . Follow the consortium on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PARCCPlace . Media Contact: Chad Colby (202) 419-1570, ccolby@achieve.org Connect with PARCC Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter PARCC is an alliance of states working together to develop common assessments serving nearly 24 million students. PARCC's work is funded through a four-year, $185 million dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Partners include over 700 higher education institutions and systems representing hundreds of campuses across the country that will help develop the high school component of the new assessment - and then put it to good use as an indicator of student readiness. PARCC is led by its member states and managed by Achieve, a non-profit group with a 17-year track record of working with states to improve student achievement by aligning K-12 education policies with the expectations of employers and the postsecondary community. PARCC's ultimate goal is to make sure all students graduate from high school college- and career-ready. For more information, visit www.parcconline.org . 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The articles include: "EASI and ATHEN are collaborating to breathe a second life into their longstanding e-journals" "Seeking Predictors of Web Accessibility in U.S. Higher Education Institutions" "KY Math Etext Project" "Accessible Voting in 2012" --------------------- Volume XIII Number 1, April 2013 http://itd.athenpro.org/volume13/number1 Watch the EASI and ATHEN Web sites for the call for papers to be posted by early May . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . It's never too late to become what you might have been. George Eliot Once you choose hope, anything's possible. Christopher Reeve Norman Coombs norm.coombs@gmail.com Making Online Teaching Accessible: Inclusive Course Design for Students with Disabilities by Norman Coombs published by Jossey-Bass Oct 10,2010 http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470499044.html From info at karlencommunications.com Tue Apr 23 03:55:20 2013 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible OCR for Mac Message-ID: <007b01ce4011$0c9b9e70$25d2db50$@karlencommunications.com> I have a client who needs an accessible OCR tool for the mac OS that is usable with VoiceOver. Any suggestions? Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Jennifer From Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu Thu Apr 25 08:21:59 2013 From: Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu (Cassandra L. Tex) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Math Accessibility - Again.... Message-ID: Hi All, We have instructional designers who are designing a Statistics course that will be completely online through our LMS (Moodle). They understand that the course needs to be accessible, and I?ve told them about the process for making math accessible (well-structured Word doc, equations entered with MathType, publish to MathPage with MathML and IE behavior). They have some concerns: 1. They recommend that folks use FireFox, not IE. 2. The folks with Mac?s don?t have an IE option. Their thought is to provide accessible PDF files with detailed (spoken math language) alt text for the equation gifs. This option doesn?t seem desirable to me because they are not experts in math/statistics and will need the instructor to type out the spoken math of each equation. My thought is to provide accessible PDF files with less detailed alt text for equation gifs. In addition, they can provide the files produced after publishing to MathPage. Essentially they would be providing two versions of the document. I?ve read a little bit about MathJax, but it?s teetering on the edge of my expertise. 1. Is MathJax simply code that is put at the beginning of an HTML document? 2. What role does entering equations into a Word document with MathType play in using MathJax (does that question even make sense?) It seems that with MathJax, only one document needs to be provided. For those using IE and MathPlayer, the experience will be as if Word and MathType were used (i.e., the equations will be able to be read). For those using other browsers, the equations will display correctly. My ultimate question?.HOW does one ?use? 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Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 greg_kraus@ncsu.edu On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Cassandra L. Tex wrote: > Hi All, > > We have instructional designers who are designing a Statistics course that > will be completely online through our LMS (Moodle). They understand that > the course needs to be accessible, and I?ve told them about the process for > making math accessible (well-structured Word doc, equations entered with > MathType, publish to MathPage with MathML and IE behavior). > > > > They have some concerns: > > 1. They recommend that folks use FireFox, not IE. > > 2. The folks with Mac?s don?t have an IE option. > > > > Their thought is to provide accessible PDF files with detailed (spoken math > language) alt text for the equation gifs. This option doesn?t seem > desirable to me because they are not experts in math/statistics and will > need the instructor to type out the spoken math of each equation. > > > > My thought is to provide accessible PDF files with less detailed alt text > for equation gifs. In addition, they can provide the files produced after > publishing to MathPage. Essentially they would be providing two versions of > the document. > > > > I?ve read a little bit about MathJax, but it?s teetering on the edge of my > expertise. > > 1. Is MathJax simply code that is put at the beginning of an HTML > document? > > 2. What role does entering equations into a Word document with > MathType play in using MathJax (does that question even make sense?) > > > > It seems that with MathJax, only one document needs to be provided. For > those using IE and MathPlayer, the experience will be as if Word and > MathType were used (i.e., the equations will be able