From perionhesse at nwacc.edu Thu May 1 06:02:27 2014 From: perionhesse at nwacc.edu (Erion-Hesse, Patricia A.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:45 2018 Subject: [Athen] Text-to-speech for medical terminology In-Reply-To: <1E02D26B-0BC5-47CB-9D51-5776B9337740@stanford.edu> References: <2485060D14437C418353A9FB30FF0AB836690B49@byss.nwacc.edu> <233CF259-D2C0-47B5-BA49-9E14BDC131ED@stanford.edu> <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCABAC8@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> <2DCFF691-FE2A-4E49-8D24-36D9DDD2551A@stanford.edu> <2485060D14437C418353A9FB30FF0AB836690DCA@byss.nwacc.edu> <1E02D26B-0BC5-47CB-9D51-5776B9337740@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <2485060D14437C418353A9FB30FF0AB836690EFB@byss.nwacc.edu> Sean, Thanks so very much for the additional information. Our nursing students are looking for a program that reads medical terminology as accurately as possible. We have found some online medical dictionaries that do a great job with pronunciations, but we haven't been able to find the perfect TTS software. Have a great week. Pat H. 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If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disclose, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately that you are not the person for whom this email was intended and delete this email from your system." From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 3:38 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Text-to-speech for medical terminology Hi Pat, TextAloud is another solid application to consider. That said, I have found Balabolka supports many of the same capabilities at a much nicer price point (free!). I have found *some* of the more expensive voices can read medical/technical terms more accurately, but this is not always true. It may be necessary to modify the spoken word pronunciation in the application itself. For example, in Balabolka, you would need to go to View > Show > Panel of Dictionaries. This will open a panel on the right side of the interface. If you click on the Edit button on the top area of that panel, you will then see a few dictionary entries in which the written word is "corrected" into the spoken word. If you are looking at purchasing one of the higher quality voices, you may want to try and enter different terms on that web page and try out how the content is spoken. For the most part, I have had good results with Ivona voices, but given that medical terms may contain a doctor's or scientist's name as part of the condition, it really just depends. Also, regional differences may have an impact on how accurate the TTS voice is perceived in speaking the text content. I had visiting professor in grad school who insisted on pronouncing "musculoskeletal system" as "musculo ske LEE tal system" - needless to say, all of us would cringe. Lastly, I would suggest the following - although I have ZERO hard data and the following is based purely on anecdotal evidence - try an English speaking voice that has a slight accent. Some of the English speaking students I have worked with prefer a slightly accented voice as they feel they do not get too hung up on what may be mispronunciations of the text. For the Ivona voices, this may be something like Ivona Amy (British English) or if using Nuance then Tessa (South African). Hope this helps. Take care, Sean On Apr 30, 2014, at 6:17 AM, "Erion-Hesse, Patricia A." > wrote: Thanks so much to everyone for providing the recommendations. I have tried Natural Reader and Balabolka, but I have not purchased additional voices. I also listened to the Ivona voice samples, and I agree that they are outstanding. If you purchase additional premium voices, have you found that they will read the medical/technical terms more accurately? I saw some info about TextAloud3, but I haven't tried it yet. Have any of you used it? ($29.95-$59.95) http://www.nextup.com/press/120412.html Thanks again. Pat H. Patricia Erion-Hesse, M.A. Disability Resources Accessible Media Lab Technician NorthWest Arkansas Community College AltText@nwacc.edu Main office (479) 986-4076 Phone (479) 986-4031 Fax (479) 619-4119 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Monday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Friday "This message is intended solely for the recipient to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you should not disclose, distribute or copy this email. Please notify the sender immediately that you are not the person for whom this email was intended and delete this email from your system." From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:38 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Text-to-speech for medical terminology Hi Paul, Yes - that is another great app to consider. I am finding it does a very good job at handling MS Word documents (docx) and supporting the math component. I have not been able to find a way to modify the speech output to structure the pronunciation of technical terms, but the TTS voices on my OS X system seem to be handling most college content without a problem. In addition to word/audio highlighting synchronization, it will also support sentence/audio highlight synchronization. Thanks for posting! Take care, sean On Apr 29, 2014, at 10:50 AM, "Paul E. Paire" > wrote: Sean, Great list. I found out about a new product at the most recent CSUN conference that you may want to consider adding to your list. Central Access Reader - http://www.cwu.edu/central-access/reader - Free - Windows (64bit only) and Mac (Mavericks and Mountain Lion) platforms - Synchronizes words (if this means what I think it means) - Supports multiple formats; copy and paste content into CAR - Can use multiple voices (it uses SAPI 5 voices so you have free and commercial options) - Has adjustable speech rates - Can export to MP3 and HTML including batch export - Reads math (Word's equation editor and MathType formats) -Paul Disclaimer: I do not work for Central Washington University or have any affiliation with them. I only have limited exposure to this product and have not used it in a production environment. From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 1:22 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Text-to-speech for medical terminology Hi Pat, There are a few options to consider for text-to-speech (TTS) systems that are both free and paid-versions. Also, if you are on a Windows computer I would consider purchasing high-quality TTS voices and then you can use a variety of different TTS applications. If you are on a Mac running OS X 10.7 or later, then you can download good quality voices for free. Here are some apps to consider: Balabolka - http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm - Free - Windows platform - Synchronizes words - Supports multiple formats; copy and paste content into Balabolka interface - Can use multiple voices Ivona Reader - http://www.ivona.com/us/reader/ - Free to $300 (price varies on TTS voices selected) - Windows platform - Synchronizes words - Supports multiple formats; copy and paste content into Ivona interface - LOTS of voices to choose from Natural Reader - http://www.naturalreaders.com/ - Free to $199 - Windows and Mac platform - Also has OCR capability at higher priced version - Synchronizes words - Supports multiple formats; copy and paste content into Natural Reader interface Speak Selection / Convert to iTunes - Free, built into OS X - Mac platform - No synchronized TTS with words - Any selectable text - Supports multiple voices Ghostreader - http://www.convenienceware.com/product/ghostreader - $40 for application - Mac platform - Synchronizes words and sentences - Supports multiple formats - Can use any TTS voice installed on OS X system These are just a few applications that you may want to consider that do TTS alone. If you are looking for something that provides more of a study tools environment (highlighting, etc.), then I would suggest checking out Claro Read, Read & Write Gold, or Kurzweil 3000. All of these systems (except for the Speak Selection in OS X) allow for the manipulation of the TTS output, so for technical language you can edit the TTS vocabulary to get the proper pronunciation. I would highly recommend checking out the Ivona voices. You don't have to purchase the Ivona reader or any of those products, but the TTS voices developed by Ivona are amazing. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University On Apr 29, 2014, at 5:50 AM, "Erion-Hesse, Patricia A." > wrote: Does anyone have recommendations for a reasonably priced text-to-speech software that accurately reads medical terminology? Thanks for your help. Pat H. 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Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Message-ID: <5135B059728F9E4EA68E0C929F341F89331ED021@netExchDAGW01.wtacademic.wtamu.edu> Dear Karen, I think the attached Word form is accessible. I want to add digital signatures and route the form for approvals electronically. Can you point me to information on how to do this accessibly, and keep the form in Word? Any advice is most appreciated! Sincerely, Lisa Caid Accessibility Coordinator Information Technology - Accessibility lcaid@wtamu.edu (806) 651-1241 IT Service Center (806) 651-4357 If you need email content or attachments in alternate formats for accessibility, please send your contact information and the specifics of your request to accessibility@wtamu.edu. -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of athen-list-request@mailman13.u.washington.edu Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:02 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 99, Issue 20 Send athen-list mailing list submissions to athen-list@u.washington.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to athen-list-request@mailman13.u.washington.edu You can reach the person managing the list at athen-list-owner@mailman13.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: Microsoft Accessibility MVP (Schafer, Carmen) 2. Re: Microsoft Accessibility MVP (Karlen Communications) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:41:00 +0000 From: "Schafer, Carmen" To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Message-ID: <9839CF788879F546B52E216072EE470FAE87F339@UM-MBX-N03.um.umsystem.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Congratulations Karen! Although I am not completely familiar with what a Microsoft Accessibility MVP means. What type of accessibility issues or questions we can ask? For example can we ask you: - questions or issues we run into when trying to produce accessible documents from Microsoft Word? - questions or issues we run into when using Word with assistive technology like Jaws? - questions or issues about potential accessibility bugs and add-ons? For example, we have discovered a problem with Microsoft Word 2013 and MathType. - accessibility feature enhancement requests? With appreciation, Carmen Schafer Univ of Missouri | Division of IT | ACT Center http://actcenter.missouri.edu (573)882-8838 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:58 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Hi Everyone! Am happy to announce that as well as being a Microsoft MVP for Word, I am now also a Microsoft Accessibility MVP! It is a new category of MVP and there are 70 of us worldwide from all main categories of MVP's. Please send any accessibility issues or questions and I'll pass them along! Also any Word issues or questions and I'll try to answer or pass them along! Send them any time they occur to you, this is ongoing with no time limits. 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For example can we ask you: - questions or issues we run into when trying to produce accessible documents from Microsoft Word? - questions or issues we run into when using Word with assistive technology like Jaws? - questions or issues about potential accessibility bugs and add-ons? For example, we have discovered a problem with Microsoft Word 2013 and MathType. - accessibility feature enhancement requests? With appreciation, Carmen Schafer Univ of Missouri | Division of IT | ACT Center http://actcenter.missouri.edu (573)882-8838 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:58 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Hi Everyone! Am happy to announce that as well as being a Microsoft MVP for Word, I am now also a Microsoft Accessibility MVP! It is a new category of MVP and there are 70 of us worldwide from all main categories of MVP's. 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Thanks, Jane Jane Berk AT Educational Assistant Assistive Computer Technology Service Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University Room 7-198 D3 CCC 10700 - 104 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 E: berkj@macewan.ca T: 780-497-5826 F: 780-497-4018 MacEwan.ca This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and/or privileged information. Please contact me immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[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 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Jane Berk Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 5:20 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Infty software Hello, Has anyone had any experience with the InftyReader OCR application that recognizes and translates science and math documents into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML? I've never heard of it. Thanks, Jane Jane Berk AT Educational Assistant Assistive Computer Technology Service Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University Room 7-198 D3 CCC 10700 - 104 Avenue Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 E: berkj@macewan.ca T: 780-497-5826 F: 780-497-4018 MacEwan.ca [MacEwan Logo] This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and/or privileged information. Please contact me immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 3605 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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I am performing some evaluations this month to see how we can integrate the Infty applications into our current workflow production. Overall, though, I am impressed with the recent versions of the product. From the Infty Editor, you can then export to Word XML and do any post processing work in MS Word to clean-up the content. A quick note - if you want the equations to be recognized as MathType objects in the document, you will need to run the "Convert Equations" function from the MathType ribbon. Chatty Infty is a version of the Infty Editor that provides speech output. The idea is that a student who is blind would be able to interact with equations and use the Chatty Infty interface to also type them out. A good knowledge of LaTeX is helpful with this tool. There is also a plug-in to Abbyy Finereader that will allow you to use Abbyy Finereader as the text OCR and Infty as the math OCR engine. I am testing this integration as well. It is important to note that while you can get a good accuracy with Infty, it should be reserved for content in which you have mathematical equations and formulae. You *will* have to do some post production editing and this can be done using the Infty Editor application or by exporting to MS Word (via Word XML). One last point - documents to be OCR'd by Infty should be 600 dpi. I have been testing different dpi levels and below 600 dpi you end up with too many errors. Unless you normally scan at 600 dpi, you will have to do some manipulation of the document to upscale to the 600 dpi threshold. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University On May 1, 2014, at 2:20 PM, "Jane Berk" wrote: > Hello, > Has anyone had any experience with the InftyReader OCR application that recognizes and translates science and math documents into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML? I've never heard of it. > Thanks, > Jane > > Jane Berk > AT Educational Assistant > Assistive Computer Technology Service > Services to Students with Disabilities > MacEwan University > Room 7-198 D3 CCC > 10700 - 104 Avenue > Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 > E: berkj@macewan.ca > T: 780-497-5826 > F: 780-497-4018 > MacEwan.ca > > > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to which it is addressed, and may contain confidential, personal, and/or privileged information. Please contact me immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Our site (in development -- not for publication, smiley face) is here: http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc-dev/ Thanks for your time! Tess From paire at temple.edu Thu May 1 17:11:43 2014 From: paire at temple.edu (Paul E. Paire) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites In-Reply-To: <1674CBD33B25204D92DC5493210969E549609B70@WILLOW.bellevuecollege.edu> References: <1674CBD33B25204D92DC5493210969E549609B70@WILLOW.bellevuecollege.edu> Message-ID: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCAE694@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> I haven't taken a hard look at the accessibility of WordPress in a while (and they come out with a new version about every six months). However, here's some resources: A plugin to help improve accessibility: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/ Note: a lot depends on the theme that you're using, and plugins can negatively impact accessibility as well. This is the blog of the accessibility team for WordPress: https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/ -Paul -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tess McMillan Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 5:51 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites Hello all, I am building a WordPress Web site for the Bellevue College DRC, as our college is transitioning to this model for departmental sites. The existing site -- built on active server pages -- used accesskeys. Adding accesskeys to a WordPress site will be new to me and I think we'll need a "plug in" for this functionality. Do any of you have tips or info you can share as regards WordPress and accesskeys or accessibility in general? I realize the question sounds general, but WordPress is fairly new (isn't it?) and I thought someone here might have a gem to share. Our site (in development -- not for publication, smiley face) is here: http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc-dev/ Thanks for your time! Tess _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From jsuttondc at gmail.com Thu May 1 19:39:14 2014 From: jsuttondc at gmail.com (Jennifer Sutton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites In-Reply-To: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCAE694@exch14-mb1.tu.tem ple.edu> References: <1674CBD33B25204D92DC5493210969E549609B70@WILLOW.bellevuecollege.edu> <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCAE694@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20140501192849.05e48618@gmail.com> Hello, all: I wouldn't particularly put accesskeys as a high priority when setting up an accessible WordPress site. It's difficult to select them so that they won't conflict with other key-combos. WordPress is now on Version 3.9, and I would say that there's been quite a bit of effort to improve its accessibility over the last year, both on the front and back end. That being said, people need to take care not to break accessibility that's built into core, and it does, indeed, matter which themes you choose (or how you build your own). Note that Joe Dolson recently gave an online course on WordPress and accessibility; he's very knowledgeable. I believe he's the one who built the WordPress Accessibility plugin Paul mentions below. Here are a few more links to add to Paul's: Joe's slides from WordCamp Minneapolis (recent): http://slides.joedolson.com/wcmsp2014/#1 A Post by Joe on Accessible Video: https://www.joedolson.com/articles/2013/11/accessible-video-wordpress/ A post by someone who built an accessible theme for the Cities Project: http://www.happywebdiva.com/2014/03/15/accessible-wordpress-theme/ And another theme from that project: http://davidakennedy.com/2013/accessible-zen-an-accessible-wordpress-theme/ A post that collects most of the key resources: http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/61516-WordPress-Accessibility-Resources and last, but perhaps most important, the Accessibility Guidelines to help with building themes: http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-accessibility/ Best, Jennifer From harris_jp at hotmail.com Thu May 1 19:47:20 2014 From: harris_jp at hotmail.com (John Paul) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites In-Reply-To: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCAE694@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> References: <1674CBD33B25204D92DC5493210969E549609B70@WILLOW.bellevuecollege.edu>, <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCAE694@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: Hi Tess, I have used WordPress Twenty Thirteen (http://wordpress.org/themes/twentythirteen) as a theme for a couple of clients. I like this theme because it is easy for clients to use, accessible (out-of-the-box accessibility), and incorporates Accessicle Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) markup. I think this is a big step for a vendor. The other WordPress-developed themes are probably good, but I have never looked at. You can easily use Twenty Thirteen as your parent theme then setup a child theme and begin to modify. Actually, there is one bug in the Twenty Thirteen theme--it uses two H1's per page. This can easily be fixed with one line of code. However, everything else is really good (actually, Awesome) for an off-the-shelf template! As a larger organization, you will probably want to develop your own theme. This is good because it gives you a lot of control of the markup. You can create all of your HTML markup with php files. Sounds complicated and it took me a while to put it all together, but it is really easy and gives you, the developer, a lot of control over all code used for your organization's website. With such awesome power, you should be able to ensure every website for your organization is accessible. Also, with that said, I am really impressed with WordPress accessibility. oh yeah, stay away from accesskeys. These are not considered beneficial and I do not think most people like or use. Use ARIA and/or HTML5 instead. Also, Paula E. Paire is right, your accessibility is going depend on the theme you decide to use. In my opinion, most third party developed themes are trying to do too much and lack good HTML code structure and usually have accessibility issues that will be hard to correct. Sometimes, it is best to develop your own theme. John Paul Harris > From: paire@temple.edu > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 00:11:43 +0000 > Subject: Re: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites > > I haven't taken a hard look at the accessibility of WordPress in a while (and they come out with a new version about every six months). However, here's some resources: > > A plugin to help improve accessibility: > https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-accessibility/ > Note: a lot depends on the theme that you're using, and plugins can negatively impact accessibility as well. > > This is the blog of the accessibility team for WordPress: > https://make.wordpress.org/accessibility/ > > -Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Tess McMillan > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 5:51 PM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] accesskey keyboard accessibility and WordPress sites > > Hello all, > > I am building a WordPress Web site for the Bellevue College DRC, as our college is transitioning to this model for departmental sites. > > The existing site -- built on active server pages -- used accesskeys. Adding accesskeys to a WordPress site will be new to me and I think we'll need a "plug in" for this functionality. > > Do any of you have tips or info you can share as regards WordPress and accesskeys or accessibility in general? I realize the question sounds general, but WordPress is fairly new (isn't it?) and I thought someone here might have a gem to share. > > Our site (in development -- not for publication, smiley face) is here: http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc-dev/ > > Thanks for your time! > > Tess > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"Use system colors" is UNchecked by default and "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above" is checked by default, so it is common for users just to check "Use system colors" without unchecking the other. However, in Firefox 29 the priority of these checkboxes seems to have changed to more accurately correspond to their positioning and wording. We found that if we uncheck the box "Allow pages to choose their own colors, instead of my selections above" while leaving "Use system colors" checked that Firefox will again use System Colors and thus be able to provide high contrast within the content area. This setting is in the Options under Content > Colors. Todd Schwanke UW-Madison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please contact me immediately if you are not the intended recipient of this communication, and do not copy, distribute, or take action relying on it. Any communication received in error, or subsequent reply, should be deleted or destroyed. >>> Sean Keegan 5/1/2014 3:43 PM >>> Hi Jane, Yes - I have had experience with the Infty applications (there are variations on the Infty product). In short, Infty Reader is the component that will allow you to perform the OCR of the math and text content. The results of this file will then open in Infty Editor. Infty Editor is a editing application that allows you to correct and edit the output from Infty Reader - it looks a bit like Notepad on steroids (with a side of HGH). I am performing some evaluations this month to see how we can integrate the Infty applications into our current workflow production. Overall, though, I am impressed with the recent versions of the product. From the Infty Editor, you can then export to Word XML and do any post processing work in MS Word to clean-up the content. A quick note - if you want the equations to be recognized as MathType objects in the document, you will need to run the "Convert Equations" function from the MathType ribbon. Chatty Infty is a version of the Infty Editor that provides speech output. The idea is that a student who is blind would be able to interact with equations and use the Chatty Infty interface to also type them out. A good knowledge of LaTeX is helpful with this tool. There is also a plug-in to Abbyy Finereader that will allow you to use Abbyy Finereader as the text OCR and Infty as the math OCR engine. I am testing this integration as well. It is important to note that while you can get a good accuracy with Infty, it should be reserved for content in which you have mathematical equations and formulae. You *will* have to do some post production editing and this can be done using the Infty Editor application or by exporting to MS Word (via Word XML). One last point - documents to be OCR'd by Infty should be 600 dpi. I have been testing different dpi levels and below 600 dpi you end up with too many errors. Unless you normally scan at 600 dpi, you will have to do some manipulation of the document to upscale to the 600 dpi threshold. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University On May 1, 2014, at 2:20 PM, "Jane Berk" wrote: Hello, Has anyone had any experience with the InftyReader OCR application that recognizes and translates science and math documents into LaTeX, MathML and XHTML? I've never heard of it. 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More information available at: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/01/notability-app-of-the-week/ Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri May 2 09:43:35 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Notability Message-ID: <114001cf6625$ab7999d0$026ccd70$@gmail.com> Thanks for the tip, Sean! A question for the troops: anyone have a recommendation for OCR text recognition apps for the iPad? Thanks everyone. I love this knowledge pool we belong to... Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com From jeffbis at email.arizona.edu Fri May 2 10:42:35 2014 From: jeffbis at email.arizona.edu (Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Free notetaking app for iOS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9D8D3F65EADC0844939399EC1C6F42D54042B3F6@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu> Sean, Do you know if this app is compatible with VoiceOver by chance? -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 9:31 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] Free notetaking app for iOS Hello all, Just a quick note - the notetaking and recording app, Notability, is the iTunes App of the Week and is free for the next several days. This is a great app for notetaking on an iPad, iPhone, or other iToy that you may have. One attractive feature is that you can import a PDF of the lecture slides and then take notes directly on those slides using this app. It can also record audio and that is synchronized with the notes you create. More information available at: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/01/notability-app-of-the-week/ Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From adwershing at pstcc.edu Fri May 2 11:44:13 2014 From: adwershing at pstcc.edu (Wershing, Alice D.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Message-ID: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B6E1@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Teresa.Haven at nau.edu Fri May 2 12:25:12 2014 From: Teresa.Haven at nau.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Free notetaking app for iOS In-Reply-To: <9D8D3F65EADC0844939399EC1C6F42D54042B3F6@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu> References: <9D8D3F65EADC0844939399EC1C6F42D54042B3F6@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FD9F8E4C@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> I just downloaded and installed it, and found it isn't great with Voiceover although it's marginally usable. They haven't done a good job of labeling their buttons for understandability, although VO does access and read the buttons, and read text within the notes. Teresa Teresa Haven, Ph.D. Accessibility Analyst Northern Arizona University (928) 523-6042 -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 10:43 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: Re: [Athen] Free notetaking app for iOS Sean, Do you know if this app is compatible with VoiceOver by chance? -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 9:31 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; Alternate Media Subject: [Athen] Free notetaking app for iOS Hello all, Just a quick note - the notetaking and recording app, Notability, is the iTunes App of the Week and is free for the next several days. This is a great app for notetaking on an iPad, iPhone, or other iToy that you may have. One attractive feature is that you can import a PDF of the lecture slides and then take notes directly on those slides using this app. It can also record audio and that is synchronized with the notes you create. More information available at: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/01/notability-app-of-the-week/ Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From Teresa.Haven at nau.edu Fri May 2 12:51:55 2014 From: Teresa.Haven at nau.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Notability In-Reply-To: <114001cf6625$ab7999d0$026ccd70$@gmail.com> References: <114001cf6625$ab7999d0$026ccd70$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FD9F8E9E@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> I'd like to hear any OCR for iPad recommendations as well -- please share to list. Am researching that topic right now. Teresa Teresa Haven, Ph.D. Accessibility Analyst Northern Arizona University (928) 523-6042 -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of foreigntype Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 9:44 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Notability Thanks for the tip, Sean! A question for the troops: anyone have a recommendation for OCR text recognition apps for the iPad? Thanks everyone. I love this knowledge pool we belong to... Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From info at karlencommunications.com Fri May 2 13:26:13 2014 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP In-Reply-To: <5135B059728F9E4EA68E0C929F341F89331ED021@netExchDAGW01.wtacademic.wtamu.edu> References: <5135B059728F9E4EA68E0C929F341F89331ED021@netExchDAGW01.wtacademic.wtamu.edu> Message-ID: <000001cf6644$c3c6d1f0$4b5475d0$@karlencommunications.com> Hi Lisa: In order to apply a digital signature in Word or any other applications such as Adobe Acrobat/Reader, you would need to have an account with a digital signature company. If you go to digitally sign a Word document, you are guided through some options including signing up for a digital signature. Adding a signature in Word is done through the Insert menu: If you choose the first option, this is the dialog to start the process: If you choose the second option, your browser will open with the following information: http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/providers/digital-id-HA001050484.aspx So it is not the same as it is in Adobe Acrobat/Reader in that there isn't a digital signature field. You would have to educate anyone who is filling out the form on how to "digitally sign" a Word document. In this case it would be better if they filled in the form, printed it out and then sent it to you by scanning it back in or by snail mail.or create an accessible PDF form from this template (first you would need to remove all the form controls from this document and then print to PDF, open it in Acrobat and add the form controls then the Tags). Cheers, Karen -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Caid, Lisa M. Sent: May 1, 2014 4:30 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Dear Karen, I think the attached Word form is accessible. I want to add digital signatures and route the form for approvals electronically. Can you point me to information on how to do this accessibly, and keep the form in Word? Any advice is most appreciated! Sincerely, Lisa Caid Accessibility Coordinator Information Technology - Accessibility lcaid@wtamu.edu (806) 651-1241 IT Service Center (806) 651-4357 If you need email content or attachments in alternate formats for accessibility, please send your contact information and the specifics of your request to accessibility@wtamu.edu. -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [ mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of athen-list-request@mailman13.u.washington.edu Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 2:02 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 99, Issue 20 Send athen-list mailing list submissions to athen-list@u.washington.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to athen-list-request@mailman13.u.washington.edu You can reach the person managing the list at athen-list-owner@mailman13.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: Microsoft Accessibility MVP (Schafer, Carmen) 2. Re: Microsoft Accessibility MVP (Karlen Communications) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:41:00 +0000 From: "Schafer, Carmen" < schafercg@missouri.edu> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network < athen-list@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Message-ID: < 9839CF788879F546B52E216072EE470FAE87F339@UM-MBX-N03.um.umsystem.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Congratulations Karen! Although I am not completely familiar with what a Microsoft Accessibility MVP means. What type of accessibility issues or questions we can ask? For example can we ask you: - questions or issues we run into when trying to produce accessible documents from Microsoft Word? - questions or issues we run into when using Word with assistive technology like Jaws? - questions or issues about potential accessibility bugs and add-ons? For example, we have discovered a problem with Microsoft Word 2013 and MathType. - accessibility feature enhancement requests? With appreciation, Carmen Schafer Univ of Missouri | Division of IT | ACT Center http://actcenter.missouri.edu (573)882-8838 From: athen-list [ mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:58 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Hi Everyone! Am happy to announce that as well as being a Microsoft MVP for Word, I am now also a Microsoft Accessibility MVP! It is a new category of MVP and there are 70 of us worldwide from all main categories of MVP's. Please send any accessibility issues or questions and I'll pass them along! Also any Word issues or questions and I'll try to answer or pass them along! Send them any time they occur to you, this is ongoing with no time limits. Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/athen-list/attachments/20140424/ 3b782b34/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 05:33:03 -0400 From: "Karlen Communications" < info@karlencommunications.com> To: "'Access Technology Higher Education Network'" < athen-list@u.washington.edu> Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Message-ID: < 003601cf6069$5bbfe910$133fbb30$@karlencommunications.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Carmen: Yes to all of these things. And it can be for any of the Microsoft products. Cheers, Karen From: athen-list [ mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Schafer, Carmen Sent: April 24, 2014 6:41 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Congratulations Karen! Although I am not completely familiar with what a Microsoft Accessibility MVP means. What type of accessibility issues or questions we can ask? For example can we ask you: - questions or issues we run into when trying to produce accessible documents from Microsoft Word? - questions or issues we run into when using Word with assistive technology like Jaws? - questions or issues about potential accessibility bugs and add-ons? For example, we have discovered a problem with Microsoft Word 2013 and MathType. - accessibility feature enhancement requests? With appreciation, Carmen Schafer Univ of Missouri | Division of IT | ACT Center http://actcenter.missouri.edu < http://actcenter.missouri.edu/> (573)882-8838 From: athen-list [ mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:58 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu < mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu> Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Accessibility MVP Hi Everyone! Am happy to announce that as well as being a Microsoft MVP for Word, I am now also a Microsoft Accessibility MVP! It is a new category of MVP and there are 70 of us worldwide from all main categories of MVP's. Please send any accessibility issues or questions and I'll pass them along! Also any Word issues or questions and I'll try to answer or pass them along! Send them any time they occur to you, this is ongoing with no time limits. Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY In-Reply-To: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C976D@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> References: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B6E1@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C976D@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B705@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> The file is 2.5 MB Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:53 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY How large is the file? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:44 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. 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Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:54 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY The file is 2.5 MB Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:53 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY How large is the file? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:44 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. 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Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY In-Reply-To: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9BF5@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> References: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B6E1@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C976D@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B705@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9BF5@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B706@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> 378 pages I was able to bookmark the chapters in the PDf version, so there will be 31 chapter headings I am trying to make the headings so that the Victor Reader navigation will be available through the chapters. Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:59 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY Sorry, I should have specified better. How many pages? Do you have a lot of headings? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:54 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY The file is 2.5 MB Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:53 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY How large is the file? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:44 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Mon May 5 13:14:45 2014 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY In-Reply-To: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B706@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> References: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B6E1@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C976D@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B705@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9BF5@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B706@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> Message-ID: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9C37@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Hmmm, that is a large file. I don't remember running one that large before. Just as a test, you might try creating a separate file with just the first couple of chapters to see if it will process. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:17 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY 378 pages I was able to bookmark the chapters in the PDf version, so there will be 31 chapter headings I am trying to make the headings so that the Victor Reader navigation will be available through the chapters. Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:59 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY Sorry, I should have specified better. How many pages? Do you have a lot of headings? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:54 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY The file is 2.5 MB Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:53 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY How large is the file? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:44 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Mon May 5 19:14:52 2014 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron Stewart) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Rick Clinton at Pearson Message-ID: <034201cf68d0$f92f32e0$eb8d98a0$@gmail.com> Good evening all, thought we were finally making progress with Pearson but it appears that Rick Clinton who was heading up their STEM accessibility projects is no longer with them. 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This reflects a common occurrence with the major publishers. > > Ron Stewart > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adwershing at pstcc.edu Tue May 6 05:29:08 2014 From: adwershing at pstcc.edu (Wershing, Alice D.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Rick Clinton at Pearson In-Reply-To: <034201cf68d0$f92f32e0$eb8d98a0$@gmail.com> References: <034201cf68d0$f92f32e0$eb8d98a0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B70A@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> I have been working with Elaine Ober at Pearson as well. Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 10:15 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; aheadmembers@listserve.com Subject: [Athen] Rick Clinton at Pearson Good evening all, thought we were finally making progress with Pearson but it appears that Rick Clinton who was heading up their STEM accessibility projects is no longer with them. This reflects a common occurrence with the major publishers. Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adwershing at pstcc.edu Tue May 6 05:30:37 2014 From: adwershing at pstcc.edu (Wershing, Alice D.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY In-Reply-To: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9C37@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> References: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B6E1@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C976D@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B705@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9BF5@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B706@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6C9C37@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: <9FE11CF39AD78F4C9FA12F7954AE9F56F9EF86B70B@EXCHANGE.pstcc.edu> I'm trying a 30 day trial of Dolphin's converter. So far it seems to be working, I'm transferring the file to the Stream. I'm also seeing if KW 1000 will process it. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 4:15 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY Hmmm, that is a large file. I don't remember running one that large before. Just as a test, you might try creating a separate file with just the first couple of chapters to see if it will process. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:17 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY 378 pages I was able to bookmark the chapters in the PDf version, so there will be 31 chapter headings I am trying to make the headings so that the Victor Reader navigation will be available through the chapters. Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 2:59 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY Sorry, I should have specified better. How many pages? Do you have a lot of headings? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 1:54 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY The file is 2.5 MB Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. Technology Specialist Disability Services Pellissippi State Community College 10915 Hardin Valley Road Knoxville TN 37933-0990 (865) 694-6751 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:53 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Save as DAISY How large is the file? Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wershing, Alice D. Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:44 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Save as DAISY Our students have a book that everyone has to read. The PDF had some access issues, so I exported it out to a Word document to clean it up and then put it on an older Victor Reader Stream. I've tried to use the Save As DAISY add on, but when I attempt to save the file, Word stops responding in both 2010 and 2013. I was able to add the chapter headings into Word, but can't make any other changes since Word stops working. If there are any other free tools to try, I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks- Alice Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P. 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Teresa Teresa Haven, Ph.D. Accessibility Analyst Northern Arizona University (928) 523-6042 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 7:26 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Rick Clinton at Pearson When did this happen? Any news on carry-over STEM support or on his replacement? Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com On May 5, 2014, at 7:14 PM, "Ron Stewart" > wrote: Good evening all, thought we were finally making progress with Pearson but it appears that Rick Clinton who was heading up their STEM accessibility projects is no longer with them. This reflects a common occurrence with the major publishers. Ron Stewart _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University On May 6, 2014, at 1:06 PM, "Paul E. Paire" wrote: > Hello, > > We?re in the process of implementing a site on Drupal which requires users to authenticate via a form (username/password fields to login to a help desk ticketing system.) However, there are session timeouts and we need to be able to present the users with the option of requesting more time (the option to turn off the session timeouts has been declined by our security staff.) Does anyone have any sample code (or know of a module) for Drupal we could give to our developers that would prompt the users if they need more time before the session times out (and if the click yes, to extend the session)? > > Thanks, > > -Paul > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paire at temple.edu Tue May 6 19:24:47 2014 From: paire at temple.edu (Paul E. Paire) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Drupal sessoin timeout extension In-Reply-To: References: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCB49B6@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Message-ID: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCB4EA3@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> Thanks Sean! I'll let the developers know (the page is hosted so there are restrictions on what modules we can use.) Hopefully this will be a viable solution! -Paul From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 5:09 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Drupal sessoin timeout extension Hi Paul, Have you considered the Automated Logout module for Drupal - https://drupal.org/project/autologout ? I played with this module a bit on a test site and I believe it had the option of requesting more time for a session if the user was about to be disconnected from the system. I really did not spend much time on it, so I can't provide many details. I don't know how much control the user may have either and maybe this can be controlled via the Permissions. Lullabot also did a review of the module: http://www.lullabot.com/blog/article/module-monday-auto-logout Hope this helps. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University On May 6, 2014, at 1:06 PM, "Paul E. Paire" > wrote: Hello, We're in the process of implementing a site on Drupal which requires users to authenticate via a form (username/password fields to login to a help desk ticketing system.) However, there are session timeouts and we need to be able to present the users with the option of requesting more time (the option to turn off the session timeouts has been declined by our security staff.) Does anyone have any sample code (or know of a module) for Drupal we could give to our developers that would prompt the users if they need more time before the session times out (and if the click yes, to extend the session)? 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These will give some producers their first look at their site through the accessibility lens. I am aware of the basic list of validators out there, but I am interested if anyone has a recommendation for using them in a situation like this. Thank you in advance and please forgive the cross posts. James James Bailey M.S. Associate Director Accessible Education Center University of Oregon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iza.bartosiewicz at rmit.edu.au Wed May 7 19:23:05 2014 From: iza.bartosiewicz at rmit.edu.au (Iza Bartosiewicz) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:46 2018 Subject: [Athen] Campus Survey of Web Accessibility Message-ID: Hi James, Several years ago I was involved in developing the Web Accessibility Framework at my university. To make sure that we were embedding accessibility in all relevant processes, we looked at not only web development and publishing, but also multimedia development, content creation (including teaching content), project management, staff training (web publishing, PDF, MS Office apps, Blackboard), procurement (web apps, authoring tools) and recruitment. I don't have any surveys to share with you, but consider including those areas in your survey, and in the scope of the project. One of the greatest struggles for achieving accessibility is dealing with inaccessible 3rd-party applications. If would be SO MUCH easier (and cheaper in the long run) if our institutions took more care in purchasing/leasing/commissioning standards-compliant, usable and accessible products. This would save us time (and time=money), and would send a message to the vendors that accessibility is worth investing in, since it could potentially give them an advantage over the competition. When it comes to dealing with vendors, the trick is to: - be specific about your requirements (even to the checkpoint level), - be realistic in what you want (some compromises may be unavoidable), - and verify any claims made by vendors (who will say anything you want to hear). For the validation and evaluation tools, I would recommend the WAVE tool from WebAIM, which gives immediate and visual feedback. The latest version is online-only, which means you won't be able to test secure pages. However, the Firefox toolbar is still available for download. WAVE online http://wave.webaim.org/ WAVE toolbar http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/ I also use Fangs, the screen reader emulator, when I don't need or want to use a screen reader. It's great for showing headings and link lists. Fangs (Firefox): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fangs-screen-reader-emulator/ Hemingway is a handy tool for testing 'readability' of content http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ Color Oracle is for simulating colour blindness http://colororacle.org/ Color Contrast Analyser is great for validating colours of text, backgrounds and images in any document. http://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/contrastAnalyser The Responsinator will show you how web pages look in a variety of mobile devices https://delicious.com/rmitaccessibility/tools W3C's code validators http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/ Finally, ask your web developers to navigate and interact with their websites using keyboard only :-) Most of these tools are great for quick, page-based tests, but you'll need other tools for more a comprehensive testing. Ideally, you'll need several toolkits to support different roles (e.g. content creator toolkit, web developer toolkit, multimedia developer toolkit, etc.). Of course, you'll also need to teach all staff about the limitations of those tools and how to use them wisely. If you are considering an enterprise-wide testing tool, Karl Groves has some great advice: Web Accessibility Testing: What Can be Tested and How http://www.karlgroves.com/2012/09/15/accessibility-testing-what-can-be-tested-and-how/ Choosing an Automated Accessibility Testing Tool: 13 Questions you should ask http://www.karlgroves.com/2013/06/28/choosing-an-automated-accessibility-testing-tool-13-questions-you-should-ask/ Hope this helps. Good luck! cheers Iza Iza Bartosiewicz Library Website Coordinator RMIT University p: 99253103 e: iza.bartosiewicz@rmit.edu.au t: #Mr0wka18 l: www.linkedin.com/in/izabartosiewicz "The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering", Tom Waits -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Typically how this works is that I would write some message, encode it, and give the students the encoded message to decode. For example, if I were teaching substitution cyphers, I might give them the code: KZ KG MIJIO'G ZHJ GQI UNPG SKOWGI, OHGQKOV MHWUF VIG FHOI. which decode to IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE LAST MINUTE, NOTHING WOULD GET DONE. (K is substituted for I, Z for F, G for T, etc). Such problems are solved by noticing which letters or sequences of letters appear most often, and making guesses. I'm wondering if you think there is a way to convert these problems into an accessible format. Reading the encoded message aloud would probably not be very helpful, although some braille alphabet equivalent might work. I'm hoping that this will be somehow feasible, because these types of problems are very engaging. The cryptology section would probably be at the end of the course, so we have time to figure it out. I just thought I would mention it now in case it is going to be difficult." I have of course emailed the student to see what might work best for them but any suggestions from the list would be deeply appreciated! Thanks, Alexa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri May 9 05:54:22 2014 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible Cryptography for a Blind Student? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA846A6CA76A@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> If they know grade 1 braille, this should be fairly easy to produce, if you have braille production equipment. If not, you can send it out. Maybe a local transcriber would be a good idea since there probably won?t be much. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Avenue Kansas City, KS 66112 913-288-7671 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Alexa Schriempf Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 6:15 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Accessible Cryptography for a Blind Student? Dear ATHENites: A math instructor who will have a blind student (JAWS user, Word Doc, IE and Firefox, and some but not fluent Braille) in her course this summer has wisely anticipated the following access challenge: "I'm planning to have most of the course focus on number theory and combinatorics, which are both very arithmetic subjects. I shouldn't need many pictures or diagrams. But I was hoping to spend a little bit of time on classical cryptology, and have students try their hands at code-breaking. Typically how this works is that I would write some message, encode it, and give the students the encoded message to decode. For example, if I were teaching substitution cyphers, I might give them the code: KZ KG MIJIO'G ZHJ GQI UNPG SKOWGI, OHGQKOV MHWUF VIG FHOI. which decode to IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE LAST MINUTE, NOTHING WOULD GET DONE. (K is substituted for I, Z for F, G for T, etc). Such problems are solved by noticing which letters or sequences of letters appear most often, and making guesses. I'm wondering if you think there is a way to convert these problems into an accessible format. Reading the encoded message aloud would probably not be very helpful, although some braille alphabet equivalent might work. I'm hoping that this will be somehow feasible, because these types of problems are very engaging. The cryptology section would probably be at the end of the course, so we have time to figure it out. I just thought I would mention it now in case it is going to be difficult." 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As always, feedback is welcome. http://www.karlencommunications.com/AODA.html Please share it with anyone who might find it useful. .And yes, for those of you who love my pets as much as I do, Barnaby and Olivia are on the cover (as they are on all my how to booklets.). Zoie doesn't seem to want to use the computer, but if I see her keyboarding, will add her picture. LOL Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From akinney at hampshire.edu Tue May 13 08:49:32 2014 From: akinney at hampshire.edu (Asha Kinney) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Message-ID: Greetings Athen List: We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be taking a course in Arabic this fall. Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to wrap my head around the translation process. I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. Thanks! Asha Kinney Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu From dhayman at u.washington.edu Tue May 13 08:54:43 2014 From: dhayman at u.washington.edu (Doug Hayman) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Don't know about that but found this bit on Duxbury site: The rules for contracted Arabic were originally specified by the former Middle East Committee for the Welfare of the Blind (now under the auspices of the Department of Education) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Working from that specification, Duxbury Systems developed an automated braille translation system for Arabic, believed to be the first anywhere, which was installed at MECWB in 1982. That original form of the system, designed for DBT as it ran on minicomputers of the early 1980s, was used with only minor updates until the late 1990s. The present tables have been updated to work with the much more advanced Windows version of DBT, to incorporate facilities for embedded English as well as Arabic, and to reflect feedback from more recent users. Duxbury Systems is grateful to Mr. Mohammed Ramadan of Nattiq Technologies for translating the relevant portions of "Modern Arabic Braille System" (October 2002) and for his further assistance in understanding and arranging for testing of the changes introduced in that revision. The rules for contracted literary English generally follow British practice as of 2009 but embedded "computer braille", if used, follows the American CBC code. (Documentation reviewed April 2010) http://www.duxburysystems.com/lan_arabic.asp Doug Hayman Senior Computer Specialist DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology) UW Technology Services Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 221-4165 http://www.washington.edu/doit On Tue, 13 May 2014, Asha Kinney wrote: > Greetings Athen List: > > We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be taking a course in Arabic this fall. > > Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? > > I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to wrap my head around the translation process. > > I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. > > Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. > > Thanks! > > Asha Kinney > Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology > Hampshire College > Amherst, MA 01002 > akinney@hampshire.edu > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From hkramer at colorado.edu Tue May 13 09:24:03 2014 From: hkramer at colorado.edu (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] recommendations for tool compatible with screenreader for creating screencasts Message-ID: I'm working with a blind student who wants to develop an online course. This will require the creation of screencasts. I would guess using PowerPoint with the built in recording function would be the method most compatible and feasible with a screenreader. Does anyone else have experience with this or recommendations? Thanks, 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 skeegan at stanford.edu Tue May 13 11:03:38 2014 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> Hi Asha, We did production work for Chinese braille a few years ago and it was a very educational experience (particularly around costs!). In short, we did the following: 1) We began by outsourcing the initial production work with contractor (starting at $400 per print page - ugh!) so we could have some materials ready at the start of the academic quarter for the student. 2) At the same time, we had an alt format staff member knowledgable in braille and, separately, literate in Mandarin. Luckily, the student was taking Mandarin, so our alt format staff member began learning the Chinese braille format. This was not easy as there were a number of different websites with conflicting information, but once we found accurate information, the process began to go more smoothly. 3) When our internal production was running, we shifted the majority of production from the contractor to in-house. We still did contract out some work, but that content was not time-sensitive. 4) For braille production, we converted Chinese characters (hanzi) into pinyin and did basic formatting in MS Word. With the pinyin in MS Word, we then imported into Duxbury. We did some extra work to include the tones back into the braille version of the document (there are four tones in Mandarin Chinese used to clarify the word). Normally, the tones are omitted in Chinese braille, but as the student was learning the language he preferred to include these elements. 5) As several of the books we converted were both English and Chinese, we did have to come up with basic formatting rules with the student. The Chinese braille was in grade 1, whereas English parts of the textbook were done in grade 2. We could not find a braille manual we could read regarding how to format academic materials and so we used some BANA formatting. The catch was that some of the formatting overlapped at times with the Chinese braille characters, so we worked with the student to standardize the formatting (e.g., line overruns, language changes, etc.). Due to the differences in the language, there may or may not be some overlap. In our experience, it was MUCH easier to have a transcriber literate in the language and then for that person to learn the braille equivalent. If you do not have access to a transcriber on staff that is familiar with Arabic and/or braille, then outsourcing may be the best option. Another consideration may be to hire a person as a contract staff member - it could be much cheaper in the long run than trying out outsource everything. While Duxbury does make the conversion process simpler, do not expect Duxbury to get everything perfect. It does a good job, but we felt it was necessary to have a person reviewing the content for accuracy. Hope this helps. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asha Kinney" To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:49:32 AM Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Greetings Athen List: We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be taking a course in Arabic this fall. Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to wrap my head around the translation process. I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. Thanks! Asha Kinney Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From gdietrich at htctu.net Tue May 13 11:30:06 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> References: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <014d01cf6ed9$5d60b050$182210f0$@htctu.net> Someone asked about Arabic a few years ago (Angie? Theresa? I was thinking it was one of you...). I did some research at that time on OCR programs, TTS programs, and fonts for Arabic. The nice thing about Arabic (as opposed to some of the Asian languages) is that you do not have to Anglicize the writing. You keep the Arabic letters. You would use the Arabic translation table in Dux for the conversion. There are two translation tables, apparently because, as was suggested, the rules for Arabic have changed, and that I do not know about. You might check with the instructor about that. There is a foreign language transcription manual available from NBA: https://store.nationalbraille.org/product.aspx?pid=375 There is also a textbook formatting guide now available: http://www.brailleauthority.org/formats/2011manual-web/ The Library of Congress has a nice list of foreign language resources: http://www.loc.gov/nls/foreignlanguage/index.html For the OCR and fonts, I would probably start by looking at Sakhr. They seem to have the most complete solutions. (See links below.) Arabic OCR: http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-OCR-optical-character-recognition.html http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-nlp-natural-language-processing.html http://aramedia.com/ http://www.leadtools.com/sdk/arabic-ocr.htm?SrcOrigin=Google-CPC-%2Barabic%2 0%2BOCR&MatchType=b&gclid=CPjPmIDmrqoCFQg_bAodlRYK-A Arabic TTS Acapela Voices http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html Sakhr (has ORC and TTS) http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-speech-recognition-and-arabic-TTS.html Translator Software http://www.top4download.com/english-to-arabic-and-arabic-to-english-converte r-software/zjxwfkmx.html Arabic keyboard Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_keyboard Online versions: http://www.yamli.com/arabic-keyboard/ http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/arabic.htm http://arab-key.com/ Good luck!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:04 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Hi Asha, We did production work for Chinese braille a few years ago and it was a very educational experience (particularly around costs!). In short, we did the following: 1) We began by outsourcing the initial production work with contractor (starting at $400 per print page - ugh!) so we could have some materials ready at the start of the academic quarter for the student. 2) At the same time, we had an alt format staff member knowledgable in braille and, separately, literate in Mandarin. Luckily, the student was taking Mandarin, so our alt format staff member began learning the Chinese braille format. This was not easy as there were a number of different websites with conflicting information, but once we found accurate information, the process began to go more smoothly. 3) When our internal production was running, we shifted the majority of production from the contractor to in-house. We still did contract out some work, but that content was not time-sensitive. 4) For braille production, we converted Chinese characters (hanzi) into pinyin and did basic formatting in MS Word. With the pinyin in MS Word, we then imported into Duxbury. We did some extra work to include the tones back into the braille version of the document (there are four tones in Mandarin Chinese used to clarify the word). Normally, the tones are omitted in Chinese braille, but as the student was learning the language he preferred to include these elements. 