to be read). For those > using other browsers, the equations will display correctly. > > > > My ultimate question?.HOW does one ?use? MathJax and get to a document that > displays correctly across browsers and works with IE/MathPlayer to speak the > equations with the appropriate AT so that only one document needs to be > provided? > > > > I hope this question makes sense! > > > > Thanks! > > Cassandra > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From MeganShadrick at MissouriState.edu Thu Apr 25 12:19:21 2013 From: MeganShadrick at MissouriState.edu (Shadrick, Megan E) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] institutional policy for purchasing technology Message-ID: With there always being the "next big thing" in educational technology and learning platforms; I know I am not the only one struggling to make sure the products being purchased are accessible. Does anyone have a solid institutional policy or procedure for the purchasing of technology that they would be willing to share? Thank you so much Megan Shadrick M.A., M.S., COMS Associate Director Disability Resource Center-Access Technology Center Missouri State University meganshadrick@missouristate.edu http://www.missouristate.edu/atc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hunziker at email.arizona.edu Thu Apr 25 12:25:13 2013 From: hunziker at email.arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] RE: institutional policy for purchasing technology In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20C7E36CF6580646B9BAD516583109F61C28041F@Pirates.catnet.arizona.edu> Please reply to the list - we're in the process of working on this type of information as well and any information / resources would be appreciated! Thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker Coordinator, Technology Access Disability Resource Center 520-626-9409 hunziker@email.arizona.edu From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Shadrick, Megan E Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:19 PM To: athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] institutional policy for purchasing technology With there always being the "next big thing" in educational technology and learning platforms; I know I am not the only one struggling to make sure the products being purchased are accessible. Does anyone have a solid institutional policy or procedure for the purchasing of technology that they would be willing to share? Thank you so much Megan Shadrick M.A., M.S., COMS Associate Director Disability Resource Center-Access Technology Center Missouri State University meganshadrick@missouristate.edu http://www.missouristate.edu/atc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sherylb at uw.edu Thu Apr 25 13:10:37 2013 From: sherylb at uw.edu (Sheryl Burgstahler) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] RE: institutional policy for purchasing technology In-Reply-To: <20C7E36CF6580646B9BAD516583109F61C28041F@Pirates.catnet.arizona.edu> References: <20C7E36CF6580646B9BAD516583109F61C28041F@Pirates.catnet.arizona.edu> Message-ID: A huge challenge in all of this is to get accessibility included in the purchasing process, when in many categories there is NO product that is reasonably accessible. Anyone have some wording to get around that issue? Sheryl ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) wrote: > Please reply to the list ? we?re in the process of working on this type of information as well and any information / resources would be appreciated! > > Thanks! > > Dawn > > ~~ > Dawn Hunziker > Coordinator, Technology Access > > Disability Resource Center > 520-626-9409 > hunziker@email.arizona.edu > > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Shadrick, Megan E > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:19 PM > To: athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] institutional policy for purchasing technology > > With there always being the ?next big thing? in educational technology and learning platforms; I know I am not the only one struggling to make sure the products being purchased are accessible. Does anyone have a solid institutional policy or procedure for the purchasing of technology that they would be willing to share? > Thank you so much > Megan Shadrick M.A., M.S., COMS > Associate Director > Disability Resource Center-Access Technology Center > Missouri State University > meganshadrick@missouristate.edu > http://www.missouristate.edu/atc > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jongund at illinois.edu Thu Apr 25 13:46:18 2013 From: jongund at illinois.edu (Gunderson, Jon R) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] RE: institutional policy for purchasing technology In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <46739F12637CC94E82F75FF874E4A14715EF6888@CITESMBX6.ad.uillinois.edu> The RFP language is an important first step for institutions in taking responsibility for accessibility of the resources they purchase. >From my experience the practical aspects of RFPs that include accessibility language have had little impact on the accessibility of purchased products: 1. Vendors responding to the RFP are equally inaccessible, so accessibility does not become a purchasing factor (most common) 2. People making purchasing decisions have little knowledge of accessibility and therefore accept vendor claims without and validation 3. Nobody in the purchasing process has responsibility for verifying conformance with the accessibility requirements in the RFP 4. Testing for accessibility only happens after the purchase is finalized or are identified when an employee or student encounters a problem. Very little interest on changing vendors at that point and vendors usually has little interest in accessibility modifications since they already have the money. 