5) As several of the books we converted were both English and Chinese, we did have to come up with basic formatting rules with the student. The Chinese braille was in grade 1, whereas English parts of the textbook were done in grade 2. We could not find a braille manual we could read regarding how to format academic materials and so we used some BANA formatting. The catch was that some of the formatting overlapped at times with the Chinese braille characters, so we worked with the student to standardize the formatting (e.g., line overruns, language changes, etc.). Due to the differences in the language, there may or may not be some overlap. In our experience, it was MUCH easier to have a transcriber literate in the language and then for that person to learn the braille equivalent. If you do not have access to a transcriber on staff that is familiar with Arabic and/or braille, then outsourcing may be the best option. Another consideration may be to hire a person as a contract staff member - it could be much cheaper in the long run than trying out outsource everything. While Duxbury does make the conversion process simpler, do not expect Duxbury to get everything perfect. It does a good job, but we felt it was necessary to have a person reviewing the content for accuracy. Hope this helps. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asha Kinney" To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:49:32 AM Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Greetings Athen List: We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be taking a course in Arabic this fall. Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to wrap my head around the translation process. I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. Thanks! Asha Kinney Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From mstores at indiana.edu Tue May 13 11:37:42 2014 From: mstores at indiana.edu (Stores, Mary A.) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> References: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <064E45D161E0094A84CB7C4AE99ED5C710D5B31E@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> Hello Asha, We have done some Arabic braille transcription at IU. We found a person who could speak Arabic fluently and had her edit the scanned documents to make sure they were accurate. The Arabic-speaking editor then saved the files as Word files, where they could be imported into Duxbury. Then, because the student we produced Arabic braille for was blind and from a country where Arabic is spoken, we asked the student to come and read the documents. Duxbury has two translation tables for Arabic, and we wanted to make sure we were using the correct one for him. Our student said that the Arabic Pre-2002 Rules translation table worked the best for him, versus the Arabic translation table. So that is what we used. If I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to write me off list or call. Mary Mary Stores, Senior Alternate Format Specialist UITS Adaptive Technology and Accessibility Centers Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington 1320 E. 10th St. Wells Library, Room 305 Bloomington, IN 47405 (812) 856-2760 mstores@indiana.edu http://iuadapts.indiana.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Hi Asha, We did production work for Chinese braille a few years ago and it was a very educational experience (particularly around costs!). In short, we did the following: 1) We began by outsourcing the initial production work with contractor (starting at $400 per print page - ugh!) so we could have some materials ready at the start of the academic quarter for the student. 2) At the same time, we had an alt format staff member knowledgable in braille and, separately, literate in Mandarin. Luckily, the student was taking Mandarin, so our alt format staff member began learning the Chinese braille format. This was not easy as there were a number of different websites with conflicting information, but once we found accurate information, the process began to go more smoothly. 3) When our internal production was running, we shifted the majority of production from the contractor to in-house. We still did contract out some work, but that content was not time-sensitive. 4) For braille production, we converted Chinese characters (hanzi) into pinyin and did basic formatting in MS Word. With the pinyin in MS Word, we then imported into Duxbury. We did some extra work to include the tones back into the braille version of the document (there are four tones in Mandarin Chinese used to clarify the word). Normally, the tones are omitted in Chinese braille, but as the student was learning the language he preferred to include these elements. 5) As several of the books we converted were both English and Chinese, we did have to come up with basic formatting rules with the student. The Chinese braille was in grade 1, whereas English parts of the textbook were done in grade 2. We could not find a braille manual we could read regarding how to format academic materials and so we used some BANA formatting. The catch was that some of the formatting overlapped at times with the Chinese braille characters, so we worked with the student to standardize the formatting (e.g., line overruns, language changes, etc.). Due to the differences in the language, there may or may not be some overlap. In our experience, it was MUCH easier to have a transcriber literate in the language and then for that person to learn the braille equivalent. If you do not have access to a transcriber on staff that is familiar with Arabic and/or braille, then outsourcing may be the best option. Another consideration may be to hire a person as a contract staff member - it could be much cheaper in the long run than trying out outsource everything. While Duxbury does make the conversion process simpler, do not expect Duxbury to get everything perfect. It does a good job, but we felt it was necessary to have a person reviewing the content for accuracy. Hope this helps. Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University ----- Original Message ----- From: "Asha Kinney" To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:49:32 AM Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic Greetings Athen List: We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be taking a course in Arabic this fall. Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to wrap my head around the translation process. I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. Thanks! Asha Kinney Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From blrichwine at gmail.com Tue May 13 11:59:00 2014 From: blrichwine at gmail.com (Brian Richwine) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: <014d01cf6ed9$5d60b050$182210f0$@htctu.net> References: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> <014d01cf6ed9$5d60b050$182210f0$@htctu.net> Message-ID: To add to those resources, ABBYY makes a special version of the ABBYY Finereader program that recognizes Arabic. We've used it in house a bit. -Brian On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gaeir Dietrich wrote: > Someone asked about Arabic a few years ago (Angie? Theresa? I was thinking > it was one of you...). > > I did some research at that time on OCR programs, TTS programs, and fonts > for Arabic. > > The nice thing about Arabic (as opposed to some of the Asian languages) is > that you do not have to Anglicize the writing. You keep the Arabic letters. > You would use the Arabic translation table in Dux for the conversion. There > are two translation tables, apparently because, as was suggested, the rules > for Arabic have changed, and that I do not know about. You might check with > the instructor about that. > > There is a foreign language transcription manual available from NBA: > https://store.nationalbraille.org/product.aspx?pid=375 > > There is also a textbook formatting guide now available: > http://www.brailleauthority.org/formats/2011manual-web/ > > The Library of Congress has a nice list of foreign language resources: > http://www.loc.gov/nls/foreignlanguage/index.html > > For the OCR and fonts, I would probably start by looking at Sakhr. They > seem > to have the most complete solutions. (See links below.) > > Arabic OCR: > > http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-OCR-optical-character-recognition.html > > http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-nlp-natural-language-processing.html > > http://aramedia.com/ > > > http://www.leadtools.com/sdk/arabic-ocr.htm?SrcOrigin=Google-CPC-%2Barabic%2 > 0%2BOCR&MatchType=b&gclid=CPjPmIDmrqoCFQg_bAodlRYK-A > > Arabic TTS > Acapela Voices > http://www.acapela-group.com/text-to-speech-interactive-demo.html > > Sakhr (has ORC and TTS) > > http://international.sakhr.com/arabic-speech-recognition-and-arabic-TTS.html > > > Translator Software > > http://www.top4download.com/english-to-arabic-and-arabic-to-english-converte > r-software/zjxwfkmx.html > > Arabic keyboard > Info: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_keyboard > > Online versions: > http://www.yamli.com/arabic-keyboard/ > http://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/arabic.htm > http://arab-key.com/ > > Good luck!! > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich > 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On > Behalf Of Sean J Keegan > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:04 AM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic > > Hi Asha, > > We did production work for Chinese braille a few years ago and it was a > very > educational experience (particularly around costs!). In short, we did the > following: > > 1) We began by outsourcing the initial production work with contractor > (starting at $400 per print page - ugh!) so we could have some materials > ready at the start of the academic quarter for the student. > > 2) At the same time, we had an alt format staff member knowledgable in > braille and, separately, literate in Mandarin. Luckily, the student was > taking Mandarin, so our alt format staff member began learning the Chinese > braille format. This was not easy as there were a number of different > websites with conflicting information, but once we found accurate > information, the process began to go more smoothly. > > 3) When our internal production was running, we shifted the majority of > production from the contractor to in-house. We still did contract out some > work, but that content was not time-sensitive. > > 4) For braille production, we converted Chinese characters (hanzi) into > pinyin and did basic formatting in MS Word. With the pinyin in MS Word, we > then imported into Duxbury. We did some extra work to include the tones > back > into the braille version of the document (there are four tones in Mandarin > Chinese used to clarify the word). Normally, the tones are omitted in > Chinese braille, but as the student was learning the language he preferred > to include these elements. > > 5) As several of the books we converted were both English and Chinese, we > did have to come up with basic formatting rules with the student. The > Chinese braille was in grade 1, whereas English parts of the textbook were > done in grade 2. We could not find a braille manual we could read regarding > how to format academic materials and so we used some BANA formatting. The > catch was that some of the formatting overlapped at times with the Chinese > braille characters, so we worked with the student to standardize the > formatting (e.g., line overruns, language changes, etc.). > > Due to the differences in the language, there may or may not be some > overlap. In our experience, it was MUCH easier to have a transcriber > literate in the language and then for that person to learn the braille > equivalent. If you do not have access to a transcriber on staff that is > familiar with Arabic and/or braille, then outsourcing may be the best > option. Another consideration may be to hire a person as a contract staff > member - it could be much cheaper in the long run than trying out outsource > everything. While Duxbury does make the conversion process simpler, do not > expect Duxbury to get everything perfect. It does a good job, but we felt > it > was necessary to have a person reviewing the content for accuracy. > > Hope this helps. > > Take care, > Sean > > > Sean Keegan > Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - > Stanford University > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Asha Kinney" > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:49:32 AM > Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic > > Greetings Athen List: > > We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be > taking a course in Arabic this fall. > > Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a > special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, > Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? > > I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has > volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying > to > wrap my head around the translation process. > > I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if > it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we > could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. > > Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to > reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. > > Thanks! > > Asha Kinney > Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire > College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jeffreydell99 at gmail.com Wed May 14 05:08:20 2014 From: jeffreydell99 at gmail.com (Jeffrey Dell) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic In-Reply-To: <064E45D161E0094A84CB7C4AE99ED5C710D5B31E@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> References: <3F1D50C5-739D-49C2-A642-F7DC1C3C0F08@stanford.edu> <064E45D161E0094A84CB7C4AE99ED5C710D5B31E@IU-MSSG-MBX102.ads.iu.edu> Message-ID: We setup accommodations for Japanese for a blind student. Arabic is quite different from Japanese but some of the ideas may work. The student was a JAWS user so we purchase the Japanese localized version of JAWS for the student to use. It would read all characters and IME typing dialogs as well as present Tenji Japanese Braille on a standard refreshable braille display. This was much cheaper than transcribing the book into braille. It also helped with learning the characters used in Japanese Tenji braille that we could not find online. For many courses where you learn a language you are also expected to use a translation dictionary to help with your writing. We tested some online translation dictionaries to find some that would work well with JAWS. We prepared a document that showed the Japanese characters and their braille equivalent. This document was created in Word using the IME Japanese keyboard and the braille fonts from Duxbury for the braille symbols. This was then printed onto thermoform paper. We also used that document as a reference to manually transcribe some handouts that were more appropriate for printed form. Because of the nature of language learning textbooks we found OCR to not be accurate enough with structure to save time in document creation. We hired a student from Japan to type out the book and recreate the tables of vocabulary. We also had a student with low vision in the same class. This student just used a CCTV for reading the materials. That student used electronic texts occasionally but was not interested in them for this course. Hopefully that helps. If you have any questions you can reach me off list at j.dell@csuohio.edu Cath in Colorado has a lot of experience with these types of languages too. Jeff On 5/13/14, Stores, Mary A. wrote: > Hello Asha, > > We have done some Arabic braille transcription at IU. We found a person who > could speak Arabic fluently and had her edit the scanned documents to make > sure they were accurate. The Arabic-speaking editor then saved the files as > Word files, where they could be imported into Duxbury. Then, because the > student we produced Arabic braille for was blind and from a country where > Arabic is spoken, we asked the student to come and read the documents. > Duxbury has two translation tables for Arabic, and we wanted to make sure we > were using the correct one for him. Our student said that the Arabic > Pre-2002 Rules translation table worked the best for him, versus the Arabic > translation table. So that is what we used. > > If I can be of any further assistance, please feel free to write me off list > or call. > > Mary > > > Mary Stores, Senior Alternate Format Specialist UITS Adaptive Technology and > Accessibility Centers Indiana University, Indianapolis and Bloomington > 1320 E. 10th St. Wells Library, Room 305 Bloomington, IN 47405 > (812) 856-2760 > mstores@indiana.edu > http://iuadapts.indiana.edu > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On > Behalf Of Sean J Keegan > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 2:04 PM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic > > Hi Asha, > > We did production work for Chinese braille a few years ago and it was a very > educational experience (particularly around costs!). In short, we did the > following: > > 1) We began by outsourcing the initial production work with contractor > (starting at $400 per print page - ugh!) so we could have some materials > ready at the start of the academic quarter for the student. > > 2) At the same time, we had an alt format staff member knowledgable in > braille and, separately, literate in Mandarin. Luckily, the student was > taking Mandarin, so our alt format staff member began learning the Chinese > braille format. This was not easy as there were a number of different > websites with conflicting information, but once we found accurate > information, the process began to go more smoothly. > > 3) When our internal production was running, we shifted the majority of > production from the contractor to in-house. We still did contract out some > work, but that content was not time-sensitive. > > 4) For braille production, we converted Chinese characters (hanzi) into > pinyin and did basic formatting in MS Word. With the pinyin in MS Word, we > then imported into Duxbury. We did some extra work to include the tones back > into the braille version of the document (there are four tones in Mandarin > Chinese used to clarify the word). Normally, the tones are omitted in > Chinese braille, but as the student was learning the language he preferred > to include these elements. > > 5) As several of the books we converted were both English and Chinese, we > did have to come up with basic formatting rules with the student. The > Chinese braille was in grade 1, whereas English parts of the textbook were > done in grade 2. We could not find a braille manual we could read regarding > how to format academic materials and so we used some BANA formatting. The > catch was that some of the formatting overlapped at times with the Chinese > braille characters, so we worked with the student to standardize the > formatting (e.g., line overruns, language changes, etc.). > > Due to the differences in the language, there may or may not be some > overlap. In our experience, it was MUCH easier to have a transcriber > literate in the language and then for that person to learn the braille > equivalent. If you do not have access to a transcriber on staff that is > familiar with Arabic and/or braille, then outsourcing may be the best > option. Another consideration may be to hire a person as a contract staff > member - it could be much cheaper in the long run than trying out outsource > everything. While Duxbury does make the conversion process simpler, do not > expect Duxbury to get everything perfect. It does a good job, but we felt it > was necessary to have a person reviewing the content for accuracy. > > Hope this helps. > > Take care, > Sean > > > Sean Keegan > Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - > Stanford University > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Asha Kinney" > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:49:32 AM > Subject: [Athen] Advice Sought for Student Learning Arabic > > Greetings Athen List: > > We have a student with a visual impairment who reads in braille and will be > taking a course in Arabic this fall. > > Has anyone ever dealt with a student learning another language which uses a > special character set and/or has its own unique braille code? Arabic, > Chinese, Greek, Japanese, etc?? > > I would appreciate any and all advice. This extremely motivated student has > volunteered learn the Arabic braille code over the summer but I am trying to > wrap my head around the translation process. > > I'm also wondering what the most useful approach would actually be, and if > it's even braille-based at all. This student does have limited vision so we > could also make use of enlarged graphics, as well as tactile ones, etc. > > Any other thoughts, stories, advice, or referrals welcome! Feel free to > reply off-list and I am happy to compile responses and share. > > Thanks! > > Asha Kinney > Assistant Director of IT - Instructional and Assistive Technology Hampshire > College Amherst, MA 01002 akinney@hampshire.edu > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From bryantm at seminolestate.edu Wed May 14 06:02:21 2014 From: bryantm at seminolestate.edu (Marshall S Bryant) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Spanish-English dictionary app for a blind user Message-ID: <128B6AFEFDD7764698DF3F90D0230C31ACD80189@exch-m2.prod.ssc.local> Hi All, Any ideas for a good Spanish to English dictionary Android app for a blind user? 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We've also tried training words and phrases in the Vocabulary tool, and correcting mistakes with the correction options, but Dragon continues to inaccurately dictate most words/phrases he says, even after they have been trained and corrected. Does anyone have any tips or strategies that have worked for students with similar situations to increase the accuracy of Dragon? He is able to use a head set microphone (we're using a Cyber Acoustics brand...), and he is using Dragon 12 Professional for Windows. Thanks for any recommendations! Shannon ---------------------------------------------------- Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR Service Coordinator/Provider, Assistive Technology Resource Center 307 Occupational Therapy Building Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu www.atrc.colostate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From norm.coombs at gmail.com Wed May 14 13:52:44 2014 From: norm.coombs at gmail.com (Prof Norm Coombs) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] recommendations for tool compatible with screenreader for creating screencasts In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5373d7a4.8ab03c0a.717e.ffff8303@mx.google.com> Howard: I often have a need to get screen shots of this or that to include in some of what I do online. There are tools that I can use with JAWS. I can navigate the controls and get something saved. The problem, being unable to see the actual screen I'm not sure what is being captured. JAWS often transforms the screen into a virtual replica and then I'm never sure what will be captured. And then, of course, I can't evaluate what got captured or know its quality. I can do it, but I'm not totally sure of what I am capturing or of what I actually captured. I find I have a colleague with sight to actually make the capture. I have used a utility which lets me save a sequence of PowerPoint slides and simultaneously record audio to go with it. In that I made the PowerPoint, I have a fair idea of what the end result will be like, but when it comes to capturing something done by soneone else I'm never totally certain of it. Hopefully someone will have a better solution so I can learn too. Norm At 09:24 AM 5/13/2014, you wrote: >I'm working with a blind student who wants to develop an online >course. This will require the creation of screencasts. I would guess >using PowerPoint with the built in recording function would be the >method most compatible and feasible with a screenreader. Does anyone >else have experience with this or recommendations? > >Thanks, >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 >_______________________________________________ >athen-list mailing list >athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu >http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paire at temple.edu Wed May 14 14:33:02 2014 From: paire at temple.edu (Paul E. Paire) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Summon 2.0 and accessibility ... In-Reply-To: <9D8D3F65EADC0844939399EC1C6F42D54043EEDE@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu> References: <9D8D3F65EADC0844939399EC1C6F42D54043EEDE@BigThunder.catnet.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <3BDAB0D17C965648940B90D4B59685C79CCBD088@exch14-mb1.tu.temple.edu> I asked one of our librarians, and his response is: [quote] Summon 2.0 has known accessibility issues and these are acknowledged by Serials Solutions/Proquest. The current support center doc states, "The legacy Summon interface [v.1.0] is compliant with international standards for accessibility, including the ADA/508 standard and almost all components of W3C guidelines. In development is accessibility for the Summon 2.0 interface." ProQuest has pushed the 'mandatory' Summon 2.0 adoption date to at least August 2015. It is possible that this extension is in part due to unhappiness at the accessibility situation on the part of a number of users. We do not have a timetable on the remediation of the new version. [/quote] -Paul From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Bishop, Jeff - (jeffbis) Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 2:17 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Summon 2.0 and accessibility ... Hello, We are looking at going live with Summon version 2.0 in July of this year. Have any other Universities done any testing of Summon from an accessibility perspective by chance? We have started in this process and would love to work with others to insure we cast a wide net in finding any issues there might be in the system. Thanks so much for any help. Jeff ----- Jeff Bishop Disability Resource Center IT Accessibility Analyst http://drc.arizona.edu Phone: 520-626-1145 Fax : 520-626-5500 Email Address: jeffbis@email.arizona.edu Address: The University of Arizona Building 95 Room #: 217C 1224 E Lowell St. Tucson, AZ 85721-0095 -- The opinions or statements expressed herein are my own and should not be taken as a position, opinion, or endorsement of The University of Arizona. The information contained in this e-mail message is privileged and confidential information, intended only for the use of the specific individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copy of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hkramer at ahead.org Thu May 15 09:57:18 2014 From: hkramer at ahead.org (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] recommendations for tool compatible with screenreader for creating screencasts In-Reply-To: <5373d7a4.8ab03c0a.717e.ffff8303@mx.google.com> References: <5373d7a4.8ab03c0a.717e.ffff8303@mx.google.com> Message-ID: Thanks Norm. I'll pass this along to the student. -Howard On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Prof Norm Coombs wrote: > Howard: > > I often have a need to get screen shots of this or that to include in some > of what I do online. There are tools that I can use with JAWS. I can > navigate the controls and get something saved. > The problem, being unable to see the actual screen I'm not sure what is > being captured. JAWS often transforms the screen into a virtual replica and > then I'm never sure what will be captured. And then, of course, I can't > evaluate what got captured or know its quality. > > I can do it, but I'm not totally sure of what I am capturing or of what I > actually captured. I find I have a colleague with sight to actually make > the capture. > > I have used a utility which lets me save a sequence of PowerPoint slides > and simultaneously record audio to go with it. In that I made the > PowerPoint, I have a fair idea of what the end result will be like, but > when it comes to capturing something done by soneone else I'm never totally > certain of it. > > Hopefully someone will have a better solution so I can learn too. > > Norm > > At 09:24 AM 5/13/2014, you wrote: > > I'm working with a blind student who wants to develop an online course. > This will require the creation of screencasts. I would guess using > PowerPoint with the built in recording function would be the method most > compatible and feasible with a screenreader. Does anyone else have > experience with this or recommendations? > > Thanks, > 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 > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -- Howard Kramer Conference Coordinator Accessing Higher Ground 303-492-8672 cell: 720-351-8668 AHEAD Association of Higher Education and Disability -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hkramer at ahead.org Thu May 15 09:59:40 2014 From: hkramer at ahead.org (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] recommendations for tool compatible with screenreader for creating screencasts In-Reply-To: <5373d7a4.8ab03c0a.717e.ffff8303@mx.google.com> References: <5373d7a4.8ab03c0a.717e.ffff8303@mx.google.com> Message-ID: Hi Norm, What is the tool you use for screen capture? And what's the tool you use with PPT for audio recording? Thanks, Howard On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Prof Norm Coombs wrote: > Howard: > > I often have a need to get screen shots of this or that to include in some > of what I do online. There are tools that I can use with JAWS. I can > navigate the controls and get something saved. > The problem, being unable to see the actual screen I'm not sure what is > being captured. JAWS often transforms the screen into a virtual replica and > then I'm never sure what will be captured. And then, of course, I can't > evaluate what got captured or know its quality. > > I can do it, but I'm not totally sure of what I am capturing or of what I > actually captured. I find I have a colleague with sight to actually make > the capture. > > I have used a utility which lets me save a sequence of PowerPoint slides > and simultaneously record audio to go with it. In that I made the > PowerPoint, I have a fair idea of what the end result will be like, but > when it comes to capturing something done by soneone else I'm never totally > certain of it. > > Hopefully someone will have a better solution so I can learn too. > > Norm > > At 09:24 AM 5/13/2014, you wrote: > > I'm working with a blind student who wants to develop an online course. > This will require the creation of screencasts. I would guess using > PowerPoint with the built in recording function would be the method most > compatible and feasible with a screenreader. Does anyone else have > experience with this or recommendations? > > Thanks, > 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 > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -- Howard Kramer Conference Coordinator Accessing Higher Ground 303-492-8672 cell: 720-351-8668 AHEAD Association of Higher Education and Disability -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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November 17-21, 2014* AHG 2014 is now accepting second-round proposals for its 17th Annual Conference in Westminster, Colorado. *AHG focuses on accessible media, universal design, best practices for web & media design, * *accessible curriculum, alternate format and other topics **related to accessibility* *in higher education and other environments. * *The 2nd-round proposal submission deadline is May 27. * *More information and a link to the *onlineproposal form* can be found at *http://accessinghigherground.org/speaker_info2014.html*.* View last year's programto get a sense of conference scope. *Contact Howard Kramer at *hkramer@ahead.org* or 303-492-8672 <303-492-8672> with questions. * -- 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... 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Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ From gdietrich at htctu.net Thu May 15 14:24:30 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: [braille-n-teach] 2 teaching positions open In-Reply-To: <3282B34A71773049B26C5EF2F3DDF4BC49A40799@DCNMSG03.sssd.ca.gov> References: <3282B34A71773049B26C5EF2F3DDF4BC49A40799@DCNMSG03.sssd.ca.gov> Message-ID: <010201cf7084$0fa02060$2ee06120$@htctu.net> The AT specialist at the California School for the Blind is retiring. It's a very good position if anyone is interested. Please see below. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: bounce-1369175-19082@mlist.cde.ca.gov [mailto:bounce-1369175-19082@mlist.cde.ca.gov] On Behalf Of Ann Linville Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 1:14 PM To: Gaeir Dietrich Subject: [braille-n-teach] 2 teaching positions open Hi All, The transition program at the California School for the Blind has 2 teaching positions open. All interested candidates should send a resume to me by June 6th at: California School for the Blind, 500 Walnut Avenue, Fremont, CA 94536. Ann M Linville Director of Transition Services California School for the Blind 510-794-3800 ext. 262 --- You are currently subscribed to braille-n-teach as: gdietrich@htctu.net . 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GREEAR) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] CU-Boulder student seeks accessibility through federal complaint Message-ID: "According to a February letter from the justice department to CU, students say they can't access textbooks; campus email; websites for homework and course content; signs around campus; and a portal to register for classes, pay bills and set up meetings with advisers." http://www.coloradodaily.com/cu-news/ci_25764266/cu-boulder-student-seeks-accessibility-through-federal-complaint Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michele.bromley at pdx.edu Fri May 16 09:55:15 2014 From: michele.bromley at pdx.edu (Michele Bromley) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Adaptive Technology Policies Message-ID: Hello all, My department is in the process of conducting an in-house self-assessment according to CAS standards. One of the technology standards reads: "The [DRC] provides access to policies on technology use that are clear, easy to understand, and available to students." We are updating both our adaptive technology software and website at this time. Our goal with regard to the website is to list 1) all technology that is available through our office, 2) locations where this technology may be accessed, and 3) online resources for training and use. My questions are as follows: - What are your policies on technology use (if you have them)? - As a follow up, what information do you include on your adaptive technology website? Thank you for your recommendations! *Michele Joy Bromley* Inclusive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Portland State University Office: 116 SMSU Phone: (503) 725-8395 Fax: (503) 725-4103 Email: michele.bromley@pdx.edu Website: www.pdx.edu/drc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Fri May 16 11:22:22 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dragon for student with CP In-Reply-To: <8ECA43D20640F4449329B3CAE767661A66D97E20@ex23.colostate.edu> References: <8ECA43D20640F4449329B3CAE767661A66D97E20@ex23.colostate.edu> Message-ID: <016201cf7133$c8d66bc0$5a834340$@htctu.net> With patience, Dragon can be trained to understand most speech patterns-as long as they are consistent-and if that were the only issue, you are doing all the right things. If the individual's speech is not consistent, however, it is pretty much impossible for the current versions of Dragon to learn to recognize that person's speech accurately. In the case of inconsistent speech, the best option is to look for one of the really old versions of Dragon Dictate. The original version was much more forgiving of inconsistent speech and will sometimes work when the newer versions fail. Please note that in order to run the older version, you will have to use compatibility mode in Windows. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 12:30 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] Dragon for student with CP Hello all, I'm working with a student with cerebral palsy who has both motor and speech impairments. He's very motivated to try Dragon, but I'm finding that the program is having a lot of difficulty understanding and dictating his speech. When setting up his voice profile, we had to use the "training without prompts" option due to his speech. We've also tried training words and phrases in the Vocabulary tool, and correcting mistakes with the correction options, but Dragon continues to inaccurately dictate most words/phrases he says, even after they have been trained and corrected. Does anyone have any tips or strategies that have worked for students with similar situations to increase the accuracy of Dragon? He is able to use a head set microphone (we're using a Cyber Acoustics brand.), and he is using Dragon 12 Professional for Windows. Thanks for any recommendations! Shannon ---------------------------------------------------- Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR Service Coordinator/Provider, Assistive Technology Resource Center 307 Occupational Therapy Building Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu www.atrc.colostate.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lissner.2 at osu.edu Fri May 16 12:17:31 2014 From: lissner.2 at osu.edu (Lissner, L S. (Scott )) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Adaptive Technology Policies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Web design standars? From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Michele Bromley Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 12:55 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Adaptive Technology Policies Hello all, My department is in the process of conducting an in-house self-assessment according to CAS standards. One of the technology standards reads: "The [DRC] provides access to policies on technology use that are clear, easy to understand, and available to students." We are updating both our adaptive technology software and website at this time. Our goal with regard to the website is to list 1) all technology that is available through our office, 2) locations where this technology may be accessed, and 3) online resources for training and use. My questions are as follows: * What are your policies on technology use (if you have them)? * As a follow up, what information do you include on your adaptive technology website? Thank you for your recommendations! Michele Joy Bromley Inclusive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Portland State University Office: 116 SMSU Phone: (503) 725-8395 Fax: (503) 725-4103 Email: michele.bromley@pdx.edu Website: www.pdx.edu/drc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you for your recommendations! *Michele Joy Bromley* Inclusive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Portland State University Office: 116 SMSU Phone: (503) 725-8395 Fax: (503) 725-4103 Email: michele.bromley@pdx.edu Website: www.pdx.edu/drc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michele.bromley at pdx.edu Fri May 16 16:49:41 2014 From: michele.bromley at pdx.edu (Michele Bromley) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] The R Project for Blind Users Message-ID: Hello all, Has anyone had any experience with *The R Project for Statistical Computing*? We have a blind student interested in using this software. The student is familiar with Jonathon Godrey's essay "Statistical Software from a Blind Person's Perspective," but the student is specifically wondering how to view R output, spreadsheets, and graphics most easily. I am unfamiliar with statistics software, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Thank you for any recommendations! *Michele Joy Bromley* Inclusive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Portland State University Office: 116 SMSU Phone: (503) 725-8395 Fax: (503) 725-4103 Email: michele.bromley@pdx.edu Website: www.pdx.edu/drc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gardnerj at onid.orst.edu Fri May 16 17:10:05 2014 From: gardnerj at onid.orst.edu (John Gardner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] The R Project for Blind Users In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <000001cf7164$5b7ada80$12708f80$@orst.edu> Michele, Jonathan is a very nice guy and would be happy to answer questions for your student. If you have a ViewPlus Tiger embosser, the graphs output by R emboss perfectly, though the legends do not emboss as braille. Jonathan is trying to persuade the R people to permit fonts to be changed, in which case, one could change them and emboss that text as either computer braille or DotsPlus braille. Ditto for the spreadsheets. John From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Michele Bromley Sent: Friday, May 16, 2014 4:50 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] The R Project for Blind Users Hello all, Has anyone had any experience with The R Project for Statistical Computing? We have a blind student interested in using this software. The student is familiar with Jonathon Godrey's essay "Statistical Software from a Blind Person's Perspective," but the student is specifically wondering how to view R output, spreadsheets, and graphics most easily. I am unfamiliar with statistics software, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Thank you for any recommendations! Michele Joy Bromley Inclusive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Portland State University Office: 116 SMSU Phone: (503) 725-8395 Fax: (503) 725-4103 Email: michele.bromley@pdx.edu Website: www.pdx.edu/drc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Sun May 18 08:50:36 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: "On Course" website launched In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <008201cf72b0$e9a503b0$bcef0b10$@htctu.net> Subject: "On Course" website launched Greetings all, CAST has a new website: "On Course: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education" (http://udloncourse.cast.org). This site contains a series of resources designed to help postsecondary institutions improve instruction through Universal Design for Learning (UDL). You can read the press release about the new site here: http://www.cast.org/about/news/2014-05-14.html. Built with responsive design to allow optimal viewing on mobile, laptop, and desktop devices, On Course focuses on the implementation of UDL at the postsecondary level in five areas: (1) Assessment, (2) Improving Institutional Policies and Practices, (3) Selecting Media and Technology, (4) Planning Your Course, and (5) Teaching Approaches. Each area contains resources that demonstrate ways to address learner variability in an effort to improve learning opportunities, retention, and outcomes. On Course is a project of the Open Professionals Education Network (OPEN), a collaborative of CAST, Creative Commons, the Open Learning Initiative at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon, and the Washington State Board for Community & Technical Colleges. 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URL: From ats169 at psu.edu Mon May 19 08:45:21 2014 From: ats169 at psu.edu (Alexa Schriempf) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Google Glass Captioning In-Reply-To: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EDA7B@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> References: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EDA7B@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Message-ID: Hi Jon, I might be missing something, but even before you think about making the receipt of captions mobile (you could do that with a phone, phablet or tablet, not just google glass), the real question is how will you make the production of captions mobile? Unless something's changed, captionists still need to use those special phonetic keyboards on little stands.... On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jon McGough wrote: > Hello all, > > > > We?ve got a student and a real time captioner going on a study abroad that > will have them hiking all a European city. We?re looking for a Bluetooth > solution for a realtime captioner to send captions to Google glasses or the > like. Has anybody successful pulled something like this off? I would > appreciate any feedback you have. > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Jon McGough > > Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students > > University of Washington > > phone: 206.221.8543 > > fax: 206.616.8379 > > > > Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and > is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This > information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate > educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in > accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, > use, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this message in > error, please notify me by telephone or email. > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -- Alexa Schriempf, Access Tech Consultant Office for Disability Services Teaching and Learning with Technology: Accessibility Group Adaptive Technology Services, University Libraries Penn State https://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/ http://equity.psu.edu/ods http://tlt.its.psu.edu/ http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/adaptivetechnologies.