5. Sales people have little knowledge of accessibility of their products and will make accessibility statements that might later provide to be false 6. Most companies software and web developers have little knowledge of accessibility and therefore usually ignore the issue during development, without feedback on accessibility and prioritization of accessibility issues many vendors will not get accessibility right. While RFP language this is an important, more important is human resources trained in accessibility evaluation and design to be part of the purchasing process and to work with companies on implementing accessibility improvements, ideally in collaboration with other institutions. We need more people who can work with vendors to help them understand accessibility and do evaluations of products to validate accessibility claims of vendors. JOn From: Sheryl Burgstahler > Reply-To: Access Network > Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 1:10 PM To: Access Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] RE: institutional policy for purchasing technology A huge challenge in all of this is to get accessibility included in the purchasing process, when in many categories there is NO product that is reasonably accessible. Anyone have some wording to get around that issue? Sheryl ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Apr 25, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) wrote: Please reply to the list ? we?re in the process of working on this type of information as well and any information / resources would be appreciated! Thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker Coordinator, Technology Access Disability Resource Center 520-626-9409 hunziker@email.arizona.edu From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Shadrick, Megan E Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 12:19 PM To: athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] institutional policy for purchasing technology With there always being the ?next big thing? in educational technology and learning platforms; I know I am not the only one struggling to make sure the products being purchased are accessible. Does anyone have a solid institutional policy or procedure for the purchasing of technology that they would be willing to share? Thank you so much Megan Shadrick M.A., M.S., COMS Associate Director Disability Resource Center-Access Technology Center Missouri State University meganshadrick@missouristate.edu http://www.missouristate.edu/atc _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karen.sorensen at pcc.edu Thu Apr 25 16:22:16 2013 From: karen.sorensen at pcc.edu (Karen Sorensen) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] RE: Math Accessibility - Again... Message-ID: We did a study on making online math courses more accessible. Here is a link to the study results and a video on the project. Would love to hear if it helps. Best, Karen Karen M. Sorensen Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland Community College 971-722-4720 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Thu Apr 25 17:36:47 2013 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible OCR for Mac In-Reply-To: <007b01ce4011$0c9b9e70$25d2db50$@karlencommunications.com> References: <007b01ce4011$0c9b9e70$25d2db50$@karlencommunications.com> Message-ID: <165BB52E-DE6A-4BF3-ADEB-6A42844328CF@stanford.edu> > I have a client who needs an accessible OCR tool for the mac OS that is usable with VoiceOver. Any suggestions? For production purposes, I would use Abbyy Finereader for Mac (http://finereader.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/), but I do not believe it will be accessible with VoiceOver. Some of the basic menu features could be navigated, but when you are dealing with the zoning tools and functions, then those components will not be accessible. Another option to consider (although I cannot comment on its accuracy) is OCR Kit on the App Store (http://ocrkit.com/index.html). While the demo videos show dragging a file onto the OCR Kit icon, you can also navigate to the image file with the keyboard and choose "Open With > OCR Kit" from the right-click menu. This will allow the OCR to recognize the document and open the file in your preferred application. It does not have the features of Abbyy, but may be an option. I have used ReadIris previously (http://www.irislink.com/c2-2115-189/Readiris-14--OCR-Software--Scan--Convert---Manage-your-Documents-.aspx), but this was not that accessible of an interface and suffered from similar issues as Abbyy Finereader in terms of zoning tools, etc. Lastly, there are also web-based tools to consider, but these are automated and you generally don't have fine control over the scanning, etc. I know the Robobraille and Sensus sites (Robobraille: http://robobraille.org/frontpage , Sensus: http://sensusaccess.com/) both use Abbyy Recognition Server and give you choices for the output option, so it really depends on how good the scan is for the input. Hope this helps. Take care, Sean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For production purposes, I would use Abbyy Finereader for Mac (http://finereader.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/), but I do not believe it will be accessible with VoiceOver. Some of the basic menu features could be navigated, but when you are dealing with the zoning tools and functions, then those components will not be accessible. Another option to consider (although I cannot comment on its accuracy) is OCR Kit on the App Store (http://ocrkit.com/index.html). While the demo videos show dragging a file onto the OCR Kit icon, you can also navigate to the image file with the keyboard and choose "Open With > OCR Kit" from the right-click menu. This will allow the OCR to recognize the document and open the file in your preferred application. It does not have the features of Abbyy, but may be an option. I have used ReadIris previously (http://www.irislink.com/c2-2115-189/Readiris-14--OCR-Software--Scan--Conver t---Manage-your-Documents-.aspx), but this was not that accessible of an interface and suffered from similar issues as Abbyy Finereader in terms of zoning tools, etc. Lastly, there are also web-based tools to consider, but these are automated and you generally don't have fine control over the