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rsthompson2 at ua.edu Mon May 19 09:11:58 2014 From: rsthompson2 at ua.edu (Thompson, Rachel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] CU-Boulder student seeks accessibility through federal complaint In-Reply-To: Message-ID: One of the items mentioned in this letter is digital signage. What suggestions/ideas/steps should an institution consider to make its digital signage content and functionality accessible? Rachel Dr. Rachel S. Thompson Director, Emerging Technology and Accessibility Center for Instructional Technology University of Alabama http://accessibility.ua.edu May 12-13, 2014 | UA System Scholars Institute | http://scholarsinstitute.ua.edu From: "KRISTA L. GREEAR" Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014 at 5:42 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] CU-Boulder student seeks accessibility through federal complaint ?According to a February letter from the justice department to CU, students say they can't access textbooks; campus email; websites for homework and course content; signs around campus; and a portal to register for classes, pay bills and set up meetings with advisers.? http://www.coloradodaily.com/cu-news/ci_25764266/cu-boulder-student-seeks-a ccessibility-through-federal-complaint Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington From askeladden at gmail.com Mon May 19 12:40:56 2014 From: askeladden at gmail.com (Mirabai Knight) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Subject: Google Glass Captioning Message-ID: Hi! I recently gave a talk on this subject at the National Court Reporter Association's TechCon (slides here: http://blog.stenoknight.com/2014/04/wearable-realtime-slides.html). I've got a pair of Glass myself and I've used it to stream captions on an experimental basis, though I admit I haven't yet started using it on the job. The trouble is that it's not yet possible to stream captions via Bluetooth; you have to use a WiFi connection and a service such as StreamText or 1CapApp. If you'd like, I can go into more technical details about everything you have to do, but the main issue is that you need a stable WiFi connection for both the captioner and the Glass wearer. Now, if you have a captioner walking around the city with their machine on a shoulder-mounted harness (as seen here: http://stenoknight.com/demo.html#cartambulatory), and they can either access metropolitan WiFi or can carry a portable 4G modem/hotspot for both their computer and the Glass wearer, you can definitely make it happen. All you need is a reliable cell signal that hopefully won't disconnect and reconnect as they wander around the city. (Unfortunately Streamtext gets very tetchy about dropped connections, and it takes a long time to reconnect once the connection has been dropped). So it might be tricky to do seamlessly, but it's certainly not impossible! Feel free to contact me for more details if you're interested. Yours, Mirabai Knight -- Mirabai Knight, CCP, RDR StenoKnight CART Services 917 576 4989 mkk@stenoknight.com http://stenoknight.com From jondm at uw.edu Mon May 19 13:23:10 2014 From: jondm at uw.edu (Jon McGough) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Google Glass Captioning Message-ID: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EE1BE@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Thank you Alexa, I probably didn't provide quite enough information in my first email. We've got a couple CART providers who wear harnesses to strap on their steno machines, and can walk and type. This study abroad is going to consists of about a dozen sessions that will be two hour walks around London and our CART provider will accompany the student on these sessions. They should be close enough to each other, that I think Bluetooth will work. That's why I'm mostly concerned mostly about the reception of captions. I appreciate your ideas. Thanks so much, Jon Hi Jon, I might be missing something, but even before you think about making the receipt of captions mobile (you could do that with a phone, phablet or tablet, not just google glass), the real question is how will you make the production of captions mobile? Unless something's changed, captionists still need to use those special phonetic keyboards on little stands.... On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jon McGough > wrote: > Hello all, > > > > We?ve got a student and a real time captioner going on a study abroad > that will have them hiking all a European city. We?re looking for a > Bluetooth solution for a realtime captioner to send captions to Google > glasses or the like. Has anybody successful pulled something like > this off? I would appreciate any feedback you have. > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Jon McGough > > Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students > > University of Washington > > phone: 206.221.8543 > > fax: 206.616.8379 Jon McGough Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students University of Washington phone: 206.221.8543 fax: 206.616.8379 Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify me by telephone or email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhayman at u.washington.edu Mon May 19 13:38:15 2014 From: dhayman at u.washington.edu (Doug Hayman) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Google Glass Captioning In-Reply-To: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EE1BE@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> References: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EE1BE@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Message-ID: Jon, We were talking to someone recently who said her google glasses kept overheating and shutting down with extensive use at a museum. Wonder if the walking/transcribing person could also wear a screen/tablet on his/her back then stand in front of the person on tour and see the content...or of course the person needing the real time captions holding something like an iPad mini...getting the typed stream via bluetooth. Doug Hayman Senior Computer Specialist DO-IT Program (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, Technology) UW Technology Services Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 (206) 221-4165 http://www.washington.edu/doit On Mon, 19 May 2014, Jon McGough wrote: > Thank you Alexa, > > > > I probably didn't provide quite enough information in my first email. We've got a couple CART providers who wear harnesses to strap on their steno machines, and can walk and type. This study abroad is going to consists of about a dozen sessions that will be two hour walks around London and our CART provider will accompany the student on these sessions. They should be close enough to each other, that I think Bluetooth will work. That's why I'm mostly concerned mostly about the reception of captions. I appreciate your ideas. > > > > Thanks so much, > > > > Jon > > > > Hi Jon, > > > > I might be missing something, but even before you think about making the receipt of captions mobile (you could do that with a phone, phablet or tablet, not just google glass), the real question is how will you make the production of captions mobile? Unless something's changed, captionists still need to use those special phonetic keyboards on little stands.... > > > > > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Jon McGough > wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> > >> > >> > >> We?ve got a student and a real time captioner going on a study abroad > >> that will have them hiking all a European city. We?re looking for a > >> Bluetooth solution for a realtime captioner to send captions to Google > >> glasses or the like. Has anybody successful pulled something like > >> this off? I would appreciate any feedback you have. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks so much! > >> > >> > >> > >> Jon McGough > >> > >> Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students > >> > >> University of Washington > >> > >> phone: 206.221.8543 > >> > >> fax: 206.616.8379 > > > > Jon McGough > > Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students > > University of Washington > > phone: 206.221.8543 > > fax: 206.616.8379 > > Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify me by telephone or email. > > From gdietrich at htctu.net Mon May 19 14:18:44 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] New Resource for Library Access Message-ID: <025201cf73a7$eae67c20$c0b37460$@htctu.net> Please forgive cross-posts *** The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has recently released a Web site on accessibility at ARL libraries: http://accessibility.arl.org/ The site includes resources and promising practices, as well as a link (see below) to the background for ARL's accessibility initiative. This background document, the Report of the ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities, presents a very well-documented case for the need for library involvement in accessibility: 2012 Report of the ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disability Personally, I have always been very impressed with librarians, and I am overjoyed to see the libraries beginning to take an active interest in accessibility. Having them as part of our accessibility team is an enormous step forward! I would like to encourage all of you to share the ARL Web site with your college libraries and, if appropriate, to enter a discussion with your chief librarian and library staff about how they can become part of the accessibility solution on campus. The recent court cases with the Hathi Trust show that the libraries can take a leadership role in creating access to resources that formally provided little benefit to students with print disabilities because of the inaccessible format. Not sure why the Hathi Trust case is important? Consider attending the AHEAD conference, July 14-19, 2014, in Sacramento, CA. A number of us will be including information on the Hathi Trust in our presentations. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6047 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you would like to schedule a site visit, training, or phone consultation, please contact HTCTU Secretary, Jasper Haze at jhaze@htctu.net or 408-996-4636; to ensure that priority e-mails are seen, please copy Jasper on important and time-sensitive matters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The successful candidate will work closely with various areas of the college including Distance Education & Academic Technology, Disability Services, Information Technology, Library Services, Diversity & Equity Office and Instruction & Student Services. The position may also serve as a leader, coach, and consultant to faculty using digital content to enhance teaching and learning in all modes of instruction. Full details are available at the Human Resource site - http://hr.chemeketa.edu/jobopportunities.html. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Mon May 19 16:25:32 2014 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Sprint Message-ID: <039b01cf73b9$a1b7e040$e527a0c0$@htctu.net> Colleagues, We would like to issue an open call to participate in an Accessibility Sprint. The Sprint is an opportunity to bring together practitioners, leaders, and visionaries in the field of accessibility with the goal of promoting collaboration among individuals, institutions, and non-profit organizations to more effectively solve the common challenges that we face in making materials and technology accessible to all individuals. Post-secondary institutions have common accessibility goals, as well as a common desire to collaborate to meet those goals. This Sprint will help to develop an infrastructure for collaboration and effective problem solving. By the end of the Sprint, we hope to create small agile project groups that will work together to develop creative solutions to the accessibility challenges that we all face. . What: Day-long Accessibility Collaborative Sprint on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, during the AHEAD pre-conference in Sacramento, CA . When: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 If you would like to attend this event, please join the Post-secondary Accessibility Collaborative (PAC) list. The list will be a forum for collaborative activities designed to move forward mainstream accessibility. Please feel free to join the list even if you cannot be with us in person at the Sprint. The invitation for the Sprint will be posted to the PAC listserv later this week. To join the listserv and become part of the discussion, please use the link below. . http://htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu/read/all_forums/ . Scroll down to the PAC list. Click the subscribe button to the right of the list name. . The list will send you an e-mail. Please respond to the e-mail to confirm your membership on the list. This project is a collaboration between the California State University Accessible Technology Initiative (CSU ATI) and the High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU). If you know of a colleague who might be interested in this collaborative, please feel free to forward this invitation. If you have questions, please feel free to contact us. Sincerely, Cheryl Pruitt, Director Accessible Technology Initiative cpruitt@calstate.edu 562-951-4384 Gaeir Dietrich, Director High Tech Center Training Unit gdietrich@htctu.net 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6047 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you would like to schedule a site visit, training, or phone consultation, please contact HTCTU Secretary, Jasper Haze at jhaze@htctu.net or 408-996-4636; to ensure that priority e-mails are seen, please copy Jasper on important and time-sensitive matters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eveleigh at oit.umass.edu Tue May 20 06:54:57 2014 From: eveleigh at oit.umass.edu (Rob Eveleigh) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] New Resource for Library Access In-Reply-To: <025201cf73a7$eae67c20$c0b37460$@htctu.net> References: <025201cf73a7$eae67c20$c0b37460$@htctu.net> Message-ID: <9BC469A1DD6B2542ABE8B71F7829541D085DCCE5@oit-ex2010-mb3> I generated a "Key Quotes" list from the 2012 ARL report to share with our campus Tech Access Committee and the UMass Libraries. The quotes are pasted below if you'd like to have a look. The quotes seem to be "library-centric", but many of them can be applied to any campus-wide Tech Access initiative. Best, Rob UMass Amherst eveleigh@umass.edu techaccess > Forums > Discussion Forum > ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities Hi All, Here are links and some key quotes (with emphasis/bold added) from the ARL report we discussed at our meeting last week. Rob Press Release (November 5, 2012) - The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has released the report of its Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities. Report: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/print-disabilities-tfreport02nov12.pdf * "The growing demand for instructional e-content and burgeoning digital library collections requires greater collaboration amongst all institutional partners, including academic leadership, research libraries, disability services, and information technology services. These partners should share knowledge, define roles, and become knowledgeable about print disabilities, in order to effectively serve users, to meet the requirements of federal and provincial law, to fulfill mission, and to move the market." * "Whereas in the past, institutional offices of disability services were the primary facilitators of access to needed research resources and instructional materials, increasingly, the digital environment requires research libraries to be full partners with disability services offices and IT departments to ensure that these electronic resources, when acquired, are fully accessible..." * "There is a growing sense of urgency regarding how best to effectively address these technology-based accessibility challenges... The common practice today is to "fix after the fact," either through scanning and editing printed materials as needed or retrofitting an online service or product well after adoption. This approach is costly for both the library and the institution, and it is not fully effective for individuals with disabilities. Moreover, this approach does not scale to the digital environment. New strategies are required." * "While publishers, database vendors, and device manufacturers are not subject to federal and provincial accessibility law in their role as providers, libraries are subject to these laws and should demand the necessary design elements to serve the print disabled and all patrons equitably." * "Accessibility and universal design considerations should be integrated into the library's technology planning and procurement processes." * "Accessibility should be a central decision factor in choosing information products and services... Universal accessibility should be embedded in future licensed and acquired products and services..." * "E-book accessibility may involve as many as three different considerations: the accessibility of the content, the accessibility of the reading platform, and the accessibility of the device." * "Research libraries should institute a plan to make all future websites, pages, and documents accessible while tackling older web resources over time." * "...accessibility service awareness needs to be a standard part of staff training." * "Research libraries should designate a liaison librarian who can provide or coordinate library assistance for users in partnership with the institution's disability services office and central IT. Research libraries should also provide professional development for all staff to better understand disabilities, including learning disabilities." * "Research libraries should identify a point person to partner with institutional assistive technology experts and information technologists to monitor trends and developments in this area on an ongoing basis..." * "Studies have demonstrated that, in addition to being more sustainable, integrated accessibility features are also far less costly in the long run." From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 5:19 PM To: 'DSP&S Directors Listserver'; ld@htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu; Alt Media List Cc: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] New Resource for Library Access Please forgive cross-posts *** The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has recently released a Web site on accessibility at ARL libraries: http://accessibility.arl.org/ The site includes resources and promising practices, as well as a link (see below) to the background for ARL's accessibility initiative. This background document, the Report of the ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disabilities, presents a very well-documented case for the need for library involvement in accessibility: 2012 Report of the ARL Joint Task Force on Services to Patrons with Print Disability Personally, I have always been very impressed with librarians, and I am overjoyed to see the libraries beginning to take an active interest in accessibility. Having them as part of our accessibility team is an enormous step forward! I would like to encourage all of you to share the ARL Web site with your college libraries and, if appropriate, to enter a discussion with your chief librarian and library staff about how they can become part of the accessibility solution on campus. The recent court cases with the Hathi Trust show that the libraries can take a leadership role in creating access to resources that formally provided little benefit to students with print disabilities because of the inaccessible format. Not sure why the Hathi Trust case is important? Consider attending the AHEAD conference, July 14-19, 2014, in Sacramento, CA. A number of us will be including information on the Hathi Trust in our presentations. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich High Tech Center Training Unit of the California Community Colleges De Anza College, Cupertino, CA www.htctu.net 408-996-6047 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If you would like to schedule a site visit, training, or phone consultation, please contact HTCTU Secretary, Jasper Haze at jhaze@htctu.net or 408-996-4636; to ensure that priority e-mails are seen, please copy Jasper on important and time-sensitive matters. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Which version do you think would work the best for a biology grad student? There is a standard version and then there is a professional and a medical version. In your experience do the basic programs work for graduate students that use a lot of technical terms in their reports?" Suggestions? Thanks, Aura -- "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" Aura Hirschman Senior Counselor Accessibility Resource Center Mitchell Hall B16 3203 N. Downer Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153 (414) 229-5660 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Tue May 20 13:19:27 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Dragon Naturally Speaking - professional and medical versions - question for biology grad student In-Reply-To: <315933122.74773.1400616468721.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> References: <895037693.74368.1400616332734.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> <315933122.74773.1400616468721.JavaMail.root@uwm.edu> Message-ID: <04e901cf7468$cd470c40$67d524c0$@gmail.com> Hi all, Dragon Preferred (or Premium ? may have changed the name of the middle of the three versions available: Student/Preferred or Premium/Professional) will work fine for the grad student. No need to spend $4-500 on the professional version. Best way to customize the vocabulary is for the student to scan in or import vocabulary lists and have Dragon mine the student?s hard drive for new vocabulary. Student can then train pronunciation on the new vocabulary. Also, student can visit various websites, or browse articles online, copy & paste to their hard drive and then import the vocabulary. If you have any specific questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to contact me off list. Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com or harnerw@sou.edu This can be accomplished in a variety of ways From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Aura Hirschman Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:08 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Dragon Naturally Speaking - professional and medical versions - question for biology grad student Hello All. I received this question from a student and have need for input. Can you help? "I wanted to get the dragon software for my computer to help me with writing. Which version do you think would work the best for a biology grad student? There is a standard version and then there is a professional and a medical version. In your experience do the basic programs work for graduate students that use a lot of technical terms in their reports?" Suggestions? Thanks, Aura -- "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" Aura Hirschman Senior Counselor Accessibility Resource Center Mitchell Hall B16 3203 N. Downer Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153 (414) 229-5660 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jondm at uw.edu Tue May 20 16:11:43 2014 From: jondm at uw.edu (Jon McGough) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Captioning others web based content Message-ID: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EF77F@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Hello, Faculty have asked me to caption some Youtube videos that they do not own, and we haven't gotten anywhere trying to contact the owners. Has anyone had luck with overstream.com or the like, getting captions for videos that can't be downloaded? Thanks so much, Jon McGough Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students University of Washington phone: 206.221.8543 fax: 206.616.8379 Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, use, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify me by telephone or email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fosters at sou.edu Tue May 20 16:30:53 2014 From: fosters at sou.edu (Shawn Foster) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:47 2018 Subject: [Athen] Captioning others web based content In-Reply-To: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EF77F@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> References: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EF77F@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Message-ID: Hi Jon: We've found that Amara has been really helpful as a tool. Since you're not modifying the original content, permission is less of an issue. Since it's web-based, too, there's no software costs. We have student workers doing the captioning, we review it... works pretty slick. The only downside is that it can't be shown full-screen with the captions. Best, Shawn *Shawn Foster, MA* Disability Resources Coordinator U-CAM Coordinator *Southern Oregon University* (541)552-6213 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Jon McGough wrote: > Hello, > > > > Faculty have asked me to caption some Youtube videos that they do not own, > and we haven?t gotten anywhere trying to contact the owners. Has anyone > had luck with overstream.com or the like, getting captions for videos > that can?t be downloaded? > > > > Thanks so much, > > > > Jon McGough > > Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students > > University of Washington > > phone: 206.221.8543 > > fax: 206.616.8379 > > > > Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and > is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This > information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate > educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in > accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. 