scanning, etc. I know the Robobraille and Sensus sites (Robobraille: http://robobraille.org/frontpage , Sensus: http://sensusaccess.com/) both use Abbyy Recognition Server and give you choices for the output option, so it really depends on how good the scan is for the input. Hope this helps. Take care, Sean -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet the enthusiasm of new methods and new services has been detrimental to the conversations that take place in traditional higher ed institutions regarding diversity, providing access to education to individuals from different socioeconomic backgrounds, or providing equal opportunities to people with disabilities who, until recent times, have not had the level playing field when it comes to accessing higher education. These same conversations need to take place for new models of education as they have for traditional models. For quite some time, uncertainties will plague the higher education field. While we can see the directions that higher education learning will take, we cannot entirely predict where higher ed will end up. We may be in an extended transition period--a period of constant and rapid change. No matter what changes happen, there is no doubt that we will need to ensure that people with disabilities receive equal access to educational opportunities. 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Paire) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> MathML -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. -Paul ________________________________________ From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus [greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM To: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or know any tools that can help in this process? Thanks. Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 greg_kraus@ncsu.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From CUTLER_ELLEN at smc.edu Sun Apr 28 10:23:13 2013 From: CUTLER_ELLEN at smc.edu (CUTLER_ELLEN) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Chrome Browser and ChromeVox Screen Reader Message-ID: <5364E0CD2CC8434AB1232CDD7E70296238ABFB@SRI.smc.edu> Are any of you successfully working with or know people who are successfully working with Google Drive using the Chrome browser and the ChromeVox screen reader? Thanks in advance for your feedback. Best, Ellen Ellen Cutler Santa Monica College 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 310.434-4496 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blrichwine at gmail.com Sun Apr 28 20:59:57 2013 From: blrichwine at gmail.com (Brian Richwine) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> References: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: > No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> MathML > -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. > > -Paul > ________________________________________ > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [ > athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus [ > greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM > To: ATHEN > Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or > know any tools that can help in this process? > > Thanks. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Kraus > University IT Accessibility Coordinator > NC State University > 919.513.4087 > greg_kraus@ncsu.edu > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ron at ahead.org Mon Apr 29 01:50:43 2013 From: ron at ahead.org (Ron Stewart) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: References: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: <012601ce44b6$a28c1870$e7a44950$@ahead.org> Currently there is not, and probably not likely to be. The effort was put into ePub 3 to support MathML instead. Ron From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Richwine Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:00 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> MathML -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. -Paul ________________________________________ From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus [greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM To: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or know any tools that can help in this process? Thanks. Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 greg_kraus@ncsu.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greg_kraus at ncsu.edu Mon Apr 29 03:10:18 2013 From: greg_kraus at ncsu.edu (Greg Kraus) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: <012601ce44b6$a28c1870$e7a44950$@ahead.org> References: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> <012601ce44b6$a28c1870$e7a44950$@ahead.org> Message-ID: For this particular need, the user is actually just creating tables, not math. They have a lot of tabular data stored in LaTeX and want to convert it all to accessible PDFs. I'm not sure if that would change any recommendations or not. Thanks. Greg On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ron Stewart wrote: > Currently there is not, and probably not likely to be. The effort was put > into ePub 3 to support MathML instead. > > > > Ron > > > > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu > [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Brian > Richwine > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:00 PM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > > > Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was > possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in Web pages > and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: > > No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> MathML > -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. > > -Paul > ________________________________________ > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu > [athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus > [greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM > To: ATHEN > Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > > Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or > know any tools that can help in this process? > > Thanks. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Kraus > University IT Accessibility Coordinator > NC State University > 919.513.4087 > greg_kraus@ncsu.edu > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From karen.sorensen at pcc.edu Mon Apr 29 11:23:54 2013 From: karen.sorensen at pcc.edu (Karen Sorensen) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Re: LaTeX to PDF Message-ID: Hi Greg, It's my experience that PDFs created from LaTeX are untagged. And I don't think any math equations are accessible in a PDF, but you probably knew that. Karen M. Sorensen Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland Community College 971-722-4720 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JPielaet at clark.edu Mon Apr 29 13:07:18 2013 From: JPielaet at clark.edu (Pielaet, Jon) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Re: LaTeX to PDF Message-ID: <0DCAA4C8ADB52849B978F000A4AB766901D69BE1@Exch-Back-1.clark.edu> It is my understanding that rendering MathML or LaTeX in PDF basically removes the accessibility from the equation. (Please forgive me for the pun.) As Ron suggested, it is unlikely that we will see tools to make accessible math in PDFs. MathML support in ePub 3 is the future and tools like MathJax are making waves. In just the last few weeks, we have seen Pearson announce HTML+MathML for 70+ textbooks and Wikipedia implement MathJax. I guess I'll need to learn a little more about MathType. All the best, Jon Jon Pielaet Clark College Disability Support Services Assistive Technology and IT Accessibility Specialist 1933 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver, WA 98663-3598 (360) 992-2314 (360) 992-2879 Fax (360) 991-0901 Video Phone jpielaet@clark.edu http://www.clark.edu/dss -----Original Message----- From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 12:04 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 87, Issue 22 Send athen-list mailing list submissions to athen-list@u.washington.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to athen-list-request@mailman1.u.washington.edu You can reach the person managing the list at athen-list-owner@mailman1.u.washington.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of athen-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: LaTeX to PDF (Brian Richwine) 2. RE: LaTeX to PDF (Ron Stewart) 3. Re: LaTeX to PDF (Greg Kraus) 4. Re: LaTeX to PDF (Karen Sorensen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:59:57 -0400 From: Brian Richwine Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: > No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> > MathML > -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. > > -Paul > ________________________________________ > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [ > athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus > [ greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM > To: ATHEN > Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or > know any tools that can help in this process? > > Thanks. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Kraus > University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University > 919.513.4087 > greg_kraus@ncsu.edu > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130428/504f0963/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:50:43 -0500 From: "Ron Stewart" Subject: RE: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF To: "'Access Technology Higher Education Network'" Message-ID: <012601ce44b6$a28c1870$e7a44950$@ahead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Currently there is not, and probably not likely to be. The effort was put into ePub 3 to support MathML instead. Ron From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Richwine Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:00 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> MathML -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. -Paul ________________________________________ From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu [athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus [greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM To: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or know any tools that can help in this process? Thanks. Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 greg_kraus@ncsu.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130429/add13345/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:10:18 -0400 From: Greg Kraus Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 For this particular need, the user is actually just creating tables, not math. They have a lot of tabular data stored in LaTeX and want to convert it all to accessible PDFs. I'm not sure if that would change any recommendations or not. Thanks. Greg On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ron Stewart wrote: > Currently there is not, and probably not likely to be. The effort was > put into ePub 3 to support MathML instead. > > > > Ron > > > > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu > [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of > Brian Richwine > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2013 11:00 PM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > > > Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this > was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML were in > Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. > > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: > > No experience in this, but I think you may want to look at LaTeX -> > MathML > -> PDF, possibly using MathFlow. > > -Paul > ________________________________________ > From: athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu > [athen-list-bounces@mailman1.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Greg Kraus > [greg_kraus@ncsu.edu] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 9:50 PM > To: ATHEN > Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF > > > Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or > know any tools that can help in this process? > > Thanks. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Kraus > University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University > 919.513.4087 > greg_kraus@ncsu.edu > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 11:23:54 -0700 From: Karen Sorensen Subject: [Athen] Re: LaTeX to PDF To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Greg, It's my experience that PDFs created from LaTeX are untagged. And I don't think any math equations are accessible in a PDF, but you probably knew that. Karen M. Sorensen Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland Community College 971-722-4720 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20130429/8a891655/attachment-0001.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list End of athen-list Digest, Vol 87, Issue 22 ****************************************** From skeegan at stanford.edu Mon Apr 29 13:22:26 2013 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: References: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C7401DCA4F@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: <44C640F4-C504-4A4B-8CED-57A5BBC39874@stanford.edu> > Is there a solution for accessing mathML in PDFs? I didn't think this was possible. I thought the only accessible forms of mathML > were in Web pages and certain Daisy and EPUB readers. Right now, the specification for MathML in PDF is not formally established. The ISO 32000-2 specification, which is being worked on, is expected to address MathML as a functional component of the PDF specification: http://www.aiim.org/Research-and-Publications/standards/committees/PDFUA/Technical-Implementation-Guide#Section7 That being said, this only resolves the issue for the PDF file and does not speak to support by assistive computer technologies. So, you could have a PDF document that conforms to the specification and yet still not be "accessible" to assistive technologies. At this time, DAISY+MathML documents can be read with a few conforming DAISY readers and there is also some support for screen-readers when reading MathML on Web pages using the MathPlayer plug-in for IE. While ePub 3 has included MathML in the spec, I am not aware of any current assistive technologies that will read/parse the math in an ePub publication. There is also still limited support for MathML rendering in current ePub readers: http://www.mathjax.org/resources/epub-readers/ Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University From skeegan at stanford.edu Mon Apr 29 13:25:46 2013 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2625FC4C-1F31-4DA2-99F6-6E02E959FE95@stanford.edu> > Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or > know any tools that can help in this process? Last time I looked at this was two years ago and I could not find any TeX editors that would output to a tagged PDF file. The result was to output to PDF and then use a tagging tool (e.g., Acrobat) to go back through and add the correct tags to the content. Not pretty, but technically doable. Interestingly, a number of TeX editors seemed to be able to output to decent HTML, so that may be a faster approach than to deal with the PDF to accessible PDF process. Take care, Sean From devrtodd at isu.edu Mon Apr 29 13:49:02 2013 From: devrtodd at isu.edu (Todd DeVries) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] LaTeX to PDF In-Reply-To: <2625FC4C-1F31-4DA2-99F6-6E02E959FE95@stanford.edu> References: <2625FC4C-1F31-4DA2-99F6-6E02E959FE95@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <879795272.20130429144402@isu.edu> Hello everyone, tex4ht is a somewhat native LaTeX compiler. Can be a bit tricky to configure. TTH is an external application which does a reasonable job of converting most elements from a basic LaTeX file. It does not know how to handle most packages. Monday, April 29, 2013, 2:25:46 PM, you wrote: >> Does anyone have any experience going from LaTeX to accessible PDF or >> know any tools that can help in this process? > Last time I looked at this was two years ago and I could not > find any TeX editors that would output to a tagged PDF file. > The result was to output to PDF and then use a tagging tool > (e.g., Acrobat) to go back through and add the correct tags to > the content. Not pretty, but technically doable. > Interestingly, a number of TeX editors seemed to be able to > output to decent HTML, so that may be a faster approach than to > deal with the PDF to accessible PDF process. > Take care, > Sean_______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu > http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -- Todd DeVries Disability Services Office: (208) 282-3599 Fax: (208) 282-4617 921 S. 8th AVE Stop 8121 Pocatello, ID 83209 Communicate with me privately by using either my S/MIME key: http://bit.ly/T4Tw0b or GPG key: http://bit.ly/UwtGjC From CUTLER_ELLEN at smc.edu Mon Apr 29 16:04:58 2013 From: CUTLER_ELLEN at smc.edu (CUTLER_ELLEN) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] NaturallySpeaking Error Message Message-ID: <5364E0CD2CC8434AB1232CDD7E70296238B4BF@SRI.smc.edu> Hello, We have a student who is getting the following error message with Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 11.0 which he is running on a computer with Windows 7. Dragon has encountered an error and may become unstable. Please save your work, close NaturallySpeaking by choosing Profile. Close Dragon Bar and restart NaturallySpeaking. My student tried closing and restarting NaturallySpeaking as well as turning off the computer. He says that yesterday everything was running perfectly and that he has not made any changes to his computer in the interim. He cannot simply bypass the error and keep working. Are any of you familiar with this error message and how to solve the problem. Thanks in advance, Ellen Ellen Cutler Santa Monica College Disabled Student Services/High Tech Training Center 1900 Pico Blvd. Santa Monica, CA 90405 310.434-4496 cutler_ellen@smc.edu