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URL: From mturner at calstate.edu Tue May 20 17:20:22 2014 From: mturner at calstate.edu (Turner, Mark) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Captioning others web based content In-Reply-To: References: <29832ADBA4D9E643B63975C34E5C17145EF77F@UWIT-MBX05.exchange.washington.edu> Message-ID: <5166A2C09BC2D745BE2092DC14282B0D080DD7297E@COWEWEXMB02.csuco> Jon and Shawn, For what it?s worth, Amara?s support site acknowledges the full-screen limitation you mention and suggests that users instead use the browser?s zoom function to enlarge the page containing the video during playback. While this approach is unquestionably kludgy and no substitute for proper player enlargement while retaining captions, some users maystill find it helpful to leverage this option until a more appropriate solution is implemented. See Can I play a video with subtitles in full-screen mode? for more details. Amara also offers an Accessibility Roadmap on their website that may be of interest. Best, Mark Turner, M.A. Associate Director, Accessible Technology Initiative CSU Office of the Chancellor (562) 951-4353 voice (562) 951-4857 fax mturner@calstate.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Foster Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 4:31 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Captioning others web based content Hi Jon: We've found that Amara has been really helpful as a tool. Since you're not modifying the original content, permission is less of an issue. Since it's web-based, too, there's no software costs. We have student workers doing the captioning, we review it... works pretty slick. The only downside is that it can't be shown full-screen with the captions. Best, Shawn Shawn Foster, MA Disability Resources Coordinator U-CAM Coordinator Southern Oregon University (541)552-6213 On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Jon McGough > wrote: Hello, Faculty have asked me to caption some Youtube videos that they do not own, and we haven?t gotten anywhere trying to contact the owners. Has anyone had luck with overstream.com or the like, getting captions for videos that can?t be downloaded? Thanks so much, Jon McGough Assistant Director, Disability Resources for Students University of Washington phone: 206.221.8543 fax: 206.616.8379 Information contained in this message is part of an educational record and is protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. This information is being shared with the addressee(s) because of legitimate educational interest. Any re-disclosure of this information must be done in accordance with FERPA or the student's consent. 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Is there anything better besides the built-in Narrator which is more of a screen reader than TTS engine? Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Wed May 21 12:40:10 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? In-Reply-To: <0c7001cf7521$22f4c1b0$68de4510$@gmail.com> References: <0c7001cf7521$22f4c1b0$68de4510$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <00c501cf752c$7acdeb40$7069c1c0$@gmail.com> Nitro has a free screen reader too. Also try the new one from Central Washington. If she wants to spend $$ there are other options. Free is good! Balabolka is easy to use and easy to manipulate the adjustments of voices, speed, pitch etc. as the tools are on the onscreen toolbar. Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:19 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I would recommend trying Balabolka, it is free and a pretty decent electronic reader. Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of KRISTA L. GREEAR Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:46 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I have a student who is sighted and predominantly uses her Surface (1.0, not 2.0). Is there anything better besides the built-in Narrator which is more of a screen reader than TTS engine? Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at karlencommunications.com Wed May 21 12:52:46 2014 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? In-Reply-To: <00c501cf752c$7acdeb40$7069c1c0$@gmail.com> References: <0c7001cf7521$22f4c1b0$68de4510$@gmail.com> <00c501cf752c$7acdeb40$7069c1c0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: <000501cf752e$3d6a3630$b83ea290$@karlencommunications.com> Keep in mind that Windows RT will not allow installations of software so am assuming you are talking about the Windows Pro version of the Surface? From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner Sent: May 21, 2014 3:40 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? Nitro has a free screen reader too. Also try the new one from Central Washington. If she wants to spend $$ there are other options. Free is good! Balabolka is easy to use and easy to manipulate the adjustments of voices, speed, pitch etc. as the tools are on the onscreen toolbar. Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:19 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I would recommend trying Balabolka, it is free and a pretty decent electronic reader. Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of KRISTA L. GREEAR Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:46 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I have a student who is sighted and predominantly uses her Surface (1.0, not 2.0). Is there anything better besides the built-in Narrator which is more of a screen reader than TTS engine? Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From greeark at uw.edu Wed May 21 13:01:38 2014 From: greeark at uw.edu (KRISTA L. GREEAR) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? In-Reply-To: <000501cf752e$3d6a3630$b83ea290$@karlencommunications.com> References: <0c7001cf7521$22f4c1b0$68de4510$@gmail.com> <00c501cf752c$7acdeb40$7069c1c0$@gmail.com> <000501cf752e$3d6a3630$b83ea290$@karlencommunications.com> Message-ID: Sorry for the confusion, yes, I'm talking about Windows RT. I do like the other TTS software offered (thanks Ron and Wink) but obviously can't use them on this tablet. I tried Narrator, Text to Speech app (absolute waste of $5, don't use), Wobble TTS app (doesn't have pause option and very limited interface), and Text2Speech app (which crashed as soon as I tried to paste text). Seems like the best options are available for iOS and Android devices. Krista From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:53 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? Keep in mind that Windows RT will not allow installations of software so am assuming you are talking about the Windows Pro version of the Surface? From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner Sent: May 21, 2014 3:40 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? Nitro has a free screen reader too. Also try the new one from Central Washington. If she wants to spend $$ there are other options. Free is good! Balabolka is easy to use and easy to manipulate the adjustments of voices, speed, pitch etc. as the tools are on the onscreen toolbar. Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:19 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I would recommend trying Balabolka, it is free and a pretty decent electronic reader. Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of KRISTA L. GREEAR Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:46 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? I have a student who is sighted and predominantly uses her Surface (1.0, not 2.0). Is there anything better besides the built-in Narrator which is more of a screen reader than TTS engine? Krista Greear Accessible Text and Technology Manager Disability Resources for Students University of Washington -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lcarlson at d.umn.edu Wed May 21 13:22:19 2014 From: lcarlson at d.umn.edu (Laura Carlson) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Captioning others web based content Message-ID: Hi Shawn and all, You wrote: > We've found that Amara has been really helpful as a > tool. Since you're not modifying the original content, permission is less > of an issue. Since it's web-based, too, there's no software costs. We have > student workers doing the captioning, we review it... works pretty slick. How much less of an issue is it? What copyright issues exist with using Amara to provide captions for videos that a university doesn't own? We are looking for a solution too. But am a bit hesitant as under "Amara Terms of Service" it says: "As an Amara account holder you may submit Content to the Service, including captions and subtitles. You understand that Amara does not guarantee any confidentiality with respect to any Content you submit. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish Content you submit." and "You further agree that Content you submit to the Service will not contain third party copyrighted material, or material that is subject to other third party proprietary rights, unless you have permission from the rightful owner of the material or you are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant Amara all of the license rights granted herein." http://about.amara.org/tos/ Thoughts? Thanks, Laura -- Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009 http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/ From info at karlencommunications.com Wed May 21 13:26:33 2014 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? In-Reply-To: References: <0c7001cf7521$22f4c1b0$68de4510$@gmail.com> <00c501cf752c$7acdeb40$7069c1c0$@gmail.com> <000501cf752e$3d6a3630$b83ea290$@karlencommunications.com> Message-ID: <8260BDFB-962A-4E75-97E6-AEF31BB9FA94@karlencommunications.com> If you want to use your "regular" adaptive technology you need the Windows Pro version of Windows tablets not RT. Cheers, Karen Sent from my iPad > On May 21, 2014, at 4:01 PM, "KRISTA L. GREEAR" wrote: > > Sorry for the confusion, yes, I?m talking about Windows RT. I do like the other TTS software offered (thanks Ron and Wink) but obviously can?t use them on this tablet. I tried Narrator, Text to Speech app (absolute waste of $5, don?t use), Wobble TTS app (doesn?t have pause option and very limited interface), and Text2Speech app (which crashed as soon as I tried to paste text). Seems like the best options are available for iOS and Android devices. > > Krista > > > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Karlen Communications > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:53 PM > To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? > > Keep in mind that Windows RT will not allow installations of software so am assuming you are talking about the Windows Pro version of the Surface? > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Wink Harner > Sent: May 21, 2014 3:40 PM > To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? > > Nitro has a free screen reader too. > > Also try the new one from Central Washington. > > If she wants to spend $$ there are other options. > > Free is good! Balabolka is easy to use and easy to manipulate the adjustments of voices, speed, pitch etc. as the tools are on the onscreen toolbar. > > Wink > > Wink Harner > foreigntype@gmail.com > > > > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:19 AM > To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? > > I would recommend trying Balabolka, it is free and a pretty decent electronic reader. > > Ron Stewart > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of KRISTA L. GREEAR > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 12:46 PM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? > > I have a student who is sighted and predominantly uses her Surface (1.0, not 2.0). Is there anything better besides the built-in Narrator which is more of a screen reader than TTS engine? > > > Krista Greear > Accessible Text and Technology Manager > Disability Resources for Students > University of Washington > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danc at uw.edu Wed May 21 14:41:20 2014 From: danc at uw.edu (Dan Comden) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] anything better than built in TTS on Surface? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: To be honest, this sounds like a case of someone using a screwdriver when it's a wrench that is needed. You can poke at the bolt all day long with a screwdriver, but it's just the wrong tool. Unfortunately I think a lot of students ? including many in the K-12 system as well ? that are being sold or choosing to use tools that just aren't appropriate OR effective. As an AT platform, it sounds like RT makes a pretty fancy coaster. From: "KRISTA L. GREEAR" > Sorry for the confusion, yes, I?m talking about Windows RT. I do like the other TTS software offered (thanks Ron and Wink) but obviously can?t use them on this tablet. I tried Narrator, Text to Speech app (absolute waste of $5, don?t use), Wobble TTS app (doesn?t have pause option and very limited interface), and Text2Speech app (which crashed as soon as I tried to paste text). Seems like the best -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I received this question from a student and have need for input. Can you help? "I wanted to get the dragon software for my computer to help me with writing. Which version do you think would work the best for a biology grad student? There is a standard version and then there is a professional and a medical version. In your experience do the basic programs work for graduate students that use a lot of technical terms in their reports?" Suggestions? Thanks, Aura -- "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" Aura Hirschman Senior Counselor Accessibility Resource Center Mitchell Hall B16 3203 N. Downer Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153 (414) 229-5660 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com > On May 21, 2014, at 6:02 PM, "Gaeir Dietrich" wrote: > > What Wink said. ;-) > > Also, please see our Web site for free training materials on Dragon. > > http://www.htctu.net/trainings/manuals/contributions/maincontribute.htm#dragon > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich > 408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Aura Hirschman > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:08 PM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] Dragon Naturally Speaking - professional and medical versions - question for biology grad student > > Hello All. I received this question from a student and have need for input. Can you help? > > "I wanted to get the dragon software for my computer to help me with writing. Which version do you think would work the best for a biology grad student? There is a standard version and then there is a professional and a medical version. In your experience do the basic programs work for graduate students that use a lot of technical terms in their reports?" > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, Aura > > -- > "Design for People with Disabilities is Better Design for Everyone" > > Aura Hirschman > Senior Counselor > Accessibility Resource Center > Mitchell Hall B16 > 3203 N. Downer Avenue > Milwaukee, WI 53211-3153 > > (414) 229-5660 > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lnorwich at bu.edu Sun May 25 07:55:37 2014 From: lnorwich at bu.edu (Norwich, Lorraine S) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Note taker software Message-ID: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD0D4@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> HI We are trying to set up a database for students who use our note taking services. We use peer note takers where students find someone in the class that takes notes for them. We pay the note taker stipend to take the notes. This involves a lot of paper work and verification of notes being taken as well as hiring students who are international and need I-9's. We are trying to make as much of this system automated as possible. Please can you let us know what data base you use or any other systems that could be helpful please can you share it with us. Thanks Lorraine From lnorwich at bu.edu Sun May 25 08:00:53 2014 From: lnorwich at bu.edu (Norwich, Lorraine S) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] LIve scribe v note taking Message-ID: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD125@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> HI For those Universities using live scribe pens for students needing note takers, do you also still have note takers. Please can we talk about this as we have some questions about working with both live scribe pens and note takers Thanks Lorraine From foreigntype at gmail.com Sun May 25 13:26:23 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] LIve scribe v note taking In-Reply-To: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD125@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> References: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD125@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> Message-ID: <02a801cf7857$990408a0$cb0c19e0$@gmail.com> Lorraine et al in ATHEN-Land We use both LiveScribe pens and live peer notetakers, depends on the circumstances, the impact of the disability etc. What do you need to know? Wink Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University 541-552-8442 harnerw@sou.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Norwich, Lorraine S Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 8:01 AM To: altmedia digest recipients Cc: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] LIve scribe v note taking HI For those Universities using live scribe pens for students needing note takers, do you also still have note takers. Please can we talk about this as we have some questions about working with both live scribe pens and note takers Thanks Lorraine _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From foreigntype at gmail.com Sun May 25 13:31:08 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Note taker software In-Reply-To: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD0D4@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> References: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD0D4@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> Message-ID: <02e501cf7858$42ced4a0$c86c7de0$@gmail.com> Lorraine et al in ATHEN-land, We use AIMS database at SOU to manage notetakers AND the LiveScribe pen checkout inventory. AIMS can generate a letter to faculty about the accommodation need, can generate a letter to the student needing the accommodation and a letter to the student providing the accommodation. While we predominantly use LiveScribe pen technology, we do manage the live peer notetakers through the AIMS system. You can talk to us at SOU about how we use it or I can hook you up directly with the folks that develop AIMS and have them walk you through what their database can do and how it can support you & your office in this challenging area. Wink Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University 541-552-8442 harnerw@sou.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Norwich, Lorraine S Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 7:56 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Note taker software HI We are trying to set up a database for students who use our note taking services. We use peer note takers where students find someone in the class that takes notes for them. We pay the note taker stipend to take the notes. This involves a lot of paper work and verification of notes being taken as well as hiring students who are international and need I-9's. We are trying to make as much of this system automated as possible. Please can you let us know what data base you use or any other systems that could be helpful please can you share it with us. Thanks Lorraine _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From nettiet at gmail.com Sun May 25 14:28:22 2014 From: nettiet at gmail.com (Nettie Fischer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Note taker software In-Reply-To: <02e501cf7858$42ced4a0$c86c7de0$@gmail.com> References: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882E82DAD0D4@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> <02e501cf7858$42ced4a0$c86c7de0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Just curious if you have explored the new Livescribe pen option that transfers notes with audio add-in availability? I purchased one for exploration purposes and find it to be quite functional. Nettie's nickel On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Wink Harner wrote: > > Lorraine et al in ATHEN-land, > > We use AIMS database at SOU to manage notetakers AND the LiveScribe pen > checkout inventory. AIMS can generate a letter to faculty about the > accommodation need, can generate a letter to the student needing the > accommodation and a letter to the student providing the accommodation. > While > we predominantly use LiveScribe pen technology, we do manage the live peer > notetakers through the AIMS system. > > You can talk to us at SOU about how we use it or I can hook you up directly > with the folks that develop AIMS and have them walk you through what their > database can do and how it can support you & your office in this > challenging > area. > > Wink > > Wink Harner > Assistive Technology Specialist > Southern Oregon University > 541-552-8442 > > harnerw@sou.edu > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On > Behalf Of Norwich, Lorraine S > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2014 7:56 AM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [Athen] Note taker software > > HI > > We are trying to set up a database for students who use our note taking > services. We use peer note takers where students find someone in the class > that takes notes for them. We pay the note taker stipend to take the > notes. > This involves a lot of paper work and verification of notes being taken as > well as hiring students who are international and need I-9's. We are > trying > to make as much of this system automated as possible. Please can you let > us know what data base you use or any other systems that could be helpful > please can you share it with us. > > Thanks > > Lorraine > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -- *Nettie T. Fischer, ATPAssistive Technology Professional* *RESNA Certified* *California Certified NPA Nettiet, ATP Consultantswww.nettietatpconsultants.com * *[916] 686-1860 FAX(916) 704-1456 Cell* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU Thu May 29 08:55:20 2014 From: Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU (Susan Kelmer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Accessible e-vite? Message-ID: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807B5CB649ECB@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Anyone know if any of the electronic/paperless "evite" type services are accessible? Suggestions? Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado 303-735-4836 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu Thu May 29 09:11:51 2014 From: Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu (Cassandra L. Tex) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment Message-ID: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> Greetings All, Sorry for the cross post... Has anyone been successful in using assistive technology (specifically JAWS, MAGic, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking) in either Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment? Our IT folks are moving in the direction of serving up programs virtually but we're having difficulty getting JAWS and MAGic to work in this environment (we haven't even started dealing with DNS). We do have a remote access license for JAWS and MAGic. JAWS is installed both locally and remotely. JAWS works fine locally and we can start the virtual programs. However, once the virtual environment is loaded, JAWS ceases to work. In some cases JAWS will echo the keystrokes, but in others, JAWS is silent. Keyboard access does work, but JAWS does not. We have the latest versions of both JAWS and MAGic... If anyone has been successful in implementing a virtual environment using either Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment with assistive technology, I would appreciate it if you would share your knowledge! Thanks in advance for your help! Cassandra Tex Assistive Technology Specialist Humboldt State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu May 29 10:09:40 2014 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment In-Reply-To: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <0a9b01cf7b60$c7e53d40$57afb7c0$@gmail.com> Cassandra et al in ATHEN land, Have your IT folks get in touch with the tech support at Nuance regarding the best method for installs of the enterprise version of Dragon. When we did it at my previous college, the program deployed nicely and folks could log in all across campus using a roaming profile. The voice profiles were stored on the server (requires a significant amount of server space allocated) and we regularly wiped the student voice files at the end of each term, asking the students to back up their voice files each term on their own USB for portability and reinstall for the following term. The program performed admirably within the campus environment. Since Dragon's preference is to save voice profiles and run volume/mic level checks on individual (local) computers, I don't know how well this works outside of the college's firewall (which may be part of your JAWS difficulties, BTW). I use DNS and while I can remotely access various computers I use which all have DNS installed (local installs in each case), I can do SOME things remotely with Dragon but the things I rely on it being able to do, i.e., open & close files, search, enter URLS & do websearches, CORRECT, SPELL, REPLACE & TRAIN do not function remotely and often I am limited to a dictation window which requires I copy & paste into whatever I'm working on vs. being able to dictate directly. I will now get out my soapbox for some "preaching to the choir" -I would LOVE to see Nuance come up with a viable PORTABLE version of Dragon Naturally Speaking and pair it with a high quality noise cancelling mic with a built in sound chip. There! The gauntlet has been thrown down. Do please contact me off list if you have difficulty finding anyone in tech support at Nuance. Also consider joining the user group for Dragon on Linked-In. Peter Mahoney (Prez/CEO of Nuance) monitors it to improve customer service. Blessings, all. Wink foreigntype@gmail.com Wink Harner Assistive Technology Specialist Southern Oregon University 541-552-8442 harnerw@sou.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cassandra L. Tex Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 9:12 AM To: ATHEN Listserv; Alt Media HTCTU Listserv Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment Greetings All, Sorry for the cross post. Has anyone been successful in using assistive technology (specifically JAWS, MAGic, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking) in either Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment? Our IT folks are moving in the direction of serving up programs virtually but we're having difficulty getting JAWS and MAGic to work in this environment (we haven't even started dealing with DNS). We do have a remote access license for JAWS and MAGic. JAWS is installed both locally and remotely. JAWS works fine locally and we can start the virtual programs. However, once the virtual environment is loaded, JAWS ceases to work. In some cases JAWS will echo the keystrokes, but in others, JAWS is silent. Keyboard access does work, but JAWS does not. We have the latest versions of both JAWS and MAGic. If anyone has been successful in implementing a virtual environment using either Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment with assistive technology, I would appreciate it if you would share your knowledge! Thanks in advance for your help! Cassandra Tex Assistive Technology Specialist Humboldt State University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tkearns at tmcc.edu Thu May 29 10:58:03 2014 From: tkearns at tmcc.edu (Thomas Kearns) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment In-Reply-To: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Premier AT helped my college put their literacy tools into Citrix XenApp and it is working well. It's a great way for students to have use of a software other than college computers. All they need is a URL to the xenapp, their student login and they can use Premier AT any place anytime they need it. *Thomas Kearns* Assistive Technician / Accessibility Specialist ATACP Office of Disability Resource Center Truckee Meadows Community College 7000 Dandini Blvd. (RDMT 315-U) Reno, Nevada 89512 Wk: 775-673-7209 Fax 775-673-7207 Email: tkearns@tmcc.edu CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persona or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Cassandra L. Tex < Cassandra.Tex@humboldt.edu> wrote: > Greetings All, > > Sorry for the cross post? > > > > Has anyone been successful in using assistive technology (specifically > JAWS, MAGic, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking) in either Citrix?s XenApp or > Microsoft?s App-V virtual environment? Our IT folks are moving in the > direction of serving up programs virtually but we?re having difficulty > getting JAWS and MAGic to work in this environment (we haven?t even started > dealing with DNS). We do have a remote access license for JAWS and MAGic. > JAWS is installed both locally and remotely. JAWS works fine locally and > we can start the virtual programs. However, once the virtual environment > is loaded, JAWS ceases to work. In some cases JAWS will echo the > keystrokes, but in others, JAWS is silent. Keyboard access does work, but > JAWS does not. > > > > We have the latest versions of both JAWS and MAGic? > > > > If anyone has been successful in implementing a virtual environment using > either Citrix?s XenApp or Microsoft?s App-V virtual environment with > assistive technology, I would appreciate it if you would share your > knowledge! > > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > > Cassandra Tex > > Assistive Technology Specialist > > Humboldt State University > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From blrichwine at gmail.com Thu May 29 11:51:43 2014 From: blrichwine at gmail.com (Brian Richwine) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment In-Reply-To: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> References: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Cassandra, We have been successful at getting Citrix's XenApp and JAWS to play nicely together here at IU. There was one particular individual at Freedom Scientific that talked our technical people through the process. Our native JAWS user pretty much couldn't tell she was using a virtualized app. The person from our office who worked on it is out today. If you are interested I will connect you two through email. Sincerely, Brian Richwine Manager, UITS Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Cassandra L. Tex < Cassandra.Tex@humboldt.edu> wrote: > Greetings All, > > Sorry for the cross post? > > > > Has anyone been successful in using assistive technology (specifically > JAWS, MAGic, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking) in either Citrix?s XenApp or > Microsoft?s App-V virtual environment? Our IT folks are moving in the > direction of serving up programs virtually but we?re having difficulty > getting JAWS and MAGic to work in this environment (we haven?t even started > dealing with DNS). We do have a remote access license for JAWS and MAGic. > JAWS is installed both locally and remotely. JAWS works fine locally and > we can start the virtual programs. However, once the virtual environment > is loaded, JAWS ceases to work. In some cases JAWS will echo the > keystrokes, but in others, JAWS is silent. Keyboard access does work, but > JAWS does not. > > > > We have the latest versions of both JAWS and MAGic? > > > > If anyone has been successful in implementing a virtual environment using > either Citrix?s XenApp or Microsoft?s App-V virtual environment with > assistive technology, I would appreciate it if you would share your > knowledge! > > > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > > > Cassandra Tex > > Assistive Technology Specialist > > Humboldt State University > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu Thu May 29 14:39:32 2014 From: Cassandra.Tex at humboldt.edu (Cassandra L. Tex) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment In-Reply-To: References: <6e2027452cf9f7f153be33480098f66b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <389db72b9096641ce37e47836f9cb138@mail.gmail.com> Thank you everyone for the information! I appreciate all of the responses! Cassandra -----Original Message----- From: Greg Kraus [mailto:gdkraus@ncsu.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:07 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Cc: Cassandra.Tex@humboldt.edu; Alt Media HTCTU Listserv Subject: Re: [Athen] Assistive Technology Use and Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V Virtual Environment The amount of success you will have depends on what type of AT you are trying to install on a VM. Most VMs do all the processing of content and user interaction on the VM side. They treat your computer as simply a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. You press space on your keyboard and it's the VM that decides what to do based on you pressing space. If the VM needs to produce a sound, it packages it up kind of like a WAV file, it ships it to you, and your computer simply plays the audio file. The reason this is important is because of latency. In the case of a lot of literacy software this might be OK if you just need things like dictionaries and word prediction. However, if you have AT that needs to produce audio, users of any proficiency on that AT will grow quickly annoyed with this. The time it takes for the VM to produce that audio file, ship it to you, then your computer to play it is significant. Screen reader users will think their screen reader, which must be running on the VM side of things, is very sluggish. If you have literacy software that is highlighting words and text as it is read, the highlight and the audio will be noticeably out of sync, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. Running AT on your local machine isn't enough. The VM is usually just presented as a big picture to the end user, so AT won't know what to do with it. What you really need is some type of bridge that lets AT on the VM side communicate back with AT running on your local machine so that those computationally intensive processes (e.g. audio encoding, transferring, and decoding) can be off loaded to your local machine. This is precisely what happens when you run JAWS and connect to a remote computer running JAWS. The two versions of JAWS create a bridge so that the remote JAWS can interpret the content in an application, but the remote JAWS just sends a string of text back to your local JAWS telling it what to say. All of the audio processing is happening on your local machine. Also with JAWS, when you press the down arrow, your local JAWS communicates with the remote JAWS to tell it to press the down arrow on the VM. I think all of Freedom's products provide this type of bridge connection with remote computers through RDP connections. HOWEVER, it depends on what type of VM you are connecting to. At NC State our Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) is running remote versions of the full blown Windows 7 OS in VMs. When I connect to it through RDP, my local machine thinks it's connecting to a real computer through Remote Desktop, not to a VM. JAWS simply detects the remote JAWS working and creates the bridge to it and it all works. This is not the case with Citrix and others. With Citrix, the VM app is delivered in a special container app on my local machine. There is no RDP connection for my local JAWS to talk through. Some other steps have to be taken, that Brian mentions, to enable all of the magical goodness. I have not implemented it or tested it because the vast majority of our remote work is done in our VCL, not our Citrix environment. So in summary, it depends on what you are trying to get installed on the VM. It's been quite some time since I've tested all of this but from memory here is what I remember about the situation. JAWS, works quite well if the bridge can be created NVDA, too sluggish ZoomText, will work, but if running locally will only magnify the image as it's presented, so there will be pixelation. I've never had much luck getting ZT to install on remote machines MAGic, I think this worked well if the bridge could be made Kurzweil, not all that great R&W Gold, not all that great Dragon, had not gotten around to testing it in a true VM environment. My worry would be that audio you send to the VM will get partially compressed or degraded on the journey to the VM and cause speech recognition to suffer. I really need to update my tests because it has been quite some time. I hope this helps. Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 gdkraus@ncsu.edu http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Brian Richwine wrote: > Cassandra, > > We have been successful at getting Citrix's XenApp and JAWS to play > nicely together here at IU. There was one particular individual at > Freedom Scientific that talked our technical people through the > process. Our native JAWS user pretty much couldn't tell she was using > a virtualized app. The person from our office who worked on it is out > today. If you are interested I will connect you two through email. > > Sincerely, > Brian Richwine > Manager, UITS Assistive Technology and Accessibility Centers > > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Cassandra L. Tex > wrote: >> >> Greetings All, >> >> Sorry for the cross post... >> >> >> >> Has anyone been successful in using assistive technology >> (specifically JAWS, MAGic, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking) in either >> Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment? Our IT >> folks are moving in the direction of serving up programs virtually >> but we're having difficulty getting JAWS and MAGic to work in this >> environment (we haven't even started dealing with DNS). We do have a >> remote access license for JAWS and MAGic. >> JAWS is installed both locally and remotely. JAWS works fine locally >> and we can start the virtual programs. However, once the virtual >> environment is loaded, JAWS ceases to work. In some cases JAWS will >> echo the keystrokes, but in others, JAWS is silent. Keyboard access >> does work, but JAWS does not. >> >> >> >> We have the latest versions of both JAWS and MAGic... >> >> >> >> If anyone has been successful in implementing a virtual environment >> using either Citrix's XenApp or Microsoft's App-V virtual environment >> with assistive technology, I would appreciate it if you would share >> your knowledge! >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance for your help! >> >> >> >> Cassandra Tex >> >> Assistive Technology Specialist >> >> Humboldt State University >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> athen-list mailing list >> athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu >> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From michele.bromley at pdx.edu Thu May 29 14:45:51 2014 From: michele.bromley at pdx.edu (Michele Bromley) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] Microsoft Excel for Blind Users Message-ID: Hello all, One of our blind students recently asked, "As a blind person, how can I extract the formulas generated in Microsoft Excel graphs?" 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ICEAPVI-2015 will be held in Athens, Greece, between February 12-14, 2015. We invite researchers working in the domains for Persons with Visual Impairment to submit papers for oral presentation or posters in the areas of: * access to the learning, * access to the interpersonal communication, * access to the printed information, * access to the electronic information and the WWW content, * access to the recreation and leisure and * access to the built environment. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2014 ICEAPVI-2015 is co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Speech and Accessibility Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) and the International Council for Education and Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment- Europe (ICEVI-Europe). 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ICEAPVI-2015 will be held in Athens, Greece, between February 12-14, 2015. We invite researchers working in the domains for Persons with Visual Impairment to submit papers for oral presentation or posters in the areas of: * access to the learning, * access to the interpersonal communication, * access to the printed information, * access to the electronic information and the WWW content, * access to the recreation and leisure and * access to the built environment. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2014 ICEAPVI-2015 is co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Speech and Accessibility Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) and the International Council for Education and Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment- Europe (ICEVI-Europe). 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ICEAPVI-2015 will be held in Athens, Greece, between February 12-14, 2015. We invite researchers working in the domains for Persons with Visual Impairment to submit papers for oral presentation or posters in the areas of: * access to the learning, * access to the interpersonal communication, * access to the printed information, * access to the electronic information and the WWW content, * access to the recreation and leisure and * access to the built environment. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2014 ICEAPVI-2015 is co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Speech and Accessibility Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) and the International Council for Education and Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment- Europe (ICEVI-Europe). 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Name: profile_share_badge.png Type: image/png Size: 2902 bytes Desc: not available URL: From koupe at di.uoa.gr Fri May 30 12:24:30 2014 From: koupe at di.uoa.gr (Georgios Kouroupetroglou) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:31:48 2018 Subject: [Athen] ICEAPVI-2015: International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5388DAEE.8050707@di.uoa.gr> *ICEAPVI-2015* *International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment* February 12-14, 2015, Athens, Greece http://access.uoa.gr/ICEAPVI-2015/ ****************************************************** The *International Conference on Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment (ICEAPVI)* is an interdisciplinary scientific event, where researchers in the domain of education, rehabilitation, Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) as well as Assistive Technologies for persons with blindness and low vision meet to present and exchange their recent ideas and newest research. ICEAPVI-2015 will be held in Athens, Greece, between February 12-14, 2015. We invite researchers working in the domains for Persons with Visual Impairment to submit papers for oral presentation or posters in the areas of: * access to the learning, * access to the interpersonal communication, * access to the printed information, * access to the electronic information and the WWW content, * access to the recreation and leisure and * access to the built environment. Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2014 ICEAPVI-2015 is co-organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Speech and Accessibility Laboratory, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications) and the International Council for Education and Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairment- Europe (ICEVI-Europe). Further information: http://access.uoa.gr/ICEAPVI-2015 Email: iceapvi@di.uoa.gr /The organizing committee of the ICEAPVI-2015/ // GeorgiosKouroupetroglou *University of Athens* Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia, GR-15784, Athens, Greece tel.: +30 2107275305 fax: +30 2106018677 koupe@di.uoa.gr View Georgios Kouroupetroglou's profile on LinkedIn Georgios Kouroupetroglou -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: btn_viewmy_160x33.png Type: image/png Size: 1899 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The incumbent also creates and maintains bSpace accounts for the dissemination of alternative media to students, and updates the alternative media database systems. If you know of anyone who might be interested in any of these opportunities, please encourage them to apply. Candidates may apply directly at http:// jobs.berkeley.edu You can find the position by referencing the job numbers above. Thank you, Martha Velasquez -- Alternative Media Supervisor Disabled Students' Program University of California, Berkeley http://dsp.berkeley.edu/alternativemedia.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: UCB AMP Posting.doc Type: application/msword Size: 43008 bytes Desc: not available URL: