From jsutton2 at stanford.edu Sun Feb 1 15:02:22 2015 From: jsutton2 at stanford.edu (Jennifer Sutton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Department of Fair Employment and Housing v. Law School Admission Council, Inc. Message-ID: ATHENites: Apologies if this is a duplicate. Best Practices for @Official_LSAT testing accommodations http://t.co/qARstdeRuA [direct link to a PDF] And More on the case: http://t.co/zRG658PUaM Jennifer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ats169 at psu.edu Sun Feb 1 17:49:31 2015 From: ats169 at psu.edu (Alexa Schriempf) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Who has Duxbury 11.2 and MathType? I'm still waiting for Dux upgrade Message-ID: All, I still don't have dux 11.2. I nabbed a download demo and did a bunch of work, went to save, and found out I couldn't. Drat! I have just one equation. The workflow if you want to work directly with the latex: $P{{R}_{i}}=100(\frac{\sum\limits_{{}}^{{}}{f+\frac{f}{2})}}{n}$ 1) Open Word plus mathtype. 2) Hit insert inline equation 3) Dump latex into mathtype editor 4) close MathType editor 5) Save word doc as a .doc 6) Open word doc in Dux 7) Use the textbook Bana with Nemeth template 8) translate 9) save as a BRF and email to me. Workflow if you want to use my attached Word doc edited with mathype: 1) Open word doc in Dux 2) Use the textbook Bana with Nemeth template 3) translate 4) save as a BRF and email to me Thank you!!! -- Alexa Schriempf, PhD Access Tech Consultant https://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Levels of Measurement Nemeth.doc Type: application/msword Size: 34816 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu Mon Feb 2 08:53:10 2015 From: Joseph.Sherman at cuny.edu (Joseph Sherman) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] CUNY Accessibility Conference Message-ID: <50DD5F0CC3F534468FB20D832102EBA9F139F1@EXPM5701.enterpriseapps.cuny.adlan> The CUNY Accessibility Conference Coordinating Committee is pleased to invite you to the 6th Annual CUNY Accessibility Conference that will be held on May 1st, 2015 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. The Annual Conference will bring together CUNY professionals and others in the fields of higher education and disability to highlight the changing dynamic of digital media accessible to students across the CUNY campuses. We are also currently accepting proposals for presentations. Please visit and subscribe to catsweb.cuny.edu for information and additional details leading up to the Conference. 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Take care, Sean ******** Proposed Changes: Also available at: http://athenpro.org/content/athen-bylaws ARTICLE IV--VOTING AND ELECTIONS 4.5. Officers shall be elected annually by the membership. Elections will be held within the month prior to the annual meeting. Election results will be announced at the annual meeting, with terms to commence at the end of the meeting. Terms are for two years, with elections for President and Secretary occurring in even-numbered years. Elections for Vice President and Treasurer will be held in odd-numbered years. Terms are for two years for Member at Large representatives, with elections occurring in alternating years. ARTICLE V--EXECUTIVE OFFICERS 5.1. The officers of ATHEN shall be an Executive Council and be comprised of a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, the immediate past President serving as an ex-officio member, and up-to-two Member at Large representatives. 5.3.5. The Member at Large representatives shall be responsible for participating in Executive Council meetings; assisting the President and Vice-President in achieving the goals of the organization; supporting ATHEN committees as needed; and effecting the policies and/or decisions made by the Executive Council. ARTICLE VIII--DUES 8.2.2. Annual membership term begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. 8.3. Dues collected in the last quarter of the calendar year will apply for the last quarter of the current year and the full following year. Dues collected as part of the Accessing Higher Ground Conference registration will apply for the membership term in the last quarter of the current year and the full following year. From harris_jp at hotmail.com Mon Feb 2 22:01:56 2015 From: harris_jp at hotmail.com (John Paul) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:12 2018 Subject: [Athen] Who has Duxbury 11.2 and MathType? I'm still waiting for Dux upgrade In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I saw the equation in the Word doc you attached. This is the equation you want: $PR_i = 100 \left(\frac{\sum f+ \frac{f}{2}}{n} \right)$ You can test in the online LaTeX editor I just found: http://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php The other equation was imcomplete. I am not sure if your program (MathType or Scientific Notebook) did not output the correct LaTeX code or if the equation was not entered into the editor appropriately. I currently do not have Duxbury, but hopefully you can test. John Paul Harris From: ats169@psu.edu Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 20:49:31 -0500 To: altmedia@htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu; athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Who has Duxbury 11.2 and MathType? I'm still waiting for Dux upgrade All, I still don't have dux 11.2. I nabbed a download demo and did a bunch of work, went to save, and found out I couldn't. Drat! I have just one equation. The workflow if you want to work directly with the latex: $P{{R}_{i}}=100(\frac{\sum\limits_{{}}^{{}}{f+\frac{f}{2})}}{n}$ 1) Open Word plus mathtype. 2) Hit insert inline equation3) Dump latex into mathtype editor4) close MathType editor5) Save word doc as a .doc6) Open word doc in Dux7) Use the textbook Bana with Nemeth template8) translate9) save as a BRF and email to me. Workflow if you want to use my attached Word doc edited with mathype: 1) Open word doc in Dux2) Use the textbook Bana with Nemeth template3) translate4) save as a BRF and email to me Thank you!!! -- Alexa Schriempf, PhDAccess Tech Consultanthttps://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/ _______________________________________________ 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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Here's the University of Washington's list of Resolution Agreements and Lawsuits: http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/accessibility-cases-and-settlement-agreements/ That has a companion page, Legal Cases by Issue, which is essentially a summary of lessons learned: http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/legal-cases-by-issue/ Regards, Terrill --- Terrill Thompson Technology Accessibility Specialist DO-IT, Accessible Technology Services UW Information Technology University of Washington tft@uw.edu On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Paul E. Paire wrote: > This is a work in progress, and is VERY rough at this point, (and I don't > have some of the latest cases in here), but you could check > http://sites.temple.edu/a11ylawsuits/ as I have downloaded the PDFs or > copied the text I could find. This was really developed for my own > personal consumption (so I could track what cases are out there) so let me > know if you run into problems with the site or it's content. > > -Paul > ________________________________________ > From: athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] on > behalf of Sean Keegan [skeegan@stanford.edu] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:43 PM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production > > The ATHEN site has a number of these cases listed ( > http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news) and I have tried to link to the > official documents when possible. That said, some are not public or have > been removed in which case I have linked to other websites. I also have > included other sites where you could find information about court cases. > > The AHEAD Legal Database has great information, but you need to be an > AHEAD member to access that content. In fact, I would go as far to say that > access to that database is a major benefit to becoming an AHEAD member. > > Take care, > Sean > > > > On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:08 PM, "Robert Espero" roberte@uci.edu>> wrote: > > I was only aware of about half of what both you cited. Are there any links > to the CSU Fullerton and Florida St. cases? How about the University of > Montana and University of Colorado? > > Any info would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Robert Espero > Assistant Director, Accessible Technologies > Disability Services Center > UC Irvine > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu > ] On Behalf Of Ron > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:44 AM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production > > There are also a series of more recent cases, while they do not speak to > alt format in particular they do speak to accessible curricular materials. > Louisiana Tech is an interesting case in point. University of Montana, and > most recently the University of Colorado but I have not seen a settlement > letter on this one yet. > > Ron Stewart > > On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Sean Keegan skeegan@stanford.edu>> wrote: > Hi Susan, > > You can take a look at the list of court cases on the ATHEN site: > http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news > > The CSU Fullerton case, the UC Berkeley case, and the Florida State > University case are relevant to alternate format production. Also, although > a bit dated, I think the 1996 OCR investigation of the California Community > Colleges has some language that is still relevant (i.e., use of the term > effective communication). > > There may be others, but these are the ones that jump to mind with respect > to alternate format production. > > The only other case I can think of that is recent would be the Author's > Guild vs. Hathi Trust ( > https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-hathitrust). Check out the > Opinion Granting Summary Judgement of Fair Use [PDF] as the judge includes > a transformative use of creating accessible versions of the scanned > materials. > > > Take care, > Sean > > > > > On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Susan Kelmer > wrote: > > > Looking for info on court cases that fell in our favor regarding the > production of alternate format for students. I know there was a relatively > recent case but can?t put my finger on it. One of my law students is > working on a project and was asking me questions. > > Thanks! > > Susan Kelmer > Alternate Format Coordinator > Disability Services > University of Colorado Boulder > 107 UCB > Boulder, CO 80309 > 303-735-4836 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 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 sherylb at uw.edu Tue Feb 3 08:14:59 2015 From: sherylb at uw.edu (Sheryl E. Burgstahler) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production In-Reply-To: References: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB953AD462@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> <14F3995F-F5A0-4152-9A4F-A25794D4EF89@stanford.edu> <097301d0367f$3525f190$9f71d4b0$@uci.edu> Message-ID: <38B1AAFF-00A1-42BD-826C-60672B7F8125@uw.edu> Thanks for sending this! ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Terrill Thompson > wrote: Sorry I'm late to this conversation. Here's the University of Washington's list of Resolution Agreements and Lawsuits: http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/accessibility-cases-and-settlement-agreements/ That has a companion page, Legal Cases by Issue, which is essentially a summary of lessons learned: http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/legal-cases-by-issue/ Regards, Terrill --- Terrill Thompson Technology Accessibility Specialist DO-IT, Accessible Technology Services UW Information Technology University of Washington tft@uw.edu On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Paul E. Paire > wrote: This is a work in progress, and is VERY rough at this point, (and I don't have some of the latest cases in here), but you could check http://sites.temple.edu/a11ylawsuits/ as I have downloaded the PDFs or copied the text I could find. This was really developed for my own personal consumption (so I could track what cases are out there) so let me know if you run into problems with the site or it's content. -Paul ________________________________________ From: athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Sean Keegan [skeegan@stanford.edu] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:43 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production The ATHEN site has a number of these cases listed (http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news) and I have tried to link to the official documents when possible. That said, some are not public or have been removed in which case I have linked to other websites. I also have included other sites where you could find information about court cases. The AHEAD Legal Database has great information, but you need to be an AHEAD member to access that content. In fact, I would go as far to say that access to that database is a major benefit to becoming an AHEAD member. Take care, Sean On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:08 PM, "Robert Espero" >> wrote: I was only aware of about half of what both you cited. Are there any links to the CSU Fullerton and Florida St. cases? How about the University of Montana and University of Colorado? Any info would be appreciated! Thanks, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Technologies Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu>] On Behalf Of Ron Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:44 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production There are also a series of more recent cases, while they do not speak to alt format in particular they do speak to accessible curricular materials. Louisiana Tech is an interesting case in point. University of Montana, and most recently the University of Colorado but I have not seen a settlement letter on this one yet. Ron Stewart On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Sean Keegan >> wrote: Hi Susan, You can take a look at the list of court cases on the ATHEN site: http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news The CSU Fullerton case, the UC Berkeley case, and the Florida State University case are relevant to alternate format production. Also, although a bit dated, I think the 1996 OCR investigation of the California Community Colleges has some language that is still relevant (i.e., use of the term effective communication). There may be others, but these are the ones that jump to mind with respect to alternate format production. The only other case I can think of that is recent would be the Author's Guild vs. Hathi Trust (https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-hathitrust). Check out the Opinion Granting Summary Judgement of Fair Use [PDF] as the judge includes a transformative use of creating accessible versions of the scanned materials. Take care, Sean On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Susan Kelmer > wrote: Looking for info on court cases that fell in our favor regarding the production of alternate format for students. I know there was a relatively recent case but can?t put my finger on it. One of my law students is working on a project and was asking me questions. Thanks! Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 107 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 303-735-4836 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 ronrstewart at gmail.com Tue Feb 3 08:22:25 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production In-Reply-To: <38B1AAFF-00A1-42BD-826C-60672B7F8125@uw.edu> References: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB953AD462@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> <14F3995F-F5A0-4152-9A4F-A25794D4EF89@stanford.edu> <097301d0367f$3525f190$9f71d4b0$@uci.edu> <38B1AAFF-00A1-42BD-826C-60672B7F8125@uw.edu> Message-ID: Thanks all, great resources! Ron Stewart On Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Sheryl E. Burgstahler wrote: > Thanks for sending this! > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. > Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT > Affiliate Professor, Education > University of Washington, Box 354842 > Seattle, WA 98195 > 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 > http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb > sherylb@uw.edu > > On Feb 3, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Terrill Thompson > wrote: > > Sorry I'm late to this conversation. Here's the University of > Washington's list of Resolution Agreements and Lawsuits: > > http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/accessibility-cases-and-settlement-agreements/ > > That has a companion page, Legal Cases by Issue, which is essentially a > summary of lessons learned: > http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/requirements/legal-cases-by-issue/ > > Regards, > Terrill > > > > --- > Terrill Thompson > Technology Accessibility Specialist > DO-IT, Accessible Technology Services > UW Information Technology > University of Washington > tft@uw.edu > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Paul E. Paire > wrote: > >> This is a work in progress, and is VERY rough at this point, (and I don't >> have some of the latest cases in here), but you could check >> http://sites.temple.edu/a11ylawsuits/ as I have downloaded the PDFs or >> copied the text I could find. This was really developed for my own >> personal consumption (so I could track what cases are out there) so let me >> know if you run into problems with the site or it's content. >> >> -Paul >> ________________________________________ >> From: athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu >> ] >> on behalf of Sean Keegan [skeegan@stanford.edu >> ] >> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 3:43 PM >> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network >> Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production >> >> The ATHEN site has a number of these cases listed ( >> http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news) and I have tried to link to the >> official documents when possible. That said, some are not public or have >> been removed in which case I have linked to other websites. I also have >> included other sites where you could find information about court cases. >> >> The AHEAD Legal Database has great information, but you need to be an >> AHEAD member to access that content. In fact, I would go as far to say that >> access to that database is a major benefit to becoming an AHEAD member. >> >> Take care, >> Sean >> >> >> >> On Jan 22, 2015, at 12:08 PM, "Robert Espero" > > >> wrote: >> >> I was only aware of about half of what both you cited. Are there any >> links to the CSU Fullerton and Florida St. cases? How about the University >> of Montana and University of Colorado? >> >> Any info would be appreciated! >> >> Thanks, >> >> Robert Espero >> Assistant Director, Accessible Technologies >> Disability Services Center >> UC Irvine >> >> From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu >> >> > >] >> On Behalf Of Ron >> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:44 AM >> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network >> Subject: Re: [Athen] Court Cases/decisions re: alternate format production >> >> There are also a series of more recent cases, while they do not speak to >> alt format in particular they do speak to accessible curricular materials. >> Louisiana Tech is an interesting case in point. University of Montana, and >> most recently the University of Colorado but I have not seen a settlement >> letter on this one yet. >> >> Ron Stewart >> >> On Thursday, January 22, 2015, Sean Keegan > > skeegan@stanford.edu >> >> wrote: >> Hi Susan, >> >> You can take a look at the list of court cases on the ATHEN site: >> http://athenpro.org/content/legal-news >> >> The CSU Fullerton case, the UC Berkeley case, and the Florida State >> University case are relevant to alternate format production. Also, although >> a bit dated, I think the 1996 OCR investigation of the California Community >> Colleges has some language that is still relevant (i.e., use of the term >> effective communication). >> >> There may be others, but these are the ones that jump to mind with >> respect to alternate format production. >> >> The only other case I can think of that is recent would be the Author's >> Guild vs. Hathi Trust ( >> https://www.eff.org/cases/authors-guild-v-hathitrust). Check out the >> Opinion Granting Summary Judgement of Fair Use [PDF] as the judge includes >> a transformative use of creating accessible versions of the scanned >> materials. >> >> >> Take care, >> Sean >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Susan Kelmer > > wrote: >> >> >> Looking for info on court cases that fell in our favor regarding the >> production of alternate format for students. I know there was a relatively >> recent case but can?t put my finger on it. One of my law students is >> working on a project and was asking me questions. >> >> Thanks! >> >> Susan Kelmer >> Alternate Format Coordinator >> Disability Services >> University of Colorado Boulder >> 107 UCB >> Boulder, CO 80309 >> 303-735-4836 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Basic e-readers that qualify for the waiver are designed primarily for the purpose of reading text-based digital works, such as books, and must meet each of the following requirements: - The device has no LCD screen, but rather utilizes a screen that is designed to optimize reading. - The device has no camera. - The device is not offered or shipped to consumers with built-in ACS client applications and the device manufacturer does not develop ACS application s for its respective device, but the device may be offered or shipped to consumers with a browser and social media applications. - The device is marketed to consumers as a reading device and promotional material about the device does not tout the capability to access ACS. For further information, contact Rosaline Crawford, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-2075 or Rosaline.Crawford@fcc.gov. Links to the Waiver Extension Order: Word: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-117A1.docx PDF: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-117A1.pdf Text: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-15-117A1.txt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From OBriAman at uwyo.edu Wed Feb 4 08:14:45 2015 From: OBriAman at uwyo.edu (Amanda B. O'Brien) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Communication Access Coordinator position-University of Wyoming Message-ID: Good morning! The University of Wyoming is seeking to fill the position of Communication Access Coordinator (Project Coordinator, Sr.). Please see description and information on applying below. And feel free to pass the posting along to any interested parties. Project Coordinator, Senior University of Wyoming Main Campus You can view and apply for this job at: Employees please visit: https://selfservice.uwyo.edu/psp/HRSLF/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_EMP.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=7061&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1 Non-Employees please visit: https://jobs.uwyo.edu/psp/EREC/UWEXTERNAL/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=7061&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1 Thank you. Amanda B. O'Brien, M.S. Interim Director University Disability Support Services Dept. 3808 1000 E. University Ave. Laramie, WY 82071 109 Knight Hall (307) 766-6189 Fax: (307) 766-4010 www.uwyo.edu/udss "I can control my attitude, my effort and my focus every single day. Those are the things I'm going to worry about." -Tim Tebow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This resource is fabulous. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 Ron Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 8:47 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network; aheadmembers@listserve.com Subject: [Athen] New Accessibility Resource WGBH/NCAM have published another excellent accessible content resource. This one specifically focused on Test Item Development. While primarily focused on sensory disabilities I think it can be easily generalized to other disability populations. http://ncam.wgbh.org/experience_learn/educational_media/accessible-assessments/item-writer-guidelines Ron Stewart -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From todd.schwanke at wisc.edu Wed Feb 4 11:52:31 2015 From: todd.schwanke at wisc.edu (Todd Schwanke) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Job opening - Instructional and Media Technology Specialist at UW-Madison Message-ID: Good afternoon ATHEN: We currently have an exciting new job opportunity here at the McBurney Disability Resource Center (the office for students with disabilities) on the University of Wisconsin - Madison campus. This instructional technology position specializes in Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services (media captioning, ALDs, remote captioning/interpreting) and integration with campus instruction, but will be involved with other areas of the Center as well, such as databases, online training production, web/document/e-book accessibility, and AT. Please share with others who you think might be interested. http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/WebListing/Unclassified/PVLSummary.aspx?pvl_num=81821 http://www.mcburney.wisc.edu/facstaffother/jobseekers/index.php Applications are due Friday February 13, 2015 Summary The Instructional and Media Technology Specialist plans, develops, implements, and supports the delivery of technology-based classroom (traditional/online) accommodations along with the staff captioners and interpreters. The Specialist integrates these accommodations with traditional classrooms, blended/online courses, and instructional technology, with a primary focus on media captioning production, remote captioning delivery, and adaptive technology for students with hearing loss. Other responsibilities include creation of online trainings, web development, web accessibility, document/e-book accessibility, and other areas of adaptive/assistive technology. The position leverages innovation, project management, instructional design/technology, video, information technology, adaptive technology, and problem solving skills in conjunction with disability knowledge to provide high quality and effective services in the larger context of UW-Madison courses and universal design. This position is highly collaborative and is an instructional technology coordinator between students, faculty, captioners, interpreters, instructional technologists/designers, classroom support, IT support, and vendors. Thank you, Todd Schwanke McBurney Disability Resource Center UW-Madison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From karen.sorensen at pcc.edu Wed Feb 4 14:31:11 2015 From: karen.sorensen at pcc.edu (Karen Sorensen) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] New A11y Resource Message-ID: Thanks Ron! WGBH does some awesome work on some tough a11y issues! I appreciate their work. I've never heard the term, "item writer". Is that just me? Karen M. Sorensen Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland Community College 971-722-4720 *"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.?* Tim Berners-Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 14:44:02 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] New A11y Resource In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It is a term from the high stakes testing industry. These are the folks who develop test questions, they are called item writers. This document actually was developed to assist the testing industry, but has great applicability to the educational space. Ron On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Karen Sorensen wrote: > Thanks Ron! WGBH does some awesome work on some tough a11y issues! I > appreciate their work. I've never heard the term, "item writer". Is that > just me? > > Karen M. Sorensen > Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses > www.pcc.edu/access > Portland Community College > 971-722-4720 > *"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone > regardless of disability is an essential aspect.?* Tim Berners-Lee > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danc at uw.edu Wed Feb 4 15:05:03 2015 From: danc at uw.edu (Dan Comden) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Bound book scanner Message-ID: We're looking at options for scanning books without cutting the bindings. Considering the Bookeye 4 v3 and am curious if anyone has feedback on this model. Also, if there are other bound book scanners that are working well, I'm open to recommendations. Thanks. -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 15:21:09 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Bound book scanner In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It has gotten good reviews in the few applications were I have seen it in use. This type of units, not necessarily this brand, have also been showing up as self serve scanning in several of the libraries I evaluated recently and the stations are accessibility nightmares. Though given the price ~20k they are often only employed in large scaled digitization projects. These types of scanners tend to be very labor intensive as well so are best integrated as part of an production based program. The normal approach in alt format programs is to use bookedge scanners such as the Plustex units. They are cheap but very slow, > a minute for page. Given the speed of this unit it will pay for itself fairly soon in a volume environment. For an institution the size of UW, it probably would be a good investment, and much less expensive than similar units in this space. Ron Stewart On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Dan Comden > wrote: > We're looking at options for scanning books without cutting the bindings. > > Considering the Bookeye 4 v3 and am curious if anyone has feedback on this > model. Also, if there are other bound book scanners that are working well, > I'm open to recommendations. Thanks. > > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks. > > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 15:31:44 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Bound book scanner In-Reply-To: <9B6B56F9-8498-4471-957C-BD6F18F466E1@stanford.edu> References: <9B6B56F9-8498-4471-957C-BD6F18F466E1@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Dan what is the intended use for the unit? Ron On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Sean Keegan wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I know a few people in our library were interested in the Zeta model from > Zeutschel as a consideration for a book scanning station. I am not sure > they moved forward with that model, but it was very impressive looking ( > http://www.zeutschel.de/en/produkte/scanner/farbscanner/zeta.html). > > Unfortunately, I do not think it is very accessible given the touch screen > interface. > > Take care, > Sean > > > On Feb 4, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Dan Comden > wrote: > > We're looking at options for scanning books without cutting the bindings. > > Considering the Bookeye 4 v3 and am curious if anyone has feedback on this > model. Also, if there are other bound book scanners that are working well, > I'm open to recommendations. Thanks. > > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@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 Feb 4 15:50:29 2015 From: danc at uw.edu (Dan Comden) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Bound book scanner In-Reply-To: References: <9B6B56F9-8498-4471-957C-BD6F18F466E1@stanford.edu> Message-ID: This would be to digitize books that we cannot cut, primarily materials from the library that students need for their coursework. Additionally, the libraries would be able to use it for their digitizing projects. They currently have a homebrew system that uses two digital SLR cameras. It's an impressive feat of in-house engineering but is rather cumbersome to use. My intent is to share between disability services and library staff with our office providing support. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ron wrote: > Dan what is the intended use for the unit? > > Ron > > -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 15:53:34 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Bound book scanner In-Reply-To: References: <9B6B56F9-8498-4471-957C-BD6F18F466E1@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Thanks my thinking was on the right track then. On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Dan Comden wrote: > This would be to digitize books that we cannot cut, primarily materials > from the library that students need for their coursework. Additionally, the > libraries would be able to use it for their digitizing projects. They > currently have a homebrew system that uses two digital SLR cameras. It's an > impressive feat of in-house engineering but is rather cumbersome to use. > > My intent is to share between disability services and library staff with > our office providing support. > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Ron > wrote: > >> Dan what is the intended use for the unit? >> >> Ron >> >> > > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 16:09:59 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] WebAssign info needed In-Reply-To: <08c201d040d7$a811ceb0$f8356c10$@gmail.com> References: <08c201d040d7$a811ceb0$f8356c10$@gmail.com> Message-ID: No not really based on the latest look. Ron On Wednesday, February 4, 2015, Wink Harner wrote: > Hi All ATHEN-ites, > > > > Do any of you know/have any direct knowledge of whether WebAssign is > screen reader compatible with JAWS or NVDA? We have a blind student > potentially coming on board for spring term and while their website > *claims* accessibility, I wanted to know from a more hands-on source > whether in fact it is. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Wink Harner > > winkharner1113@gmail.com > > > foreigntype@gmail.com > > > > > (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. 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Please forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) From: Wink Harner [mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:07 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: WebAssign info needed Hi All ATHEN-ites, Do any of you know/have any direct knowledge of whether WebAssign is screen reader compatible with JAWS or NVDA? We have a blind student potentially coming on board for spring term and while their website *claims* accessibility, I wanted to know from a more hands-on source whether in fact it is. Thanks in advance. Wink Harner winkharner1113@gmail.com foreigntype@gmail.com (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From danc at uw.edu Wed Feb 4 16:41:37 2015 From: danc at uw.edu (Dan Comden) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: WebAssign info needed In-Reply-To: <099b01d040da$ec5954f0$c50bfed0$@gmail.com> References: <08c201d040d7$a811ceb0$f8356c10$@gmail.com> <099b01d040da$ec5954f0$c50bfed0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Wink, can they give you example content so you can verify? I know it's not what you asked for, however this might be useful as a flag for others communicating with vendors. My opinion: a vendor that claims screen reader accessibility without mentioning anything else (like WCAG 2.0) has at best an incomplete grasp of accessible design... Just my experience but it's been pretty consistent over the last few years. It's definitely a sign for me that a closer look will be required. -*- Dan On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Wink Harner wrote: > Clarifying: WebAssign website ?claims? screen reader accessibility in > their online books. I need to know if any of you have hands-on experience > with this site and know how much, if any accessibility there is with screen > readers, and more specifically if any of you have tested it for > accessibility recently. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Wink Harner > > winkharner1113@gmail.com > > foreigntype@gmail.com > > > > (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please > forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) > > > > > > > > *From:* Wink Harner [mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:07 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* WebAssign info needed > > > > Hi All ATHEN-ites, > > > > Do any of you know/have any direct knowledge of whether WebAssign is > screen reader compatible with JAWS or NVDA? We have a blind student > potentially coming on board for spring term and while their website > *claims* accessibility, I wanted to know from a more hands-on source > whether in fact it is. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > Wink Harner > > winkharner1113@gmail.com > > foreigntype@gmail.com > > > > (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please > forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Thu Feb 5 11:02:26 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Chief Digital Accessibility Officer announced at CU-Boulder Message-ID: <16A2AC6F-E500-4F5F-BCED-45E7E18266AA@stanford.edu> Hello all, I saw this posted on another list. CU-Boulder has filled their Chief Digital Accessibility Officer position and the article outlines some of the work effort that has been undertaken at this time (http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/jones-appointed-chief-digital-accessibility-officer). Looks like CU-Boulder people have been busy! I believe there are many similarities between an IT security program and an accessibility program at the university level, so I suppose I should not find it too surprising that the university chose to add the title and responsibilities to the person who was already the VP of Information Security rather than creating a separate position. It would be nice to see a Chief Accessibility Officer position established at a university, though. CU-Boulder is still looking for an IT Accessibility Program Manager - job posting at: https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/95257 Take care, Sean From Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU Thu Feb 5 12:17:18 2015 From: Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU (Susan Kelmer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Chief Digital Accessibility Officer announced at CU-Boulder In-Reply-To: <16A2AC6F-E500-4F5F-BCED-45E7E18266AA@stanford.edu> References: <16A2AC6F-E500-4F5F-BCED-45E7E18266AA@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB95D53F5F@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> We have been. :) Very busy! Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 107 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 303-735-4836 -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 12:02 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Chief Digital Accessibility Officer announced at CU-Boulder Hello all, I saw this posted on another list. CU-Boulder has filled their Chief Digital Accessibility Officer position and the article outlines some of the work effort that has been undertaken at this time (http://www.colorado.edu/news/features/jones-appointed-chief-digital-accessibility-officer). Looks like CU-Boulder people have been busy! I believe there are many similarities between an IT security program and an accessibility program at the university level, so I suppose I should not find it too surprising that the university chose to add the title and responsibilities to the person who was already the VP of Information Security rather than creating a separate position. It would be nice to see a Chief Accessibility Officer position established at a university, though. CU-Boulder is still looking for an IT Accessibility Program Manager - job posting at: https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/95257 Take care, Sean _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From lisa.brandt1 at pcc.edu Thu Feb 5 12:36:18 2015 From: lisa.brandt1 at pcc.edu (Lisa Brandt) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] =?utf-8?q?Fwd=3A_FW=3A_For_the_pre-alpha=3A_Heartbeat_acc?= =?utf-8?q?essibility_testing_=E2=80=94_we_need_VoiceOver=2C_Braill?= =?utf-8?q?e=2C_and_switch_users?= In-Reply-To: References: <0000014b5a725f21-5b06135c-dbe8-4747-830f-38cd54736854-000000@email.amazonses.com> Message-ID: (See https://ind.ie/about/vision/ for information about Heartbeat.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Aral Balkan* (hello@ind.ie) Sent: Thu 2/05/15 7:53 AM Hello everyone, I have a quick request to share with you from the private pre-alpha: I?m working this week on the initial accessibility features in the setup flow for Heartbeat and we?d love to have some VoiceOver, Braille, and switch users to start testing with. If any of you use these assistive devices (or others), please let us know. I?ve initially sent this request, of course, to our pre-alpha list but that is a very small sample so I?m also emailing you on the main mailing list and will be asking on Twitter to see if there are any assistive device users there who want to take part in the pre-alpha. Also, if you have any friends who use assistive devices and are running OS X Yosemite, it would be wonderful to invite them to the pre-alpha so we can get their feedback. (If you know of anyone in Brighton, in the UK, that would be doubly awesome as we could test in-person.) Accessibility is not separate to design, it?s a core element. It?s also a core tenet of the Ind.ie manifesto . The superlative built-in accessibility support in OS X is one of the major reasons why we chose it as our reference platform. I appreciate any help you can provide in making sure that Heartbeat is accessible to as many people as possible. Love, [image: Aral] *Founder and Lead Designer, ind.ie * PS. If you ever want to get in touch with us, just email hello@ind.ie. (And don?t forget to follow @indie for smaller, more frequent updates and related news.) :) PPS. If you?d rather not receive any more updates from Indie, just follow this link to unsubscribe . -- Lisa Brandt, PCC Disability Services Accessibility Technician Alternate Media Formats Technician 971-722-4366 SY CC 260 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsutton2 at stanford.edu Fri Feb 6 09:49:18 2015 From: jsutton2 at stanford.edu (Jennifer Sutton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Justice Department Reaches Settlements with Four Cities Across the Country to Remove Disability-Related Questions from Job Applications and Ensure Web Accessibility Message-ID: ATHENites: While not related to higher Ed., thought I'd share this here, for those of you who like to keep an eye on the legal landscape. Justice Department Reaches Settlements with Four Cities Across the Country to Remove Disability-Related Questions from Job Applications and Ensure Web Accessibility | OPA | Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-settlements-four- cities-across-country-remove-disability-related -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lissner.2 at osu.edu Sat Feb 7 08:37:39 2015 From: lissner.2 at osu.edu (Lissner, L S. (Scott )) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Multiple Perspectives Tentative Program Schedule Message-ID: Celebrate Our Progress - Write Our Future History at the 2015 Multiple Perspcetives Conference, April 13-14. Details on the program will be available next week but below is a sneak peak and a reminder that student poster presentation proposals are due March 15. Monday, April 13, 2015 Topics in Community Integration for People with disabilities 1-Going to College: Integrated Employment and Academic Opportunities for Students with Intellectual Disabilities 2-A Problematic Hurdle: Soft Skills to Seek and Keep a Job. Session C: Barrier Free Healthcare: A Recent Point of Emphasis 25 Years in the Making Session D: 1-The ADA at 25: How does it Measure Up in Comparison with The Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities? 2-Access Abroad: International Study for Students & Scholars with Disabilities 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Sessions. Session A: Understanding Reasonable Accommodations Under the ADAAA and Emerging Issues In the Law Session B: The ABC's of YLF (Youth Leadership Forum) Session C: Update From The Department of Education's Office For Civil Rights Session D: Toward Universal Suffrage: Voting and People with Intellectual or Cognitive Disabilities 12:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Lunch and Networking: Blackwell Ballrooms 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Session A: Health Status and Disparities among People with Disabilities in Ohio Session B: Inter-Ability Marriage: How Love is Lame Session C: Update From The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Session D: Eric Garner in Historical Perspective: Interrogating "Ableist Criminality" 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Free & Open to the Public Ken Campbell Memorial Lecture: "The Stories We Tell: The Americans with Disabilities Act After 25 Years" presented by Lennard J. Davis. Based on his forthcoming book, Enabling Acts the human story illustrating the successes and shortcomings of the ADA in areas ranging from employment, education, and transportation to shifting social attitudes. Student Perspectives Ethel Louise Armstrong Student Poster Presentations and Reception. Network with professionals, the community, and scholars who share an interests in disability. A generous gift from the Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation funds cash awards for graduate research, undergraduate research, arts, community service and class projects focused on disability. Student poster submissions are due 3/11/15 Tuesday , April 14, 2015 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Concurrent Sessions Session A: Disability & accessibility as a matter of course in university life Session B: Communicating and instructing faculty on accessibility considerations for Web or LMS content Session C: Collaborating to Create Audio Access for Digital Image Collections Session D: At the Intersections of Disability and Feminist Theories: Toward the Transformative Inclusion of Diverse Students with Disabilities in STEM Fields 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Session A: Perception and attitudes toward people who are deaf or hard of hearing among college students Session B: Accessibility Strategy for a Large University Session C: At the Expense of Joy: Human Rights Violations in Applied Behavioral Analysis Session D: Student Veterans with Psychological and Physical Wounds: Enhancing Access and Inclusion 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. Lunch and Networking Blackwell Hotel Ballrooms 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions Session A: ADA Q&A Staff and Board From The Center for Disability Empowerment Answer Your Questions Session B: P.E.A.C.E: Communication Access through Universal Design Principles Session C: On Teaching the R-Word: A Dialogue about Inclusive Language and Inclusive Spaces Session D: Paving the Path to College Success: Experiences of Students with Physical Disabilities 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Free and Open to the Public The Ethel Louise Armstrong Memorial Lecture: "The Hearing World Around Me" presented by Trix Bruce reflects culture clash and connection, contact and confusion, and the many ways which language and identity can shape our perceptions. Celebrate Our Progress - Write Our Future History at the 2015 Multiple Perspcetives Conference, April 13-14. [cid:A30A1A2B-1A0D-4CC1-9887-5EB2E498064B] L. Scott Lissner ADA Coordinator & 504 Compliance Officer Office Of Diversity And Inclusion, The Ohio State University Associate, John Glenn School of Public Affairs Lecturer, Knowlton School of Architecture, Moritz College of Law & Disability Studies Board, Center for Disability Empowerment Appointed: State HAVA Committee & Columbus Advisory Council on Disability Issues -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 41478 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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A generous gift from the Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation will fund awards (Graduate Research - $500; Undergraduate Research $200, Art & Performance $200 and Community Service $100, Class Projects $200 at this year's competition. Submissions may be based on: 1. Class Projects & Papers (Award goes to Department to support future projects) 2. Independent & Supervised Student Research 3. Community Service & Applied Problem Solving from Service Learning Classes or student organizations 4. Art & Performance Posters can take a variety of forms including print material mounted on poster board or display panels or arranged on a table; PowerPoint presentations, web pages or video presentations from your laptop ... * Presentation materials must fit on a 3'x6' table or along 6' or less of wall space * Presentation materials should present the information in 10 minutes or less * Presenters or their designee must be present to interact with the audience * Presenters must provide their own equipment Visit these sites for tips on developing a poster presentation: * http://denman.osu.edu/resources.aspx * http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/poster/index.cfm * http://www.plu.edu/~libr/workshops/multimedia/posters.html Students and teams of students who wish to present a poster must send the following information to ADA-OSU@osu.edu no later than March 11, 2015 1. Title 2. Short Title - 12 word maximum 3. Poster Format (Print, Model, PowerPoint, Video, ...) 4. Description of their proposed poster topic - 250 word maximum 5. E-mail address, phone number, and surface mail address of coordinating presenter 6. As appropriate, university, department, grant, course or student organization affiliation 7. A letter of support from a faculty member or organization advisor associated with the project 8. Name of individual, Department or Organization to receive cash award should the project win. Please Note: The full conference fees will be waived and lunch provided for presenters of accepted proposals. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and lodging. The Multiple Perspectives Conference is hosted by Ohio State University's ADA Coordinator's Office is made possible thanks to the generosity of the Ethel Louise Armstrong Foundation Endowment Fund and ongoing support from The Ohio State University's Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Disability Empowerment Celebrate Our Progress - Write Our Future History at the 2015 Multiple Perspcetives Conference, April 13-14. [cid:A30A1A2B-1A0D-4CC1-9887-5EB2E498064B] L. Scott Lissner ADA Coordinator & 504 Compliance Officer Office Of Diversity And Inclusion, The Ohio State University Associate, John Glenn School of Public Affairs Lecturer, Knowlton School of Architecture, Moritz College of Law & Disability Studies Board, Center for Disability Empowerment Appointed: State HAVA Committee & Columbus Advisory Council on Disability Issues -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JAWS reads the "_" fine, repeating the character only 3 or so times. Even when I turn on punctuation in NVDA to read "_" always, it still will only read the characters when a spell command is issued. Are either of you aware of this issue? Looking at the code I would judge the text with these characters accessible - yet NVDA seems to have a pretty hard time finding and reading these characters. Are you aware of an accessibility best practice that call for using something other than an underscore "_" for indicating a blank. Also, noticed that JAWS doesn't seem to work well with FF or is that my lack of skill with JAWS? NVDA seems to work very well with Firefox - this is the only glitch I've come across. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. -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 hkramer at colorado.edu Mon Feb 9 15:09:13 2015 From: hkramer at colorado.edu (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sorry - meant to send this out to 2 specific people but welcome anyone who has a response on these issues. -Howard On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Howard Kramer wrote: > Hello All: > > This question will get into the technical weeds. I've been testing a few > systems here at UCB with JAWS 15/I.E. 11 and NVDA (ver. 2014.4)/Firefox > (ver. 35.01). > > The one issue I came across which is causing confusion is that NVDA does > not read the underscore "_" character out unless you're on the word and > issue the spell command. The underscore "_" is used in a number of foreign > language exams as a "fill in the blank line" placeholder. JAWS reads the > "_" fine, repeating the character only 3 or so times. Even when I turn on > punctuation in NVDA to read "_" always, it still will only read the > characters when a spell command is issued. > > Are either of you aware of this issue? Looking at the code I would judge > the text with these characters accessible - yet NVDA seems to have a pretty > hard time finding and reading these characters. Are you aware of an > accessibility best practice that call for using something other than an > underscore "_" for indicating a blank. > > Also, noticed that JAWS doesn't seem to work well with FF or is that my > lack of skill with JAWS? NVDA seems to work very well with Firefox - this > is the only glitch I've come across. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > -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 > -- 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 Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu Mon Feb 9 17:08:32 2015 From: Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu (Kluesner, Bryon) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Unusual request Message-ID: <56C15F5F7FD04146924173920805DF613E24F127@UTCMBX1.utc.tennessee.edu> This may sound odd, but does anyone have an inaccessible document, PDF image file they would be willing to share? When I convert faculty PDF readings, I save only the accessible file. I need to demonstrate to faculty how image files are not accessible to JAWS and Kurzweil. The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) committee I m a member of is hosting a Tech Fair this Thursday. Thanks. Bryon Bryon Kluesner, RhD Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Adjunct Faculty College of Health, Education & Professional Studies University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Go MOCS! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jbailey at uoregon.edu Mon Feb 9 17:32:40 2015 From: jbailey at uoregon.edu (James Bailey) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Unusual request In-Reply-To: <56C15F5F7FD04146924173920805DF613E24F127@UTCMBX1.utc.tennessee.edu> References: <56C15F5F7FD04146924173920805DF613E24F127@UTCMBX1.utc.tennessee.edu> Message-ID: Byron, One thing I do is delete the tags from a complex (columns, tables, lists, links, images etc.) PDF. Generally JAWS shows all the flaws when the tags are gone. The bonus is you can then demo the same PDF with tags for comparison. Good Luck, James Bailey M.S. Associate Director Accessible Education Center University of Oregon From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kluesner, Bryon Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 5:09 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Unusual request This may sound odd, but does anyone have an inaccessible document, PDF image file they would be willing to share? When I convert faculty PDF readings, I save only the accessible file. I need to demonstrate to faculty how image files are not accessible to JAWS and Kurzweil. The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) committee I m a member of is hosting a Tech Fair this Thursday. Thanks. Bryon Bryon Kluesner, RhD Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Adjunct Faculty College of Health, Education & Professional Studies University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Go MOCS! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Mon Feb 9 18:17:39 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Unusual request In-Reply-To: References: <56C15F5F7FD04146924173920805DF613E24F127@UTCMBX1.utc.tennessee.edu> Message-ID: <268877914.2451123.1423534659061.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> Hi Byron, I will second James's suggestion of having a PDF document that is tagged and the same document in an image format. It it easy to create the inaccessible PDF from the accessible PDF version - just save it as an image file (TIFF, PNG, JPG, etc.). You can do this from Adobe Acrobat (File > Save As Other... > Image > desired file format). As James mentioned, it is a nice way of showing how the same document can be accessible depending on how it is created. Given the use case you mentioned, I am not sure I understand the Kurzweil angle. Does Kurzweil now read tagged PDF documents? My understanding was that it would either run OCR on the file or, at best, just try and read the text layer. Just reading the text layer, however, does not equate to an accessible PDF. For example, the document could be a text-based PDF (no headings, image descriptions, logical reading order, etc.) and yet there could still be text spoken. Take care, Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Bailey" To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 5:32:40 PM Subject: Re: [Athen] Unusual request Byron, One thing I do is delete the tags from a complex (columns, tables, lists, links, images etc.) PDF. Generally JAWS shows all the flaws when the tags are gone. The bonus is you can then demo the same PDF with tags for comparison. Good Luck, James Bailey M.S. Associate Director Accessible Education Center University of Oregon From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Kluesner, Bryon Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 5:09 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Unusual request This may sound odd, but does anyone have an inaccessible document, PDF image file they would be willing to share? When I convert faculty PDF readings, I save only the accessible file. I need to demonstrate to faculty how image files are not accessible to JAWS and Kurzweil. The Accessible Technology Initiative (ATI) committee I m a member of is hosting a Tech Fair this Thursday. Thanks. Bryon Bryon Kluesner, RhD Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center Adjunct Faculty College of Health, Education & Professional Studies University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Go MOCS! _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From karen.sorensen at pcc.edu Mon Feb 9 22:58:03 2015 From: karen.sorensen at pcc.edu (Karen Sorensen) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] WebAssign info Message-ID: Hi Wink, We have done some testing of WebAssign. All of the WebAssign equations are images with alt. text, which makes some short-term sense since screen readers don't speak math well or consistently these days, but as you guessed I'm sure, that also means the student can't parse out the equation using a screen reader, which really makes studying math difficult. WebAssign does do an awesome job describing graphs though. But then they don't go all the way with the alt text. There are still many real text math symbols used along with the images of equations, so WebAssign has instructions on how to set your screen reader up to read those symbols, but after many, many, many times trying, talking and troubleshooting with WebAssign accessibility rep, we were never able to successfully set JAWS 15 up to read the math in real text. JAWS consistently read the exponents as whole numbers for example.( And then our tester was annoyed that her settings were all messed up. So we didn't try changing VoiceOver settings.) So I don't know. Is it accessible? I wouldn't feel comfortable with a distance student who used a screen reader taking a class that used it. Hope that helps. Karen Karen M. Sorensen Accessibility Advocate for Online Courses www.pcc.edu/access Portland Community College 971-722-4720 *"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.?* Tim Berners-Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bossley.5 at osu.edu Tue Feb 10 06:32:32 2015 From: bossley.5 at osu.edu (Bossley, Peter A. (Pete)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <006B5C8325EEDA44A1A7D3955F5431CD7D598CDB@CIO-KRC-D1MBX04.osuad.osu.edu> Howard, In our experience, JAWS support for firefox is not full-featured like it?s support for IE is; NVDA is the opposite, working much better with FF than IE. From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Kramer Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 6:07 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA Hello All: This question will get into the technical weeds. I've been testing a few systems here at UCB with JAWS 15/I.E. 11 and NVDA (ver. 2014.4)/Firefox (ver. 35.01). The one issue I came across which is causing confusion is that NVDA does not read the underscore "_" character out unless you're on the word and issue the spell command. The underscore "_" is used in a number of foreign language exams as a "fill in the blank line" placeholder. JAWS reads the "_" fine, repeating the character only 3 or so times. Even when I turn on punctuation in NVDA to read "_" always, it still will only read the characters when a spell command is issued. Are either of you aware of this issue? Looking at the code I would judge the text with these characters accessible - yet NVDA seems to have a pretty hard time finding and reading these characters. Are you aware of an accessibility best practice that call for using something other than an underscore "_" for indicating a blank. Also, noticed that JAWS doesn't seem to work well with FF or is that my lack of skill with JAWS? NVDA seems to work very well with Firefox - this is the only glitch I've come across. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. -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 hkramer at ahead.org Tue Feb 10 08:59:24 2015 From: hkramer at ahead.org (Howard Kramer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA In-Reply-To: <006B5C8325EEDA44A1A7D3955F5431CD7D598CDB@CIO-KRC-D1MBX04.osuad.osu.edu> References: <006B5C8325EEDA44A1A7D3955F5431CD7D598CDB@CIO-KRC-D1MBX04.osuad.osu.edu> Message-ID: Thanks Peter. -Howard On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Bossley, Peter A. (Pete) wrote: > Howard, > > In our experience, JAWS support for firefox is not full-featured like it?s > support for IE is; NVDA is the opposite, working much better with FF than > IE. > > > > > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Howard Kramer > *Sent:* Monday, February 09, 2015 6:07 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* [Athen] testing with JAWS & NVDA > > > > Hello All: > > > > This question will get into the technical weeds. I've been testing a few > systems here at UCB with JAWS 15/I.E. 11 and NVDA (ver. 2014.4)/Firefox > (ver. 35.01). > > > > The one issue I came across which is causing confusion is that NVDA does > not read the underscore "_" character out unless you're on the word and > issue the spell command. The underscore "_" is used in a number of foreign > language exams as a "fill in the blank line" placeholder. JAWS reads the > "_" fine, repeating the character only 3 or so times. Even when I turn on > punctuation in NVDA to read "_" always, it still will only read the > characters when a spell command is issued. > > > > Are either of you aware of this issue? Looking at the code I would judge > the text with these characters accessible - yet NVDA seems to have a pretty > hard time finding and reading these characters. Are you aware of an > accessibility best practice that call for using something other than an > underscore "_" for indicating a blank. > > > > Also, noticed that JAWS doesn't seem to work well with FF or is that my > lack of skill with JAWS? NVDA seems to work very well with Firefox - this > is the only glitch I've come across. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > > > -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 > > -- 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 mstoddar at sfu.ca Tue Feb 10 12:19:17 2015 From: mstoddar at sfu.ca (Mitchell Stoddard) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Best calendars to use for VI In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <288893959.14143379.1423599557687.JavaMail.zimbra@sfu.ca> Hi Folks, We have a student who has profound visual loss and who relies on Jaws to access written materials. He is seeking a volunteer position at the university which will involve staffing an active front desk in the recreation centre. The position requires that he be able to check and confirm appointments and make and enter new appointments for the various services (e.g., yes we have available sessions with a private trainer on the Thursday...John is usually available on Tuesday's but not next week). The university (and the rec centre) uses a Zimbra based calendar (Connect), and we are finding that the use of Jaws to navigate the calendar is really problematic. We have considered segmenting the calendar so as to limit the amount of information that is displayed on each view. We would also be interested in whether there are other calendar programs that might work better with Jaws (we would consider exporting the information from Zimbra to an alternate calendar program - which might allow the student to more readily check and confirm appointments). Any recommendation regarding calendar software which is easy to navigate for those with visual impairment who are using Jaws? Thanks for your thoughts. Mitchell Mitchell Stoddard, Ph.D., R. Psych. Director, Centre for Students with Disabilities Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive (1250 MBC) Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Phone: 778-782-3313 Email: mitchell_stoddard@sfu.ca If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" ~John Dewey This electronic mail message and any accompanying attachments may contain privileged, confidential or personal information intended only for the use of the individual, entity or organization named or addressed above. Any disclosure, distribution, dissemination, copying or action taken in reliance on the contents of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error please delete the email (from your incoming and trash files) and notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone. Thank you. From Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU Tue Feb 10 12:43:32 2015 From: Susan.Kelmer at Colorado.EDU (Susan Kelmer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] CSUN attendance? Message-ID: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB95D54156@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Is it too early to ask who is going to CSUN this year? Do we want to do an ATHEN dinner/get together? Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 107 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 303-735-4836 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From info at karlencommunications.com Tue Feb 10 13:27:22 2015 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] CSUN attendance? In-Reply-To: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB95D54156@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> References: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB95D54156@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Message-ID: <000001d04578$5ceca8b0$16c5fa10$@karlencommunications.com> Susan I'm going and doing a session on PDF/UA Tuesday morning. I did an interview prior to the session: http://www.accessiq.org/news/features/2015/02/accessible-pdfs-and-the-potent ial-of-pdfua Cheers, Karen From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: February 10, 2015 3:44 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] CSUN attendance? Is it too early to ask who is going to CSUN this year? Do we want to do an ATHEN dinner/get together? Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 107 UCB Boulder, CO 80309 303-735-4836 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lisa.brandt1 at pcc.edu Tue Feb 10 13:48:29 2015 From: lisa.brandt1 at pcc.edu (Lisa Brandt) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:13 2018 Subject: [Athen] Best calendars to use for VI In-Reply-To: <288893959.14143379.1423599557687.JavaMail.zimbra@sfu.ca> References: <288893959.14143379.1423599557687.JavaMail.zimbra@sfu.ca> Message-ID: It looks like Zimbra does support CalDAV: http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/CalDav_Support Rather than exporting, you could sync a desktop app via CalDAV. I'm not sure which desktop software works best with JAWS, but many should be able to sync that way. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Mitchell Stoddard wrote: > Hi Folks, > > We have a student who has profound visual loss and who relies on Jaws to > access written materials. He is seeking a volunteer position at the > university which will involve staffing an active front desk in the > recreation centre. The position requires that he be able to check and > confirm appointments and make and enter new appointments for the various > services (e.g., yes we have available sessions with a private trainer on > the Thursday...John is usually available on Tuesday's but not next week). > The university (and the rec centre) uses a Zimbra based calendar (Connect), > and we are finding that the use of Jaws to navigate the calendar is really > problematic. We have considered segmenting the calendar so as to limit the > amount of information that is displayed on each view. We would also be > interested in whether there are other calendar programs that might work > better with Jaws (we would consider exporting the information from Zimbra > to an alternate calendar program - which mi! > ght allow the student to more readily check and confirm appointments). > > Any recommendation regarding calendar software which is easy to navigate > for those with visual impairment who are using Jaws? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Mitchell > > > Mitchell Stoddard, Ph.D., R. Psych. > Director, Centre for Students with Disabilities > Simon Fraser University > 8888 University Drive (1250 MBC) > Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 > > Phone: 778-782-3313 > Email: mitchell_stoddard@sfu.ca > > If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" > ~John Dewey > > This electronic mail message and any accompanying attachments may contain > privileged, confidential or personal information intended only for the use > of the individual, entity or organization named or addressed above. Any > disclosure, distribution, dissemination, copying or action taken in > reliance on the contents of this communication by anyone other than the > intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you received this > communication in error please delete the email (from your incoming and > trash files) and notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone. > Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -- Lisa Brandt, PCC Disability Services Accessibility Technician Alternate Media Formats Technician 971-722-4366 SY CC 260 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Tue Feb 10 14:45:18 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] Best calendars to use for VI In-Reply-To: References: <288893959.14143379.1423599557687.JavaMail.zimbra@sfu.ca> Message-ID: <50F15B0A-4D24-497D-9AF7-768D549B1D9D@stanford.edu> Hi Mitchell, Yes - Zimbra is not going to play well with JAWS. One option may be to consider MS Outlook to sync with the Zimbra calendar. I have not tested JAWS and Outlook compatibility in some time, but there are a number of resources that could provide useful. I am not sure which version of Outlook you would have access to, so here is a few options for 2010 and 2013: MS Outlook 2010 from the Keyboard: http://www.karlencommunications.com/adobe/Outlook2010FromTheKeyboard.pdf A Guide for Configuring Outlook with JAWS (Outlook 2010): http://www.hartgen.org/node/188 An Immersion into Outlook 2013 with JFW (this looks like something you have to purchase): http://www.blind.training/shop/outlook13-jfw-toc.htm Outlook 2013 Lesson: http://doccenter.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/doccenter/rs11f929e9c511/2013-09-12_outlook2013-l3/02_outlook2013-l3.htm Take care, Sean On Feb 10, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Lisa Brandt wrote: > It looks like Zimbra does support CalDAV: http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/CalDav_Support > > Rather than exporting, you could sync a desktop app via CalDAV. I'm not sure which desktop software works best with JAWS, but many should be able to sync that way. > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Mitchell Stoddard wrote: > Hi Folks, > > We have a student who has profound visual loss and who relies on Jaws to access written materials. He is seeking a volunteer position at the university which will involve staffing an active front desk in the recreation centre. The position requires that he be able to check and confirm appointments and make and enter new appointments for the various services (e.g., yes we have available sessions with a private trainer on the Thursday...John is usually available on Tuesday's but not next week). The university (and the rec centre) uses a Zimbra based calendar (Connect), and we are finding that the use of Jaws to navigate the calendar is really problematic. We have considered segmenting the calendar so as to limit the amount of information that is displayed on each view. We would also be interested in whether there are other calendar programs that might work better with Jaws (we would consider exporting the information from Zimbra to an alternate calendar program - which mi! > ght allow the student to more readily check and confirm appointments). > > Any recommendation regarding calendar software which is easy to navigate for those with visual impairment who are using Jaws? > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > Mitchell > > > Mitchell Stoddard, Ph.D., R. Psych. > Director, Centre for Students with Disabilities > Simon Fraser University > 8888 University Drive (1250 MBC) > Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 > > Phone: 778-782-3313 > Email: mitchell_stoddard@sfu.ca > > If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" ~John Dewey > > This electronic mail message and any accompanying attachments may contain privileged, confidential or personal information intended only for the use of the individual, entity or organization named or addressed above. Any disclosure, distribution, dissemination, copying or action taken in reliance on the contents of this communication by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error please delete the email (from your incoming and trash files) and notify the sender immediately by email or by telephone. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > -- > Lisa Brandt, PCC Disability Services > Accessibility Technician > Alternate Media Formats Technician > 971-722-4366 > SY CC 260 > _______________________________________________ > 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 Keith.Bundy at dsu.edu Tue Feb 10 14:56:40 2015 From: Keith.Bundy at dsu.edu (Bundy, Keith) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] Best calendars to use for VI In-Reply-To: <50F15B0A-4D24-497D-9AF7-768D549B1D9D@stanford.edu> References: <288893959.14143379.1423599557687.JavaMail.zimbra@sfu.ca> <50F15B0A-4D24-497D-9AF7-768D549B1D9D@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I use JAWS with the calendar in Outlook 2010 daily and have no major issues. Sometimes the interface is just a bit sluggish, but that could be this particular computer. Other than that, it works very well! Keith Bundy, MS Dakota State University Phone: 605-256-5121 Email: keith.bundy@dsu.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 4:45 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Best calendars to use for VI Hi Mitchell, Yes - Zimbra is not going to play well with JAWS. One option may be to consider MS Outlook to sync with the Zimbra calendar. I have not tested JAWS and Outlook compatibility in some time, but there are a number of resources that could provide useful. I am not sure which version of Outlook you would have access to, so here is a few options for 2010 and 2013: MS Outlook 2010 from the Keyboard: http://www.karlencommunications.com/adobe/Outlook2010FromTheKeyboard.pdf A Guide for Configuring Outlook with JAWS (Outlook 2010): http://www.hartgen.org/node/188 An Immersion into Outlook 2013 with JFW (this looks like something you have to purchase): http://www.blind.training/shop/outlook13-jfw-toc.htm Outlook 2013 Lesson: http://doccenter.freedomscientific.com/doccenter/doccenter/rs11f929e9c511/2013-09-12_outlook2013-l3/02_outlook2013-l3.htm Take care, Sean On Feb 10, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Lisa Brandt > wrote: It looks like Zimbra does support CalDAV: http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/CalDav_Support Rather than exporting, you could sync a desktop app via CalDAV. I'm not sure which desktop software works best with JAWS, but many should be able to sync that way. On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Mitchell Stoddard > wrote: Hi Folks, We have a student who has profound visual loss and who relies on Jaws to access written materials. He is seeking a volunteer position at the university which will involve staffing an active front desk in the recreation centre. The position requires that he be able to check and confirm appointments and make and enter new appointments for the various services (e.g., yes we have available sessions with a private trainer on the Thursday...John is usually available on Tuesday's but not next week). The university (and the rec centre) uses a Zimbra based calendar (Connect), and we are finding that the use of Jaws to navigate the calendar is really problematic. We have considered segmenting the calendar so as to limit the amount of information that is displayed on each view. We would also be interested in whether there are other calendar programs that might work better with Jaws (we would consider exporting the information from Zimbra to an alternate calendar program - which mi! ght allow the student to more readily check and confirm appointments). Any recommendation regarding calendar software which is easy to navigate for those with visual impairment who are using Jaws? Thanks for your thoughts. Mitchell Mitchell Stoddard, Ph.D., R. Psych. Director, Centre for Students with Disabilities Simon Fraser University 8888 University Drive (1250 MBC) Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Phone: 778-782-3313 Email: mitchell_stoddard@sfu.ca If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" ~John Dewey This electronic mail message and any accompanying attachments may contain privileged, confidential or personal information intended only for the use of the individual, entity or organization named or addressed above. 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Do we want to do > an ATHEN dinner/get together? > > > > *Susan Kelmer* > > *Alternate Format Coordinator* > > *Disability Services* > > *University of Colorado Boulder* > > *107 UCB* > > *Boulder, CO 80309* > > *303-735-4836 <303-735-4836>* > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 smtreris at syr.edu Wed Feb 11 06:49:35 2015 From: smtreris at syr.edu (Sharon M Trerise) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] degree audit tools Message-ID: We are looking at degree audit tools including DegreeWorks. It is a very comprehensive product but has some accessibility issues. 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I'm thinking it just isn't properly coded, but web development is a little beyond my reach. The folks who are developing this have asked me to ask you. Hopefully my explanation made sense! Any thoughts are welcomed. Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. 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Here's the thread, in case it helps: http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=6781 Jennifer From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:37 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] JAWS and IFRAME Hello my fellow AT enthusiasts. Does anyone have any thoughts/feedback on the accessibility of JAWS with Iframes? We are currently using them for our student login on our front facing main page and I'm having a hard time getting JAWS to play well. JAWS isn't picking up focus once I click on the login link, if I force the cursor into the login Iframe, JAWS isn't reading any of the form fields of links properly (i.e. Forgot your password link) either. I'm thinking it just isn't properly coded, but web development is a little beyond my reach. The folks who are developing this have asked me to ask you. Hopefully my explanation made sense! Any thoughts are welcomed. Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. 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Ttactile overlays available from National Braille Press ? 3d models of the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes that can be printed it on a 3d printer ? Teacher support page ? Tutorial video for Teachers of the Visually Impaired Best, Ed -- Ed Summers Senior Manager, Accessibility and Applied Assistive Technology Got data? Get SAS ? THE POWER TO KNOW www.sas.com/accessibility ed.summers@sas.com www.linkedin.com/in/edsummersnc www.twitter.com/edsummersnc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jeff Neal, a spokesman for Harvard, said that while he could not comment on the litigation, Harvard expects the United States Department of Justice to issue proposed rules later this year ?to provide much-needed guidance in this area,? and that the university will follow whatever rules are adopted. A spokeswoman for M.I.T. said the university was committed to making its materials accessible to its students and online learners who are hearing-impaired, and includes captioning in all new course videos and its most popular online courses. The case highlights the increasingly important role of online materials in higher education. M.I.T. and Harvard have extensive materials available free online, on platforms like YouTube, iTunesU, Harvard@Home and MIT OpenCourseWare. In addition, the two universities are the founding partners of edX, a nonprofit that offers dozens of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, free to students around the world. The complaints say Harvard and M.I.T. violated both the Americans With Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and seek a permanent injunction requiring them to provide closed captioning ? which provides a text version of the words being spoken ? for their online materials. Despite repeated requests by the association, the complaints say, the two universities provide captioning in only a fraction of the materials, ?and even then, inadequately.? The lawsuits, filed by the National Association of the Deaf, say the universities have ?largely denied access to this content to the approximately 48 million ? nearly one out of five ? Americans who are deaf or hard of hearing.? Bill Lann Lee, the Oakland, Calif., lawyer who represented the association along with lawyers from several disability rights groups, said the association thought that because Harvard and M.I.T. have been leaders in putting university content online, a change in their practices would have impact on other universities? policies. Last year, the association filed a lawsuit against Netflix, saying the company?s failure to provide closed captioning on its streaming video content violated the antidiscrimination laws. The case was settled with an agreement that Netflix would provide captioning on all of its on-demand streaming content by Sept. 30, 2014. Similarly, in 2013, the association announced that it was working with Apple on captioning the iTunes library of television and movie offerings so that every title would have closed captioning or subtitles by June 2015. *READ MORE - http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over-failing-to-caption-online-courses.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ndogbo at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 09:18:36 2015 From: ndogbo at gmail.com (N. Dogbo) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] JAWS and IFRAME In-Reply-To: <7c13de12.00001740.00000002@Jennifer-PC.state.ma.us> References: <7c13de12.00001740.00000002@Jennifer-PC.state.ma.us> Message-ID: It looks to me like coding and focus issues and not iframe or JAWS issues. Are you using RIA widgets and stuff? Also are you experiencing this with more than one browsers? Lastly, you're indeed talking about iframe and not overlays / modals, right? Thx, Nicaise On 2/12/15, Jennifer Sutton wrote: > This topic of titles and iframes was just discussed on the WebAIm list. > Here's the thread, in case it helps: > > http://webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread?thread=6781 > > > > Jennifer > > > > > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On > Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:37 AM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] JAWS and IFRAME > > > > Hello my fellow AT enthusiasts. > > > > Does anyone have any thoughts/feedback on the accessibility of JAWS with > Iframes? We are currently using them for our student login on our front > facing main page and I'm having a hard time getting JAWS to play well. > JAWS isn't picking up focus once I click on the login link, if I force the > cursor into the login Iframe, JAWS isn't reading any of the form fields > of links properly (i.e. Forgot your password link) either. > > > > I'm thinking it just isn't properly coded, but web development is a little > beyond my reach. The folks who are developing this have asked me to ask > you. > > > > Hopefully my explanation made sense! Any thoughts are welcomed. > > > > > > Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. > > > > Coordinator, Assistive Technology > > Student Accessibility Services > > Kent State University > > Ground Floor, Rm. 23 > > DeWeese Center > > P.O. Box 5190 > > Kent, Ohio 44242 > > > > Phone: 330-672-3391 > > Fax: 330-672-3763 > > Email: mdimac@kent.edu > > > > www.kent.edu/sas > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may > contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual > or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended > recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this > message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have > received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is > prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or > forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by > calling 330-672-3001. > > > > -- ----- Think not with your EYES and you shall have a perfect VISION! --- From varnado at gonzaga.edu Thu Feb 12 11:57:20 2015 From: varnado at gonzaga.edu (Varnado, Jason) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] JAWS and PYTHON compliers Message-ID: <3EE1A90BE1E4D24D99DA9D9D19AB903B013060989D@ITS-MBX-A.gonzaga.edu> Good morning all, Does anyone have any experience with getting JAWS to read the compiled output of Python code? We have a VI student in a Python class here and I can get JAWS to read the compiled output when we compile a single line in the command line (e.g. "Hello World"), but certainly cannot get any complex output or something from IDLE. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks! ~Jason Jason Varnado Associate Director Disability Resources Gonzaga University 502 E. 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Al Puzzuoli Information Technologist Michigan State University, Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, 120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033 517-884-1915 http://www.rcpd.msu.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Varnado, Jason Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:57 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] JAWS and PYTHON compliers Good morning all, Does anyone have any experience with getting JAWS to read the compiled output of Python code? We have a VI student in a Python class here and I can get JAWS to read the compiled output when we compile a single line in the command line (e.g. "Hello World"), but certainly cannot get any complex output or something from IDLE. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks! ~Jason Jason Varnado Associate Director Disability Resources Gonzaga University 502 E. 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However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? Take care, Sean Sean Keegan Associate Director, Assistive Technology Office of Accessible Education - Stanford University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: livescribe_error.png Type: image/png Size: 221185 bytes Desc: not available URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 16:50:53 2015 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> Message-ID: I've had the pen record audio but not link to the book. Did you try another book? On Feb 12, 2015 4:45 PM, "Sean Keegan" wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be > recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page > (see attached screenshot). > > The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, > with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. > However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo > Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the > student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, > there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on > the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the > page. > > To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL > movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. > So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of > diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes > taken. > > I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe > notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but > the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master > reset on the pen before loaning it out. > > Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hope that helps Marcie Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Wink Harner > wrote: I've had the pen record audio but not link to the book. Did you try another book? On Feb 12, 2015 4:45 PM, "Sean Keegan" > wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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Please spread the word and please share this information with folks you know who might be interested in applying! https://jobs.smccd.edu/postings/871 Max Hartman, MS, CRC Interim Director Disability Resource Center 650.306.3259 (V) 650.306.3185 (Fax) canadacollege.edu/disabilityresourcecenter imgres -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7389 bytes Desc: not available URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu Feb 12 20:23:50 2015 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:14 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <638A0521-4F7F-4702-96A8-02914026ECC1@kent.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <638A0521-4F7F-4702-96A8-02914026ECC1@kent.edu> Message-ID: <10E33B82-8F10-4B55-BD92-2310252A2BE2@gmail.com> Marcie, That was helpful to many of us. Thanks for the info. Wink Wink Harner foreigntype@gmail.com > On Feb 12, 2015, at 6:16 PM, "Dimac, Marcie" wrote: > > Hey Shaun > > Just had this exact thing last week, the infrared sensor behind the tip of the ink where the pen touches the paper is not recognizing when the pen actually is lifted off the paper causing the lines. I yanked the cartridge and replaced and spun the cartridge around 180 degrees (per their recommendations) and it works fine. However the battery life is kaput and our pens are still under warranty which was shocking. They are sending a new one to us at no cost. Could be worth looking into as well. Hope that helps > > Marcie > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:53 PM, Wink Harner wrote: > >> I've had the pen record audio but not link to the book. Did you try another book? >> >>> On Feb 12, 2015 4:45 PM, "Sean Keegan" wrote: >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). >>> >>> The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. >>> >>> To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. >>> >>> I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. >>> >>> Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? >>> >>> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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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The student is the one reporting "complex output not working" - so I guess this may be a case of me not looking in to it enough and accepting the student's response as accurate. What text editor do you use? Thank you again! Jason Varnado Associate Director DREAM x4034 http://www.gonzaga.edu/dream From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Al Puzzuoli Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:55 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS and PYTHON compliers Are you using the standard Python compiler, or one of the derivatives?? If your program is simply outputting text, then it should read fine if run from the command prompt. I've never had any success with IDLE, and have always used another text editor, and then just run the .py files from the command prompt. What sort of complex output isn't working? Al Puzzuoli Information Technologist Michigan State University, Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, 120 Bessey Hall East Lansing, MI 48824-1033 517-884-1915 http://www.rcpd.msu.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Varnado, Jason Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 2:57 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] JAWS and PYTHON compliers Good morning all, Does anyone have any experience with getting JAWS to read the compiled output of Python code? We have a VI student in a Python class here and I can get JAWS to read the compiled output when we compile a single line in the command line (e.g. "Hello World"), but certainly cannot get any complex output or something from IDLE. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks! ~Jason Jason Varnado Associate Director Disability Resources Gonzaga University 502 E. 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On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be > recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page > (see attached screenshot). > > The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, > with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. > However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo > Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the > student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, > there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on > the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the > page. > > To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL > movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. > So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of > diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes > taken. > > I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe > notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but > the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master > reset on the pen before loaning it out. > > Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? > > 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 > > -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan > wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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 -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES 956-882-7128 * fax 956-882-7861 diana.cardiel@utb.edu Cortez 129 One West University Blvd., Brownsville, Texas 78520 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7107 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From Diana.Cardiel at utb.edu Fri Feb 13 09:40:44 2015 From: Diana.Cardiel at utb.edu (Diana Cardiel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Cyrus!! Ill share what I learn. I just don't get how the homework site is not accessible to a screen reader. There has to be one student in the U.S taking the same course as my student! Come to Texas one day! I'll show you SPI! Hug for you! -D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES diana.cardiel@utb.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cyrus Hamilton Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Diane, While I don't have a solution for you, I was actually getting ready to query the group about a similar issue I am having with MyEconLab. I am trying to find a text reader to read the quizzes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. 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Room RC13 1010 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N. Houston TX 77043 VM/Office: 713.718.5604 FAX: 713.718.5430 Email: normajean.brand@hccs.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cyrus Hamilton Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Diane, While I don't have a solution for you, I was actually getting ready to query the group about a similar issue I am having with MyEconLab. I am trying to find a text reader to read the quizzes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. 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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 Diana Cardiel Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:41 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Cyrus!! Ill share what I learn. I just don't get how the homework site is not accessible to a screen reader. There has to be one student in the U.S taking the same course as my student! Come to Texas one day! I'll show you SPI! Hug for you! -D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES diana.cardiel@utb.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cyrus Hamilton Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Diane, While I don't have a solution for you, I was actually getting ready to query the group about a similar issue I am having with MyEconLab. I am trying to find a text reader to read the quizzes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES 956-882-7128 * fax 956-882-7861 diana.cardiel@utb.edu Cortez 129 One West University Blvd., Brownsville, Texas 78520 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7107 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Fri Feb 13 10:06:40 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> Message-ID: <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> Thanks everyone for the feedback. I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just outside the 1-year warranty. Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... Thanks again, Sean On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" wrote: > Hi Sean, > > I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. > > Cheers, > > Robert Espero > Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) > Disability Services Center > UC Irvine > > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM > To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen > > Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). > > The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. > > To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. > > I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. > > Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 kelli.ryan at wne.edu Fri Feb 13 10:20:06 2015 From: kelli.ryan at wne.edu (Kelli A. Ryan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <4825F8507984624E82B82D1CEBF8491D9E444332@EXMB03.wne.local> Hi Sean, Chances are it IS the camera...but for kicks, did the student 'register' the pen to the current notebook being used? I had a student in the past who have a similar situation where the physical page was blank prior to the lecture, she took notes, and when she synced it to her computer there were notes from a previous course AND her notes from her most recent lecture. I don't even know if it the mystery notes were from one of her courses or not...but either way, we found out that it was two different notebooks that somehow overlapped with the pen because she didn't tap the sticker before using the notebook. Also, it seems this has been happening to other people as well (the camera being damaged) it may be an issue on Livescribes end. Last year our displays stopped working, I contacted Livescribe and they said it was a manufacturing issue that others were experiencing as well and they sent us replacements. Our warranty had been out for about 2 years at that time. You never know? Sincerely, Kelli Ryan Assistant Director and Assistive Technology Specialist Student Disability Services Western New England University Springfield, MA 01119 Phone: (413) 782-1513 Fax: (413) 782 1575 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean Keegan Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 1:07 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Thanks everyone for the feedback. I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just outside the 1-year warranty. Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... Thanks again, Sean On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" > wrote: Hi Sean, I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. Cheers, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan > wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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 foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Feb 13 10:34:53 2015 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> Message-ID: Good luck with the cookies. On Feb 13, 2015 10:08 AM, "Sean Keegan" wrote: > Thanks everyone for the feedback. > > I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating > the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the > camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just > outside the 1-year warranty. > > Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... > > Thanks again, > Sean > > > On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the > camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of > refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell > within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. > > Cheers, > > Robert Espero > Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) > Disability Services Center > UC Irvine > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Doug Hayman > *Sent:* Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen > > Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the > paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with > the proprietary paper? > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be > recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page > (see attached screenshot). > > The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, > with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. > However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo > Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the > student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, > there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on > the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the > page. > > To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL > movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. > So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of > diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes > taken. > > I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe > notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but > the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master > reset on the pen before loaning it out. > > Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? > > 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 > > > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 ch286 at cornell.edu Fri Feb 13 13:47:06 2015 From: ch286 at cornell.edu (Cyrus Hamilton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites In-Reply-To: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA84D4C91C27@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> References: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA84D4C91C27@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> Message-ID: Hi Robert, Were they able to use Read and Write for the quiz portion? Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 12:51 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites I do know that in the My Reading Lab portion of Pearson's product, my students have used Read&Write's Screen Shot Reader tool to access the reading sections. That seemed to work well for them. 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 Diana Cardiel Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:41 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Cyrus!! Ill share what I learn. I just don't get how the homework site is not accessible to a screen reader. There has to be one student in the U.S taking the same course as my student! Come to Texas one day! I'll show you SPI! Hug for you! -D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES diana.cardiel@utb.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cyrus Hamilton Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Diane, While I don't have a solution for you, I was actually getting ready to query the group about a similar issue I am having with MyEconLab. I am trying to find a text reader to read the quizzes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES 956-882-7128 * fax 956-882-7861 diana.cardiel@utb.edu Cortez 129 One West University Blvd., Brownsville, Texas 78520 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7107 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From sherylb at uw.edu Fri Feb 13 14:06:03 2015 From: sherylb at uw.edu (Sheryl E. Burgstahler) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (NYTimes Feb12 2015) In-Reply-To: <9BC469A1DD6B2542ABE8B71F7829541D23262F92@oit-ex2010-mb2> References: <9BC469A1DD6B2542ABE8B71F7829541D23262F92@oit-ex2010-mb2> Message-ID: Amazing that an administrator today can say with a straight face, "Harvard expected the Justice Department to propose rules this year 'to provide much-needed guidance in this area,' and that the university would follow whatever rules were adopted.? Does anyone really need to have a new rule from the federal government to reiterate what the ADA means and conclude that captions make your content accessible to individuals who are deaf and therefore should be provided? Sheryl ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Rob Eveleigh wrote: > Hi All, > > Article link: > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over-failing-to-caption-online-courses.html > > The article also includes references to the 2010 DCL and the recent Youngstown and Cincinnati agreements. > > Best, > Rob > > Robert H. Eveleigh > IT Accessibility > Information Technology > Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise A125 > University of Massachusetts Amherst > 740 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9306 > 413-545-1613 | eveleigh@umass.edu > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From susan.gjolmesli at bellevuecollege.edu Fri Feb 13 14:13:41 2015 From: susan.gjolmesli at bellevuecollege.edu (Susan Gjolmesli) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (NYTimes Feb12 2015) In-Reply-To: References: <9BC469A1DD6B2542ABE8B71F7829541D23262F92@oit-ex2010-mb2> Message-ID: Here, here, Sheryl. As I read that I could not help but shake my head. I had a Deaf student enroll in a on line class last academic year in which there were over 20 videos which were uncaptioned. The instructor was not about to take responsibility for that. I was befuddled...huh? The law was promulgated in 1992.... Do faculty actually think they won't ever have Deaf students in their classes? Do administrators think the DOJ may change the law? Hardly - case law the past two years has been extremely clear. Susan Gjolmesli, Director Disability Resource Center, B132 Phone: (425) 564-2498 http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc/ This email and any files transmitted may contain confidential information as protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 USC ? 1232g and/or Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ? 2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution is prohibited. Furthermore, if you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by telephone or return e-mail and completely delete this message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sheryl E. Burgstahler Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 2:06 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (NYTimes Feb12 2015) Amazing that an administrator today can say with a straight face, "Harvard expected the Justice Department to propose rules this year 'to provide much-needed guidance in this area,' and that the university would follow whatever rules were adopted." Does anyone really need to have a new rule from the federal government to reiterate what the ADA means and conclude that captions make your content accessible to individuals who are deaf and therefore should be provided? Sheryl ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Rob Eveleigh wrote: > Hi All, > > Article link: > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over- > failing-to-caption-online-courses.html > > The article also includes references to the 2010 DCL and the recent Youngstown and Cincinnati agreements. > > Best, > Rob > > Robert H. Eveleigh > IT Accessibility > Information Technology > Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise A125 University of > Massachusetts Amherst > 740 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9306 > 413-545-1613 | eveleigh@umass.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 rsthompson2 at ua.edu Fri Feb 13 15:25:45 2015 From: rsthompson2 at ua.edu (Thompson, Rachel) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Fwd: 508 Refresh to be published References: Message-ID: <0B10FE43-D321-4E59-93D7-2F3970116713@ua.edu> FYI Dr. Rachel S. Thompson Director, Emerging Technology Center for Instructional Technology University of Alabama Begin forwarded message: From: Phill Jenkins > Date: February 13, 2015 at 16:34:26 CST To: WAI IG > Subject: 508 Refresh to be published Did you see the official announcement regarding the 508 Refresh? ____________________________________________ Regards, Phill Jenkins, Senior Engineer & Business Development Executive IBM Accessibility http://www.ibm.com/able http://www.facebook.com/IBMAccessibility http://twitter.com/IBMAccess http://www.linkedin.com/in/philljenkins ____________________________________________ I have good news to share with you about the update of the Access Board?s Section 508 standards and Section 255 guidelines. Yesterday, the Office of Management and Budget cleared our notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); it will now be sent to the Federal Register for publication. We will make the NPRM and supporting documents available on our website (http://www.access-board.gov) on Wednesday, February 18. It should be published in the Federal Register shortly after that. We will provide a 90 day public comment period and will hold two public hearings on March 5 and March 11. Here are the details for the public hearings: March 5, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (PT) Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel One Market Place Mission Beach A & B (3rd floor) San Diego, CA 92101 Note: This hearing will be held in conjunction with the CSUN Conference but persons wishing only to testify need not register for the conference. March 11, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (ET) U.S. Access Board Conference Room 1331 F Street, NW Suite 800 Washington, DC 20004 Witnesses can testify in person at the hearing in San Diego. Witnesses can testify in person or by telephone at the hearing in Washington, DC. Copies of the rule will not be available at the hearings. Call-in information and a communication access real-time translation (CART) web streaming link for the Washington, DC hearing will be posted before the hearing at http://www.access-board.gov/ictrefresh. For information on pre-registering to testify, please contact Kathy Johnson at (202) 272?0041, (202) 272?0082 (TTY), or johnson@access-board.gov. If you have questions about the rule once it is made public, please contact Tim Creagan at (202) 272-0016, (202) 272-0074 (TTY), or 508@access-board.gov. P.S. We will also offer a free webinar about the proposed rule on Tuesday, March 31 from 1:00 pm - 2:30pm (ET); you can sign up for the webinar at http://www.adaconferences.org/CIOC/ David M. Capozzi Executive Director U.S. Access Board 1331 F Street, NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20004-1111 202-272-0010 (direct dial) 202-272-0054 (IP TTY) 202-480-7149 (mobile) capozzi@access-board.gov (e-mail) www.access-board.gov (web site) Visit our website and sign up for one of our free webinars. ____________________________________________ From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Feb 13 15:48:09 2015 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites In-Reply-To: References: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA84D4C91C27@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL>, Message-ID: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA84D4C91D98@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> As far as I know. When I showed them the Screen Shot Reader on the reading portion, I didn't hear anything else about having issues. So, I'm guessing they managed it just fine. ________________________________________ From: athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Cyrus Hamilton [ch286@cornell.edu] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 3:47 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Robert, Were they able to use Read and Write for the quiz portion? Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 12:51 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites I do know that in the My Reading Lab portion of Pearson?s product, my students have used Read&Write?s Screen Shot Reader tool to access the reading sections. That seemed to work well for them. 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 Diana Cardiel Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:41 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Cyrus!! Ill share what I learn. I just don?t get how the homework site is not accessible to a screen reader. There has to be one student in the U.S taking the same course as my student! Come to Texas one day! I?ll show you SPI! Hug for you! -D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES diana.cardiel@utb.edu From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Cyrus Hamilton Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 11:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hi Diane, While I don?t have a solution for you, I was actually getting ready to query the group about a similar issue I am having with MyEconLab. I am trying to find a text reader to read the quizzes. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! -Cyrus Cyrus Hamilton Cornell University Student Disability Services www.sds.cornell.edu Tel. 607 254-4545 Fax 607 255-1562 Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00AM-4:30PM Friday 8:00AM-4:00PM From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Diana Cardiel Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 5:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage and Pearson Student Sites Hello, I am seeking collective wisdom regarding Cengage and Pearson student homework sites. The issues are the following on Cengage my student is able to listen to the eBook on the website . When it comes to using a text to speech reader on the homework site she is unable to listen to it (uses natural reader). On the Pearson site she is having the same issue with the homework; is unable to listen to it. Please give me guidance as to who to help my student. Sincerely, D. Cardiel [cid:image001.png@01CE4BFE.A32F3740] DIANA L. CARDIEL LEARNING INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST, DISABILITY SERVICES 956-882-7128 ? fax 956-882-7861 diana.cardiel@utb.edu Cortez 129 One West University Blvd., Brownsville, Texas 78520 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 7107 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From info at karlencommunications.com Tue Feb 17 07:26:24 2015 From: info at karlencommunications.com (Karlen Communications) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] New Word Accessible Document Design tutorials Message-ID: <000001d04ac6$18738bb0$495aa310$@karlencommunications.com> I've added 3 new tutorial documents to the Karlen Communications website: Adding Accessible Images to Word documents. Tables and Columns (Accessible word Document Design) Text Boxes and Accessibility (Accessible Word Document Design) They are on both the Handouts page and the Office 2013 page and are tagged PDF. 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Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. From: Wink Harner > Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Date: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Good luck with the cookies. On Feb 13, 2015 10:08 AM, "Sean Keegan" > wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback. I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just outside the 1-year warranty. Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... Thanks again, Sean On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" > wrote: Hi Sean, I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. Cheers, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan > wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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 mdimac at kent.edu Wed Feb 18 06:14:39 2015 From: mdimac at kent.edu (Dimac, Marcie) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft Message-ID: Morning y'all! It was -7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little background: We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it to use. I'd like to get some information on how other Universities are implementing DocSoft campus-wide. I attended ATHEN and got some great info there - but am also looking if anyone can share the following info: * Who "handles" this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) * Who is editing the transcripts? * Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be willing to share? * Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) * Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to get some traction on this initiative! Thanks, stay warm!!!! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. 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The people in the know probably know better-- or we hope so, anyway. -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Gjolmesli Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 5:14 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (NYTimes Feb12 2015) Here, here, Sheryl. As I read that I could not help but shake my head. I had a Deaf student enroll in a on line class last academic year in which there were over 20 videos which were uncaptioned. The instructor was not about to take responsibility for that. I was befuddled...huh? The law was promulgated in 1992.... Do faculty actually think they won't ever have Deaf students in their classes? Do administrators think the DOJ may change the law? Hardly - case law the past two years has been extremely clear. Susan Gjolmesli, Director Disability Resource Center, B132 Phone: (425) 564-2498 http://www.bellevuecollege.edu/drc/ This email and any files transmitted may contain confidential information as protected by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 USC ? 1232g and/or Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. ? 2510-2521. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution is prohibited. Furthermore, if you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by telephone or return e-mail and completely delete this message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sheryl E. Burgstahler Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 2:06 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses (NYTimes Feb12 2015) Amazing that an administrator today can say with a straight face, "Harvard expected the Justice Department to propose rules this year 'to provide much-needed guidance in this area,' and that the university would follow whatever rules were adopted." Does anyone really need to have a new rule from the federal government to reiterate what the ADA means and conclude that captions make your content accessible to individuals who are deaf and therefore should be provided? Sheryl ------------------------------------------------------------ Sheryl Burgstahler, Ph.D. Director, UW Accessible Technology & DO-IT, UW-IT Affiliate Professor, Education University of Washington, Box 354842 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-0622 FAX 206-221-4171 http://staff.washington.edu/sherylb sherylb@uw.edu On Feb 12, 2015, at 8:06 AM, Rob Eveleigh wrote: > Hi All, > > Article link: > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over- > failing-to-caption-online-courses.html > > The article also includes references to the 2010 DCL and the recent Youngstown and Cincinnati agreements. > > Best, > Rob > > Robert H. Eveleigh > IT Accessibility > Information Technology > Lederle Graduate Research Center Lowrise A125 University of > Massachusetts Amherst > 740 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9306 > 413-545-1613 | eveleigh@umass.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 hunziker at email.arizona.edu Wed Feb 18 07:03:27 2015 From: hunziker at email.arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> Hi all, Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. So, please reply to the list - thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie > wrote: Morning y?all! It was ?7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little background: We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it to use. I?d like to get some information on how other Universities are implementing DocSoft campus-wide. I attended ATHEN and got some great info there ? but am also looking if anyone can share the following info: * Who ?handles? this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) * Who is editing the transcripts? * Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be willing to share? * Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) * Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to get some traction on this initiative! Thanks, stay warm!!!! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. 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URL: From lnorwich at bu.edu Wed Feb 18 07:05:03 2015 From: lnorwich at bu.edu (Norwich, Lorraine S) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882EBA73F0C2@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> Marcia, Did you send it to a specific person in the company who helped you? I am looking for the name of someone reliable at livescribe. We put in an order and they keep on keeping us waiting with putting the order through. Any contacts would be helpful. Thanks Lorraine Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS Assistant Director of Disability Services Boston University 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd Floor Boston, MA 02215 lnorwich@bu.edu (email) 617-353-3658 (vox) 617-353-9646 (fax) www.bu.edu/disability (website) From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:35 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Hi all, Just a head's up on this, I submitted the warranty info on Jan 28th and the pen arrived yesterday - not bad, in my opinion! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. From: Wink Harner > Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Date: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Good luck with the cookies. On Feb 13, 2015 10:08 AM, "Sean Keegan" > wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback. I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just outside the 1-year warranty. Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... Thanks again, Sean On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" > wrote: Hi Sean, I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. Cheers, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan > wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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URL: From greg_kraus at ncsu.edu Wed Feb 18 07:14:02 2015 From: greg_kraus at ncsu.edu (Greg Kraus) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> References: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: We have Docsoft and have been using them for a couple of years, but only in specific contexts. Docsoft does not do a good job of converting speech to text. You can set up user profiles and train those profiles, but at the end of the day the translation will be substandard and generally unacceptable for use. Docsoft does do a good job of synchronizing an existing transcript with a video, so if you can provide an accurate transcript, it can give you back a caption file with the time stamps in there. Another issue to consider is how much will you spend on the maintenance costs for DocSoft versus how much would you spend if you outsourced the synchronization part of caption creation. Syncing captions costs roughly $1.00/minute. If you don't send enough work through DocSoft to make the synchronization a cost savings, is it worth keeping the maintenance agreement? Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 gdkraus@ncsu.edu http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) wrote: > Hi all, > > Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. So, > please reply to the list - thanks! > > Dawn > > ~~ > Dawn Hunziker > > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie wrote: > > Morning y?all! > > It was ?7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. > > I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using > DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little > background: > > We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it > to use. I?d like to get some information on how other Universities are > implementing DocSoft campus-wide. > > I attended ATHEN and got some great info there ? but am also looking if > anyone can share the following info: > > Who ?handles? this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office > manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) > Who is editing the transcripts? > Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be > willing to share? > Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. > Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) > Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to > get some traction on this initiative! > > > Thanks, stay warm!!!! > > > Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. > > Coordinator, Assistive Technology > Student Accessibility Services > Kent State University > Ground Floor, Rm. 23 > DeWeese Center > P.O. Box 5190 > Kent, Ohio 44242 > > Phone: 330-672-3391 > Fax: 330-672-3763 > Email: mdimac@kent.edu > > www.kent.edu/sas > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may > contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or > entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do > not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this > transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete > it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender > of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed Feb 18 07:17:55 2015 From: Teresa.Haven at nau.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> References: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FDB2659E@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> Greetings, all. Northern Arizona University is using DocSoft, and Jamie Axelrod, Director of Disability Resources, has said he'd be happy to talk with anyone about it, although it's pretty dense and detailed to write up. His email is Jamie.axelrod@nau.edu; please contact him directly if you would like to arrange a conversation. Best, Teresa Teresa Haven, Ph.D. Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University Co-Chair, AHEAD Standing Committee on Technology Vice President, ATHEN From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:03 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] DocSoft Hi all, Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. So, please reply to the list - thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie > wrote: Morning y'all! It was -7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little background: We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it to use. I'd like to get some information on how other Universities are implementing DocSoft campus-wide. I attended ATHEN and got some great info there - but am also looking if anyone can share the following info: * Who "handles" this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) * Who is editing the transcripts? * Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be willing to share? * Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) * Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to get some traction on this initiative! Thanks, stay warm!!!! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. _______________________________________________ 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 david_bevivino at fitnyc.edu Wed Feb 18 07:44:11 2015 From: david_bevivino at fitnyc.edu (David Bevivino) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:15 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882EBA73F0C2@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882EBA73F0C2@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> Message-ID: I work with Suzy Schuman at livescribe, and she's been great. D.J. Bevivino Counselor Associate Office of Disability Services, FIT-ABLE A570 (5th Floor Bridge between A-B Buildings) 212.217.4098 On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Norwich, Lorraine S wrote: > Marcia, > > > > Did you send it to a specific person in the company who helped you? I am > looking for the name of someone reliable at livescribe. We put in an order > and they keep on keeping us waiting with putting the order through. Any > contacts would be helpful. > > > > Thanks > > > > Lorraine > > > > Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS > > Assistant Director of Disability Services > > Boston University > > 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd Floor > > Boston, MA 02215 > > lnorwich@bu.edu (email) > > 617-353-3658 (vox) > > 617-353-9646 (fax) > > www.bu.edu/disability (website) > > > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Dimac, Marcie > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:35 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen > > > > Hi all, > > > > Just a head?s up on this, I submitted the warranty info on Jan 28th and > the pen arrived yesterday ? not bad, in my opinion! > > > > > > Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. > > > > Coordinator, Assistive Technology > > Student Accessibility Services > > Kent State University > > Ground Floor, Rm. 23 > > DeWeese Center > > P.O. Box 5190 > > Kent, Ohio 44242 > > > > Phone: 330-672-3391 > > Fax: 330-672-3763 > > Email: mdimac@kent.edu > > > > www.kent.edu/sas > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may > contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or > entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do > not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this > transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete > it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender > of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. > > > > > > *From: *Wink Harner > *Reply-To: *Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Date: *Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:34 PM > *To: *Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject: *Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen > > > > Good luck with the cookies. > > On Feb 13, 2015 10:08 AM, "Sean Keegan" wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the feedback. > > > > I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating > the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the > camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just > outside the 1-year warranty. > > > > Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... > > > > Thanks again, > > Sean > > > > > > On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" wrote: > > > > Hi Sean, > > > > I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the > camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of > refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell > within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Robert Espero > Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) > Disability Services Center > UC Irvine > > > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] *On > Behalf Of *Doug Hayman > *Sent:* Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen > > > > Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the > paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with > the proprietary paper? > > > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be > recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page > (see attached screenshot). > > > > The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, > with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. > However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo > Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the > student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, > there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on > the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the > page. > > > > To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL > movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. > So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of > diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes > taken. > > > > I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe > notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but > the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master > reset on the pen before loaning it out. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? > > > > 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 > > > > > -- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gdkraus at ncsu.edu Wed Feb 18 08:05:25 2015 From: gdkraus at ncsu.edu (Greg Kraus) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: WebAssign info needed In-Reply-To: References: <08c201d040d7$a811ceb0$f8356c10$@gmail.com> <099b01d040da$ec5954f0$c50bfed0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Here is what I know about WebAssign and accessibility. 1. In the past they have had a different interface for screen reader users, but this interface has to be requested through a help call. (Yeah, I know. I'm just reporting the facts here.) They basically have to rebuild the course using an older, more accessible interface. It is a lot of work on their part, but they have seemed willing to do it in the past. Note, this workflow might have changed - see #3. 2. In some of their question banks they have an accessibility flag set so instructors can only choose from questions that are accessible. 3. The company has had a complete change of management within the past 18 months, so things that may have been true in the past may not be true any more. 4. I have met with them a couple of times, both before and after the management change, to discuss how to make modern Web applications accessible. (They are located on our campus but they have not been affiliated with the university for a long time.) They have seemed very receptive to suggestions but I do not know if those suggested changes have made their way into their latest products. 5. As part of their management change they actually restructured themselves corporately so one of their guiding principals is to work for the benefit of the community, not just to make profit. It's called a 'Benefit Corporation'. So when I say they were receptive in #4, I genuinely feel they wanted to do the right thing. I just don't know if they have fully executed it yet. 6. Of course then you have the usual problems inherent to some STEM content and accessibility. They are aware of these problems but I don't know how they have decided to handle it. 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 Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Dan Comden wrote: > Wink, can they give you example content so you can verify? > > I know it's not what you asked for, however this might be useful as a flag > for others communicating with vendors. > My opinion: a vendor that claims screen reader accessibility without > mentioning anything else (like WCAG 2.0) has at best an incomplete grasp of > accessible design... > > Just my experience but it's been pretty consistent over the last few years. > It's definitely a sign for me that a closer look will be required. > > -*- Dan > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Wink Harner wrote: >> >> Clarifying: WebAssign website ?claims? screen reader accessibility in >> their online books. I need to know if any of you have hands-on experience >> with this site and know how much, if any accessibility there is with screen >> readers, and more specifically if any of you have tested it for >> accessibility recently. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> >> >> Wink Harner >> >> winkharner1113@gmail.com >> >> foreigntype@gmail.com >> >> >> >> (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please >> forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Wink Harner [mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:07 PM >> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network >> Subject: WebAssign info needed >> >> >> >> Hi All ATHEN-ites, >> >> >> >> Do any of you know/have any direct knowledge of whether WebAssign is >> screen reader compatible with JAWS or NVDA? We have a blind student >> potentially coming on board for spring term and while their website *claims* >> accessibility, I wanted to know from a more hands-on source whether in fact >> it is. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Wink Harner >> >> winkharner1113@gmail.com >> >> foreigntype@gmail.com >> >> >> >> (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please >> forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> athen-list mailing list >> athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu >> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list >> > > > > -- > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > From foreigntype at gmail.com Wed Feb 18 08:14:28 2015 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (Wink Harner) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: WebAssign info needed In-Reply-To: References: <08c201d040d7$a811ceb0$f8356c10$@gmail.com> <099b01d040da$ec5954f0$c50bfed0$@gmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks, Greg. This info is helpful. I'll pass it along & keep you posted. Wink On Feb 18, 2015 8:06 AM, "Greg Kraus" wrote: > Here is what I know about WebAssign and accessibility. > > 1. In the past they have had a different interface for screen reader > users, but this interface has to be requested through a help call. > (Yeah, I know. I'm just reporting the facts here.) They basically have > to rebuild the course using an older, more accessible interface. It is > a lot of work on their part, but they have seemed willing to do it in > the past. Note, this workflow might have changed - see #3. > > 2. In some of their question banks they have an accessibility flag set > so instructors can only choose from questions that are accessible. > > 3. The company has had a complete change of management within the past > 18 months, so things that may have been true in the past may not be > true any more. > > 4. I have met with them a couple of times, both before and after the > management change, to discuss how to make modern Web applications > accessible. (They are located on our campus but they have not been > affiliated with the university for a long time.) They have seemed very > receptive to suggestions but I do not know if those suggested changes > have made their way into their latest products. > > 5. As part of their management change they actually restructured > themselves corporately so one of their guiding principals is to work > for the benefit of the community, not just to make profit. It's called > a 'Benefit Corporation'. So when I say they were receptive in #4, I > genuinely feel they wanted to do the right thing. I just don't know if > they have fully executed it yet. > > 6. Of course then you have the usual problems inherent to some STEM > content and accessibility. They are aware of these problems but I > don't know how they have decided to handle it. > > 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 Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Dan Comden wrote: > > Wink, can they give you example content so you can verify? > > > > I know it's not what you asked for, however this might be useful as a > flag > > for others communicating with vendors. > > My opinion: a vendor that claims screen reader accessibility without > > mentioning anything else (like WCAG 2.0) has at best an incomplete grasp > of > > accessible design... > > > > Just my experience but it's been pretty consistent over the last few > years. > > It's definitely a sign for me that a closer look will be required. > > > > -*- Dan > > > > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Wink Harner > wrote: > >> > >> Clarifying: WebAssign website ?claims? screen reader accessibility in > >> their online books. I need to know if any of you have hands-on > experience > >> with this site and know how much, if any accessibility there is with > screen > >> readers, and more specifically if any of you have tested it for > >> accessibility recently. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Wink Harner > >> > >> winkharner1113@gmail.com > >> > >> foreigntype@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > Please > >> forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Wink Harner [mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 4:07 PM > >> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > >> Subject: WebAssign info needed > >> > >> > >> > >> Hi All ATHEN-ites, > >> > >> > >> > >> Do any of you know/have any direct knowledge of whether WebAssign is > >> screen reader compatible with JAWS or NVDA? We have a blind student > >> potentially coming on board for spring term and while their website > *claims* > >> accessibility, I wanted to know from a more hands-on source whether in > fact > >> it is. > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks in advance. > >> > >> Wink Harner > >> > >> winkharner1113@gmail.com > >> > >> foreigntype@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> > >> (Disclaimer: this email was dictated with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. > Please > >> forgive any quirks, mis-recognitions, or omissions.) > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> athen-list mailing list > >> athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu > >> http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu > > Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ > > University of Washington UW Information Technology > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > athen-list mailing list > > athen-list@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 roberte at uci.edu Wed Feb 18 09:20:23 2015 From: roberte at uci.edu (Robert Espero) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen In-Reply-To: References: <011FAD09-B9C2-4D90-AC16-BDBB0D396737@stanford.edu> <00a301d047af$63075c20$29161460$@uci.edu> <3BFC3962-5B47-42B0-81C3-BF80506AEBDF@stanford.edu> <9CD7975AD546754DBA3B21EC09D0882EBA73F0C2@IST-EX10MBX-4.ad.bu.edu> Message-ID: <064101d04b9f$2e5f1190$8b1d34b0$@uci.edu> I can vouch for her also. Funny thing is I?m in conversation right now about ordering more pens and supplies :). Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of David Bevivino Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:44 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen I work with Suzy Schuman at livescribe, and she's been great. D.J. Bevivino Counselor Associate Office of Disability Services, FIT-ABLE A570 (5th Floor Bridge between A-B Buildings) 212.217.4098 On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Norwich, Lorraine S > wrote: Marcia, Did you send it to a specific person in the company who helped you? I am looking for the name of someone reliable at livescribe. We put in an order and they keep on keeping us waiting with putting the order through. Any contacts would be helpful. Thanks Lorraine Lorraine S. Norwich, BSME, MSIS Assistant Director of Disability Services Boston University 19 Deerfield Street, 2nd Floor Boston, MA 02215 lnorwich@bu.edu (email) 617-353-3658 (vox) 617-353-9646 (fax) www.bu.edu/disability (website) From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu ] On Behalf Of Dimac, Marcie Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 1:35 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Hi all, Just a head?s up on this, I submitted the warranty info on Jan 28th and the pen arrived yesterday ? not bad, in my opinion! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. From: Wink Harner > Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Date: Friday, February 13, 2015 at 1:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Good luck with the cookies. On Feb 13, 2015 10:08 AM, "Sean Keegan" > wrote: Thanks everyone for the feedback. I tried Marcie's suggestion and that did not seem to work (i.e., rotating the ink cartridge), so it is likely what Robert identified in that the camera is dead. Will try to see if I can get a replacement, but we are just outside the 1-year warranty. Maybe if I bake them cookies, they will be nice to me... Thanks again, Sean On Feb 13, 2015, at 9:06 AM, "Robert Espero" > wrote: Hi Sean, I had this happen to a few of our pens. From what Tech Support said the camera malfunctioned (and we had a few of these instances in the batch of refurbished pens my campus purchased). Fortunately, all the pens fell within the 1-year warranty and were all replaced at no cost. Cheers, Robert Espero Assistant Director, Accessible Resources & Technology (ART) Disability Services Center UC Irvine From: athen-list [mailto:athen- list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Hayman Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Error with Livescribe Pen Just a guess but would it be that the user keeps the pen low enough to the paper, when not writing that it the laser part is still registering with the proprietary paper? On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Sean Keegan < skeegan@stanford.edu> wrote: Hello all, I have a student using a Livescribe pen in which the pen appears to be recording all handwriting even when the student is not writing on the page (see attached screenshot). The notes the student has recorded in the physical notebook look correct, with legible spacing and notes. The audio appears to be recorded as well. However, when the student then imports this recording into the Echo Desktop, the page is a mass of green scribbles that appear as if the student has written over the top of her notes repeatedly. Additionally, there are lines drawn diagonally from the end of the notes on one line (on the right side of the page) to the next line below on the left side of the page. To me, it appears that the camera is malfunctioning and recording ALL movements of the pen even when the pen is not in contact with the paper. So, as the student takes notes from left to right, you get a lot of diagonal lines stretching across the page and obscuring the actual notes taken. I thought initially that the student may have used two Livescribe notebooks with the same number and color (e.g., two gray notebook #6), but the student is only using one notebook at this time and I did a master reset on the pen before loaning it out. Has anyone else experienced this before with these pens? 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In-Reply-To: <1915076255E0774CAF7BDB6AE550CF601530C78C@itsnt436.iowa.uiowa.edu> References: <1915076255E0774CAF7BDB6AE550CF601530C78C@itsnt436.iowa.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: Collaborate uses Java, so presumably the user has a new enough version of Java to have the Java Access Bridge installed automatically. Once inside of Collaborate it is fairly accessible. Here are the keyboard shortcuts for using Collaborate. https://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/Building_Blocks/Blackboard_Collaborate/Instructor/50_Keyboard_Navigation_Blackboard_Collaborate Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 gdkraus@ncsu.edu http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Weissenberger, Todd M wrote: > Does anyone have good insight on how well Blackboard Collaborate works with > JAWS? We have a program that uses Collaborate, and a JAWS user who will be > participating. > > > > Thanks, > > Todd > > > > T.M. Weissenberger > > Web Accessibility Coordinator > > Information Technology Services > > University of Iowa > > > > 319-384-3323 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed Feb 18 13:18:54 2015 From: Teresa.Haven at nau.edu (Teresa Haven) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Blackboard Collaborate and JAWS? In-Reply-To: <1915076255E0774CAF7BDB6AE550CF601530C78C@itsnt436.iowa.uiowa.edu> References: <1915076255E0774CAF7BDB6AE550CF601530C78C@itsnt436.iowa.uiowa.edu> Message-ID: <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FDB26D10@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> Hi, Todd. I had to research this a few months ago, and it's not as straightforward as we might hope. A JAWS user can get fairly decent access to Collaborate, BUT the user has to make sure of a few things or the two programs won't play together at all: 1) Find out what bit version of Windows is in use - 32 or 64. 2) Make sure that JAWS is the same bit version as Windows. 3) Make sure that Java is the same bit version as Windows, is up to date, and Java Access Bridge is installed. If all 3 products are running the same bit version, there's a decent chance that the user will be able to at least participate in the Collaborate session, even if he or she doesn't have complete control of the Collaborate environment. If any of the products are a mismatch, JAWS will stop talking when you enter the Collaborate session, so I advise some advance testing. I was finally able to get it to work, but it took me several checks of my product versions and a few reboots before they all started playing together. 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URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Wed Feb 18 13:32:55 2015 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FDB2659E@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> References: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FDB2659E@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> Message-ID: <013f01d04bc2$75e624e0$61b26ea0$@htctu.net> The big thing to remember with DocSoft is that most of the time your transcripts will need editing (if you are using them as an accommodation for a student). As long as you go into the process not expecting 100% recognition 100% of the time, you will be a lot happier. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Teresa Haven Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:18 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Cc: Jamie Axelrod Subject: Re: [Athen] DocSoft Greetings, all. Northern Arizona University is using DocSoft, and Jamie Axelrod, Director of Disability Resources, has said he'd be happy to talk with anyone about it, although it's pretty dense and detailed to write up. His email is Jamie.axelrod@nau.edu; please contact him directly if you would like to arrange a conversation. Best, Teresa Teresa Haven, Ph.D. Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University Co-Chair, AHEAD Standing Committee on Technology Vice President, ATHEN From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:03 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] DocSoft Hi all, Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. So, please reply to the list - thanks! Dawn ~~ Dawn Hunziker On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie wrote: Morning y'all! It was -7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little background: We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it to use. I'd like to get some information on how other Universities are implementing DocSoft campus-wide. I attended ATHEN and got some great info there - but am also looking if anyone can share the following info: * Who "handles" this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) * Who is editing the transcripts? * Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be willing to share? * Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) * Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to get some traction on this initiative! Thanks, stay warm!!!! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. 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URL: From ronrstewart at gmail.com Wed Feb 18 13:56:26 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: <013f01d04bc2$75e624e0$61b26ea0$@htctu.net> References: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> <8B17405CDE724049BFD78BFBC560F1FDB2659E@umbrella.nau.froot.nau.edu> <013f01d04bc2$75e624e0$61b26ea0$@htctu.net> Message-ID: This is one of the foundational issues with captions or subtitles, which as an HOH person I need in many instructional situations. The need to be at ~95% accurate to be of pedagogical quality. I have looked at most of the "automated" systems after developing one of the first university based captioning program in the IHE space. None are up to snuff, so the primary issue are. 1. What is your volume? To make most of these systems pay for themselves you need to be doing in excess of 200 hours per year. 2. How much of this content will be used more than once? We found at Oregon State that less than 10% of our video archive was being used more than once a year. Of these materials the where being used repeatedly. You need to prioritize the legacy content and make sure it is going to actually be used. 3. Where is the funding going to come from? Post production captioning costs on the average $2 per minute. Real time captioning can be as high as $10 per minute for STEM content. 4. Who is responsible? This is actually not an appropriate role for DS. It is once again a role of the curriculum and instruction folks. Case in point I was unable to use the DS based funding for captioning I needed as a staff member. There are more but just food for thought in this conversation. Ron Stewart On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Gaeir Dietrich wrote: > The big thing to remember with DocSoft is that most of the time your > transcripts will need editing (if you are using them as an accommodation > for a student). As long as you go into the process not expecting 100% > recognition 100% of the time, you will be a lot happier. > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich > HTCTU Director > 408-996-4636 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu > ] > *On Behalf Of *Teresa Haven > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:18 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Cc:* Jamie Axelrod > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] DocSoft > > > > Greetings, all. Northern Arizona University is using DocSoft, and Jamie > Axelrod, Director of Disability Resources, has said he?d be happy to talk > with anyone about it, although it?s pretty dense and detailed to write up. > His email is Jamie.axelrod@nau.edu > ; please contact > him directly if you would like to arrange a conversation. > > Best, > > Teresa > > > > Teresa Haven, Ph.D. > > Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University > > Co-Chair, AHEAD Standing Committee on Technology > > Vice President, ATHEN > > > > > > *From:* athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu > ] > *On Behalf Of *Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 18, 2015 8:03 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] DocSoft > > > > Hi all, > > > > Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. > So, please reply to the list - thanks! > > > > Dawn > > ~~ > > Dawn Hunziker > > > > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie > wrote: > > Morning y?all! > > > > It was ?7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. > > > > I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently > using DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A > little background: > > > > We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put > it to use. I?d like to get some information on how other Universities are > implementing DocSoft campus-wide. > > > > I attended ATHEN and got some great info there ? but am also looking if > anyone can share the following info: > > > > - Who ?handles? this service? (I.e. Does your disability services > office manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) > - Who is editing the transcripts? > - Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you > would be willing to share? > - Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason > (I.e. Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) > - Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we > try to get some traction on this initiative! > > > > Thanks, stay warm!!!! > > > > > > Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. > > > > Coordinator, Assistive Technology > > Student Accessibility Services > > Kent State University > > Ground Floor, Rm. 23 > > DeWeese Center > > P.O. Box 5190 > > Kent, Ohio 44242 > > > > Phone: 330-672-3391 > > Fax: 330-672-3763 > > Email: mdimac@kent.edu > > > > www.kent.edu/sas > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed. 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URL: From vasquez at sbcc.edu Wed Feb 18 14:12:12 2015 From: vasquez at sbcc.edu (Laurie Vasquez) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] U.S. Access Board Proposes Updated ICT Accessibility Requirements Message-ID: *U.S. Access Board Proposes Updated ICT Accessibility Requirements* [image: laptop with collection of ICT, including laptop (Sec. 508 and Sec. 255 on screen), cell phones, tablet, and diskseal] The U.S. Access Board has released for public comment aproposed rule updating accessibility requirements for information and communication technology (ICT) in the federal sector covered by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. The rule also would jointly update guidelines for telecommunications equipment subject to Section 255 of the Communications Act. "The Board's proposal is responsive to widespread changes and innovations in the IT and communication industries," states Sachin Dev Pavithran, Vice Chair of the Access Board. "It is important that the 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines stay abreast of the ever-evolving technologies they cover so that accessibility for people with disabilities is properly addressed." The proposed rule updates various requirements to address fundamental shifts and trends in the market, such as the convergence of technologies and the increasingly multi-functional capabilities of products like smart phones. Another key goal of this update is to promote consistency with other requirements in the U.S. and abroad in order to improve accessibility and to facilitate compliance. A leading reference, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), is incorporated into the rule and applied to web-based content as well as to offline documents and software. The Board is proposing other revisions that will harmonize the rule with voluntary consensus standards, including those issued by other countries and international bodies such as the European Commission due to the global nature of the ICT market. The proposed rule specifies the technologies covered and contains performance-based criteria as well as technical requirements for hardware, software, and support documentation and services. Access is addressed for all types of disabilities, including those pertaining to vision, hearing, color perception, speech, manual dexterity, reach, and strength. The proposed rule is based on recommendations from the Board's Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) which comprised a broad cross-section of stakeholders representing industry, disability groups, government agencies, and other countries. It also incorporates public feedback the Board received through the release of two advance drafts of the rule. "The significant input the Board has received from stakeholders and interested parties throughout this process is reflected in the proposed rule," notes Pavithran. "Such collective feedback is critical to getting things right in the final rule, and it is no different with the current proposal, which includes a host of questions the Board is posing to the public to gather additional information on various topics." Public comments on the rule, as well as on a preliminary assessment of its estimated costs and benefits, are due in 90 days. The Board also will hold public hearings on the rule in San Diego onMarch 5 and in Washington, DC on March 11. In addition, the Board will conduct a public webinar to review the proposal on March 31. Further information on this rulemaking, including a summary of the rule, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Wed Feb 18 21:45:47 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft In-Reply-To: References: <39A8000E-8E15-41F6-AB79-1722DBE190A3@email.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <972088364.6811439.1424324747728.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> Hi Marcie, Sorry to hear about your negative weather temps - we have been in the mid-70s this week. Of course, being February, this is not necessarily a good thing...(send rain west!) We have used a DocSoft:AV appliance as a backend solution for our captioning platform, but only for synchronizing transcription files. We have a separate server that handles accounts, a web interface, business logic, etc. The idea was to make it simple for people who did not know much about captioning. Users would upload a video, select a transcriber, and hit "Go." A transcription company would then create a text file and upload this back into our captioning platform. At that point, we used the DocSoft:AV appliance to synchronize the text file with the audio content of the video. Overall, I would say this has worked well and the system saw good use. A challenge, though, is that our front-end system now requires a major upgrade to keep pace with new formats and use cases (e.g., YouTube, Vimeo, etc.). Given the price points of external captioning vendors, it doesn't make much sense for us to keep the system in its current incarnation. When we first started, a 1 or 2 business day turnaround was anywhere from $3-$5 per minute; prices are much cheaper now. Additionally, many users now find YouTube to be a preferred platform to distribute video content. I am in the process of revising how we are using the system and I think we may move to a model that Greg outlined in which users can upload audio and obtain back a transcript file for further editing (particularly if a profile has been trained). At this time, we also provide the option for users to upload an accurate transcript and video to obtain back a synchronized text file and we want to continue this solution. That said, I have to evaluate if there is sufficient volume to justify the full cost compared to using external vendors. To answer your questions more directly: > Who ?handles? this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office > manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) We managed the service internally as this was a project using gift funds. However, the system was designed to run independently and users were billed directly by the transcription vendors, so I (mainly) just made sure the servers were running and resolved any complaints due to turnaround delays. > Who is editing the transcripts? We did not rely on the transcripts produced by the DocSoft:AV appliance. We used external vendors to create transcripts. The DocSoft:AV system was used for synchronization purposes. For transcripts produced by the DocSoft:AV system, the users fixed those. > Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. > Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) My opinion is that for content that is over 30 minutes and/or needed immediately, then it may be better to outsource. That said, it also depends on the speaker's speech profile (e.g., has a thick accent, talks too fast, does not enunciate, etc.), if a speaker profile was created, the original audio quality (i.e., was it recorded with a lapel microphone), and so on. My opinion - I do think there can be a model for the appliance to support a captioning program. However, that does require some centralization of captioning within the campus and, I believe, that depends on your institutional culture. Take care, Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kraus" To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:14:02 AM Subject: Re: [Athen] DocSoft We have Docsoft and have been using them for a couple of years, but only in specific contexts. Docsoft does not do a good job of converting speech to text. You can set up user profiles and train those profiles, but at the end of the day the translation will be substandard and generally unacceptable for use. Docsoft does do a good job of synchronizing an existing transcript with a video, so if you can provide an accurate transcript, it can give you back a caption file with the time stamps in there. Another issue to consider is how much will you spend on the maintenance costs for DocSoft versus how much would you spend if you outsourced the synchronization part of caption creation. Syncing captions costs roughly $1.00/minute. If you don't send enough work through DocSoft to make the synchronization a cost savings, is it worth keeping the maintenance agreement? Greg -- Greg Kraus University IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University 919.513.4087 gdkraus@ncsu.edu http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) wrote: > Hi all, > > Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. So, > please reply to the list - thanks! > > Dawn > > ~~ > Dawn Hunziker > > > On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie wrote: > > Morning y?all! > > It was ?7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. > > I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently using > DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little > background: > > We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually put it > to use. I?d like to get some information on how other Universities are > implementing DocSoft campus-wide. > > I attended ATHEN and got some great info there ? but am also looking if > anyone can share the following info: > > Who ?handles? this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office > manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) > Who is editing the transcripts? > Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be > willing to share? > Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. > Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) > Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try to > get some traction on this initiative! > > > Thanks, stay warm!!!! > > > Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. > > Coordinator, Assistive Technology > Student Accessibility Services > Kent State University > Ground Floor, Rm. 23 > DeWeese Center > P.O. Box 5190 > Kent, Ohio 44242 > > Phone: 330-672-3391 > Fax: 330-672-3763 > Email: mdimac@kent.edu > > www.kent.edu/sas > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the > individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may > contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or > entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, > please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do > not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this > transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete > it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender > of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. > > _______________________________________________ > 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 theoldog at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 06:37:18 2015 From: theoldog at gmail.com (theoldog@gmail.com) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? Message-ID: We are currently evaluating Robobraille and would appreciate hearing any feedback from anyone using it or Sensusaccess. Thanks in advance for any and all comments! d:) debi.turner@humber.ca Debi Turner Assistive Technician, Disability Services Humber ITAL Student Success & Engagement Room A120, Lakeshore Campus 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8 Tel: (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268 Fax: (416) 252-8800 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mdimac at kent.edu Thu Feb 19 06:44:33 2015 From: mdimac at kent.edu (Dimac, Marcie) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] DocSoft Message-ID: THANK YOU to everyone who responded with such AMAZING information! Today, the high is 2! Is it summer yet? Cheers! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. This e-mail message may contain confidential information intended only for use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please do not read, use, disclose, copy or distribute this message and do not take any action in reliance upon it. If you have received this transmission in error, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. Please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. On 2/19/15, 12:45 AM, "Sean J Keegan" wrote: >Hi Marcie, > >Sorry to hear about your negative weather temps - we have been in the >mid-70s this week. Of course, being February, this is not necessarily a >good thing...(send rain west!) > >We have used a DocSoft:AV appliance as a backend solution for our >captioning platform, but only for synchronizing transcription files. We >have a separate server that handles accounts, a web interface, business >logic, etc. The idea was to make it simple for people who did not know >much about captioning. Users would upload a video, select a transcriber, >and hit "Go." A transcription company would then create a text file and >upload this back into our captioning platform. At that point, we used the >DocSoft:AV appliance to synchronize the text file with the audio content >of the video. > >Overall, I would say this has worked well and the system saw good use. A >challenge, though, is that our front-end system now requires a major >upgrade to keep pace with new formats and use cases (e.g., YouTube, >Vimeo, etc.). Given the price points of external captioning vendors, it >doesn't make much sense for us to keep the system in its current >incarnation. When we first started, a 1 or 2 business day turnaround was >anywhere from $3-$5 per minute; prices are much cheaper now. >Additionally, many users now find YouTube to be a preferred platform to >distribute video content. > >I am in the process of revising how we are using the system and I think >we may move to a model that Greg outlined in which users can upload audio >and obtain back a transcript file for further editing (particularly if a >profile has been trained). At this time, we also provide the option for >users to upload an accurate transcript and video to obtain back a >synchronized text file and we want to continue this solution. That said, >I have to evaluate if there is sufficient volume to justify the full cost >compared to using external vendors. > >To answer your questions more directly: > >> Who "handles" this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office >> manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) >We managed the service internally as this was a project using gift funds. >However, the system was designed to run independently and users were >billed directly by the transcription vendors, so I (mainly) just made >sure the servers were running and resolved any complaints due to >turnaround delays. > > >> Who is editing the transcripts? >We did not rely on the transcripts produced by the DocSoft:AV appliance. >We used external vendors to create transcripts. The DocSoft:AV system was >used for synchronization purposes. For transcripts produced by the >DocSoft:AV system, the users fixed those. > >> Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. >> Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) >My opinion is that for content that is over 30 minutes and/or needed >immediately, then it may be better to outsource. That said, it also >depends on the speaker's speech profile (e.g., has a thick accent, talks >too fast, does not enunciate, etc.), if a speaker profile was created, >the original audio quality (i.e., was it recorded with a lapel >microphone), and so on. > > >My opinion - I do think there can be a model for the appliance to support >a captioning program. However, that does require some centralization of >captioning within the campus and, I believe, that depends on your >institutional culture. > > >Take care, >Sean > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Greg Kraus" >To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" > >Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:14:02 AM >Subject: Re: [Athen] DocSoft > >We have Docsoft and have been using them for a couple of years, but >only in specific contexts. Docsoft does not do a good job of >converting speech to text. You can set up user profiles and train >those profiles, but at the end of the day the translation will be >substandard and generally unacceptable for use. > >Docsoft does do a good job of synchronizing an existing transcript >with a video, so if you can provide an accurate transcript, it can >give you back a caption file with the time stamps in there. > >Another issue to consider is how much will you spend on the >maintenance costs for DocSoft versus how much would you spend if you >outsourced the synchronization part of caption creation. Syncing >captions costs roughly $1.00/minute. If you don't send enough work >through DocSoft to make the synchronization a cost savings, is it >worth keeping the maintenance agreement? > >Greg >-- >Greg Kraus >University IT Accessibility Coordinator >NC State University >919.513.4087 >gdkraus@ncsu.edu >http://go.ncsu.edu/itaccess > >On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Great questions Marcie... We are looking at various solutions as well. >>So, >> please reply to the list - thanks! >> >> Dawn >> >> ~~ >> Dawn Hunziker >> >> >> On Feb 18, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Dimac, Marcie wrote: >> >> Morning y'all! >> >> It was -7 here yesterday, yes that is a negative sign. Brrrr. >> >> I would like to put a feeler out there for all folks who are currently >>using >> DocSoft captioning services for any of their captioning needs. A little >> background: >> >> We own a license to DocSoft (have for years) but have never actually >>put it >> to use. I'd like to get some information on how other Universities are >> implementing DocSoft campus-wide. >> >> I attended ATHEN and got some great info there - but am also looking if >> anyone can share the following info: >> >> Who "handles" this service? (I.e. Does your disability services office >> manage the DocSoft portal, or does IT?) >> Who is editing the transcripts? >> Is there a particular workflow that has worked for you that you would be >> willing to share? >> Is there ever a time when you outsource? If so, what is the reason (I.e. >> Video is 30 minutes or 1 hour) >> Any other information that you think might be helpful for me as we try >>to >> get some traction on this initiative! >> >> >> Thanks, stay warm!!!! >> >> >> Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. >> >> Coordinator, Assistive Technology >> Student Accessibility Services >> Kent State University >> Ground Floor, Rm. 23 >> DeWeese Center >> P.O. Box 5190 >> Kent, Ohio 44242 >> >> Phone: 330-672-3391 >> Fax: 330-672-3763 >> Email: mdimac@kent.edu >> >> www.kent.edu/sas >> >> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the >> individual or entity to which it is addressed. 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Please >>delete >> it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the >>sender >> of the error by reply e-mail or by calling 330-672-3001. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > >_______________________________________________ >athen-list mailing list >athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu >http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From mbohn at bergen.edu Thu Feb 19 06:53:29 2015 From: mbohn at bergen.edu (Maria Bohn) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <74CBF814-7CFB-4972-9F5D-C377610D10EA@bergen.edu> We do not use it but one of my students does for all his Braille books with great success. If you have specific questions about it I can ask him. Have not used sensusaccess Maria Bohn Resource Accommodation Specialist Bergen Community College Sent from my iPhone On Feb 19, 2015, at 9:38 AM, "theoldog@gmail.com" > wrote: We are currently evaluating Robobraille and would appreciate hearing any feedback from anyone using it or Sensusaccess. Thanks in advance for any and all comments! d:) debi.turner@humber.ca Debi Turner Assistive Technician, Disability Services Humber ITAL Student Success & Engagement Room A120, Lakeshore Campus 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8 Tel: (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268 Fax: (416) 252-8800 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From Cindy.Poore-Pariseau at bristolcc.edu Thu Feb 19 07:04:57 2015 From: Cindy.Poore-Pariseau at bristolcc.edu (Poore-Pariseau, Cindy) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Please post "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" ~John Dewey Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Ph. D. Bristol Community College Coordinator of Disability Services Office of Disability Services, L115 ? Email: cindy.poore-pariseau@bristolcc.edu ? Phone: (508) 678-2811 x 2470 ? 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I realize that it can be hard, sometimes, to get campuses to cover conferences, but for those using braille, learning the new code is very important. Good luck! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: bounce-1401065-19082@mlist.cde.ca.gov [mailto:bounce-1401065-19082@mlist.cde.ca.gov] On Behalf Of Jana Hertz Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 9:37 AM To: Gaeir Dietrich Subject: [braille-n-teach] NBA Spring Professional Development Conference 2015 NBA Spring Professional Development Conference Austin, Texas https://www.regonline.com/custImages/330000/335371/Anniversary%20Logo.png Celebrating 70 Years of Service! Thursday, April 16, 2015 - Saturday, April 18, 2015 Calling all Transcribers, TVIs, Paraprofessionals, Parents, and Professionals in Blindness field, I would like to extend an invitation to the National Braille Association Spring 2015 Professional Development Conference and the kick-off event of our 70th anniversary year. From April 16th to April 18th, we will convene in the "friendly city" of Austin, Texas. Referred to as the city of slogans, Austin is most known for being the "live music capital of the world." We are pleased to announce that we will be offering the three-day intensive training on the Unified English Braille (UEB) code that was so well received at our Fall 2014 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This training, referred to as "UEBe Ready", is a must-attend workshop for any transcriber or teacher who needs to be prepared to transcribe using UEB. This workshop is limited to the first 200 people who register, so make sure to sign up as soon as possible. Additionally, we will be offering a three-day "Braille Boot Camp, " a two-day training on CorelDRAW, and our standard three days of half-day workshops. Some workshops are limited in the number of participants, so don't delay in registering. Our host is the Double Tree Austin. The room rate is $149.00 per night for single or double occupancy. Reservations must be made on or before March 29, 2015 to receive the conference rate. Early-bird Registration is $175.00 through February 28, 2015. There will be NO On-site registration at this conference. To register, and for additional information, visit our website: www.nationalbraille.org Early Bird registration deadline is approaching! Be sure to reserve your place before we are full! Reminder: There will be NO on-site registration available. Jana Hertz Certified Braille Transcriber/Alternate Media Specialist Program for Visually Impaired Students George White Elementary School P-5 25422 Chapparosa Park Drive Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 (949) 489-7484 Fax (949) 249-6781 CTEBVI Literary Specialist National Braille Association - Vice President National Braille Association Skills Coordinator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 171539 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 2015 NBA Spring Professional Development Conference.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 66272 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Thu Feb 19 10:17:57 2015 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00f801d04c70$637d0450$2a770cf0$@htctu.net> I am sure that Sean will weigh in at some point as Stanford has implemented a customized Sensus Access (Robobraille) system. I am looking at a similar customized package for the CCCs, and I literally just started testing (yesterday ;-). The biggest thing to remember about this service, from my perspective, is that the system is automated?so garbage in, garbage out. My intention is actually not to use it for braille (we already have pretty good systems for braille in place in the CCCs) but for DAISY, MP3, and accessible PDF documents. I like the fact that Sensus provides a cloud-based solution?removing the time consuming rendering of TTS from local machines so that the CPUs are freed for other work. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of theoldog@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:37 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? We are currently evaluating Robobraille and would appreciate hearing any feedback from anyone using it or Sensusaccess. Thanks in advance for any and all comments! d:) debi.turner@humber.ca Debi Turner Assistive Technician, Disability Services Humber ITAL Student Success & Engagement Room A120, Lakeshore Campus 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8 Tel: (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268 Fax: (416) 252-8800 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Maria Bohn Resource Accommodations Specialist Office of Specialized Services Bergen Community College [cid:3254BADB-7FB3-49A1-8F10-F7B8B6D48982] From: , Corinna > Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 1:35 PM To: "athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu)" > Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question Hello all, I received a file from Pearson through ATN. The file print quality/format is in very bad shape (disconnected text, varying sizes, compressed words, etc). I did request a better copy but alas this is all they have. I don?t really have the capability to scan (I could but it would be one page at a time) so I?m drudging through it in Kurzweil and zone editing the underlying text. Does anyone have any suggestions on a different way to do this? I am the only one in my office who handles this stuff. This is the first time I?ve gotten a file in such bad shape. It is every page. I?ve attached one page as an example of the issue. 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ATN does have a issue resolution process, so you might try that to see if you can get the file in a correctly rendered PDF version. Pearson is pretty good at responding directly, too. -Brian On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Maria Bohn wrote: > I JUST had the same experience. Unfortunately I do not have a solution but > please share to the list if you get any. > > Thank you. > > Maria Bohn > Resource Accommodations Specialist > Office of Specialized Services > Bergen Community College > > [cid:3254BADB-7FB3-49A1-8F10-F7B8B6D48982] > > From: , Corinna > > Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 1:35 PM > To: "athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu athen-list@u.washington.edu>)" athen-list@u.washington.edu>> > Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question > > Hello all, > > I received a file from Pearson through ATN. The file print quality/format > is in very bad shape (disconnected text, varying sizes, compressed words, > etc). I did request a better copy but alas this is all they have. I don?t > really have the capability to scan (I could but it would be one page at a > time) so I?m drudging through it in Kurzweil and zone editing the > underlying text. Does anyone have any suggestions on a different way to do > this? I am the only one in my office who handles this stuff. This is the > first time I?ve gotten a file in such bad shape. It is every page. I?ve > attached one page as an example of the issue. > > Thanks in advance, > > > Corinna Moore, NIC Advanced > Interpreting Services Coordinator > Cochise College > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Except for problems with the headings, it really went into Kurzweil quite nicely.oh the stories we could tell. ;-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Moore, Corinna Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:35 AM To: athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question Hello all, I received a file from Pearson through ATN. The file print quality/format is in very bad shape (disconnected text, varying sizes, compressed words, etc). I did request a better copy but alas this is all they have. I don't really have the capability to scan (I could but it would be one page at a time) so I'm drudging through it in Kurzweil and zone editing the underlying text. Does anyone have any suggestions on a different way to do this? I am the only one in my office who handles this stuff. 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Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Moore, Corinna Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:35 PM To: athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question Hello all, I received a file from Pearson through ATN. The file print quality/format is in very bad shape (disconnected text, varying sizes, compressed words, etc). I did request a better copy but alas this is all they have. I don't really have the capability to scan (I could but it would be one page at a time) so I'm drudging through it in Kurzweil and zone editing the underlying text. Does anyone have any suggestions on a different way to do this? I am the only one in my office who handles this stuff. This is the first time I've gotten a file in such bad shape. It is every page. I've attached one page as an example of the issue. 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(The virtual printer is in the drop-down list of your printer choices.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:11 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Kurzweil Question The file quality does not actually look too bad other than the printers marks which could easily be cropped out in Adobe Acrobat. Once this is done the best way to process it would be to bring it directly into Kzy. If most of the book is this simply structured the zoning should be straightforward. Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Moore, Corinna Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:35 PM To: athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question Hello all, I received a file from Pearson through ATN. 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URL: From karen.schneider at sinclair.edu Thu Feb 19 11:41:49 2015 From: karen.schneider at sinclair.edu (Schneider, Karen) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Message-ID: Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. Please share/advise as I feel like I'm running in circles. Thanks, Karen Karen L. 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Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Access Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 303-735-4836 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Karen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:42 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. Please share/advise as I feel like I'm running in circles. Thanks, Karen Karen L. Schneider, MRC, CRC Adaptive Equipment Specialist Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton OH 45402 (937) 512-2136 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.gif Type: image/gif Size: 69751 bytes Desc: image002.gif URL: From moorec at cochise.edu Thu Feb 19 11:46:56 2015 From: moorec at cochise.edu (Moore, Corinna) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:16 2018 Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question In-Reply-To: <017101d04c7a$a17b2e30$e4718a90$@htctu.net> References: <3F818A6F3A8E294C90DB3C793E241134730D8625@Email1.cochise.edu> <349c01d04c77$bb9aadc0$32d00940$@gmail.com> <017101d04c7a$a17b2e30$e4718a90$@htctu.net> Message-ID: <3F818A6F3A8E294C90DB3C793E241134730D8BD7@Email1.cochise.edu> BINGO! I've used the Virtual Printer before for other files but I usually just open the PDFs straight in K3000 and then save to the Universal Library. The Virtual Printer didn't solve all the problems but it is definitely a vast improvement. Thanks Gaeir and thanks everyone for all the suggestions! Corinna From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Gaeir Dietrich Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:31 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Kurzweil Question One other thought. If the file is not coming in cleaning just by going to File > Open in Kurzweil, you could try using the KESI Virtual Printer from Adobe Acrobat Pro. Using the virtual printer can make a huge difference. In fact, the virtual printer is one of the unsung heroes of Kurzweil. Any file that you can open, you can take into Kurzweil using the virtual printer. (The virtual printer is in the drop-down list of your printer choices.) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Stewart Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:11 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Kurzweil Question The file quality does not actually look too bad other than the printers marks which could easily be cropped out in Adobe Acrobat. Once this is done the best way to process it would be to bring it directly into Kzy. If most of the book is this simply structured the zoning should be straightforward. Ron Stewart From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Moore, Corinna Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 12:35 PM To: athen-list (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Kurzweil Question Hello all, I received a file from Pearson through ATN. The file print quality/format is in very bad shape (disconnected text, varying sizes, compressed words, etc). I did request a better copy but alas this is all they have. I don't really have the capability to scan (I could but it would be one page at a time) so I'm drudging through it in Kurzweil and zone editing the underlying text. Does anyone have any suggestions on a different way to do this? I am the only one in my office who handles this stuff. This is the first time I've gotten a file in such bad shape. It is every page. I've attached one page as an example of the issue. Thanks in advance, Corinna Moore, NIC Advanced Interpreting Services Coordinator Cochise College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gdietrich at htctu.net Thu Feb 19 11:47:58 2015 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <01b801d04c7c$f67765a0$e36630e0$@htctu.net> The first thing I would check is to see if there is a size limit on your e-mail inbox. More than one campus has engaged in this same "we sent it, I did not receive it" discussion only to find that the file size was too big and the campus server rejected it. Good luck! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Karen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:42 AM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. Please share/advise as I feel like I'm running in circles. Thanks, Karen Karen L. Schneider, MRC, CRC Adaptive Equipment Specialist Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton OH 45402 (937) 512-2136 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.gif Type: image/gif Size: 69751 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Brad.Held at ucf.edu Thu Feb 19 11:50:39 2015 From: Brad.Held at ucf.edu (Brad Held) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Yes. We were having issues at the start of the semester. The Access Text Network Manager, Bob Martinengo send us the attached email to let us know of the delay. Most of our request has since been fulfilled. Still a service that we can't live without, despite the few hiccups. :) Brad Held Assistive Technology Coordinator Student Disability Services University of Central Florida Ferrell Commons 7F, Room 185 Orlando, FL 32816-0161 (407) 823-2371 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Karen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:42 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. 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From: AccessText Subject: AccessText update: Pearson requests made by atservices@ucf.edu Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:32:20 +0000 Size: 3379 URL: From Cindy.Poore-Pariseau at bristolcc.edu Thu Feb 19 12:57:41 2015 From: Cindy.Poore-Pariseau at bristolcc.edu (Poore-Pariseau, Cindy) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3b68a649ce48468599428e400d300217@srvmail> I'm having the same difficulties and put the following request to the DSSHE listserve, but thought I'd share it here (I apologize for the cross post) Does anyone have access to the following as PDFs that you could share? 01-29-2015 15:44:00 Write Time, Write Place : Paragraphs and Essays, Books a la Carte Edition 0321908481 9780321908483 Pearson Education Publisher File Pending Approval 328712 01-23-2015 11:54:00 Juvenile Justice Today 0135151481 9780135151488 Pearson Education Publisher File Pending Approval 328709 01-23-2015 11:53:19 Heavy Hands : An Introduction to the Crimes of Intimate and Family Violence 0133008606 9780133008609 Pearson Education Publisher File Pending Approval "If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow" ~John Dewey Cindy Poore-Pariseau, Ph. D. Bristol Community College Coordinator of Disability Services Office of Disability Services, L115 * Email: cindy.poore-pariseau@bristolcc.edu * Phone: (508) 678-2811 x 2470 ? Fax: (508) 508-730-3297 http://www.bristolcc.edu/students/disabilityservices/ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Brad Held Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:51 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Yes. We were having issues at the start of the semester. The Access Text Network Manager, Bob Martinengo send us the attached email to let us know of the delay. Most of our request has since been fulfilled. Still a service that we can't live without, despite the few hiccups. :) Brad Held Assistive Technology Coordinator Student Disability Services University of Central Florida Ferrell Commons 7F, Room 185 Orlando, FL 32816-0161 (407) 823-2371 From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Karen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 2:42 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. Please share/advise as I feel like I'm running in circles. Thanks, Karen Karen L. Schneider, MRC, CRC Adaptive Equipment Specialist Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton OH 45402 (937) 512-2136 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 69751 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Thu Feb 19 13:27:00 2015 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <34D068EC55A9914494617A37B8D8FA84D4C93D6F@EROS.EMPLOYEES.KCKCC.LOCAL> No problems here. I order directly from Pearson and usually get the files within 2 to 3 days. Many times I get them the same afternoon. 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 Schneider, Karen Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 1:42 PM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] difficulty with Pearson pdfs Hello: I wondered if anyone else is having difficulty accessing Pearson Alternative Textbooks thru either Access Text Network, or thru Pearson directly. I am still waiting for books I requested at start of semester, January 5, 2015. The third party they use to send the download of the book has not gotten to me although they state they have sent it. Trying to solve this problem with my IT department, ATN and Pearson, Wamnet has been involved and ongoing. Just wanted to check in and determine if this is happening elsewhere. Please share/advise as I feel like I'm running in circles. Thanks, Karen Karen L. Schneider, MRC, CRC Adaptive Equipment Specialist Sinclair Community College 444 West Third Street Dayton OH 45402 (937) 512-2136 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.gif Type: image/gif Size: 69751 bytes Desc: image002.gif URL: From skeegan at stanford.edu Thu Feb 19 15:16:19 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? In-Reply-To: <00f801d04c70$637d0450$2a770cf0$@htctu.net> References: <00f801d04c70$637d0450$2a770cf0$@htctu.net> Message-ID: <209652988.8669587.1424387779199.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> Hi Debi, Just a note - Sensus Access is an alternate version of Robobraille. Last I checked, the Robobraille version is more up-to-date in its functionality. We built a customized version of the Robobraille platform here at Stanford that we call SCRIBE (https://oae.stanford.edu/scribe-project). It is different than Robobraille in that it is hosted onsite and is not the cloud-based version of the tool. The reason we did that is because the cloud-based version of Robobraille did not exist at the time and much of what was experienced here led to that solution. My opinion - stick to a cloud-based model. It can be a total pain to replicate such a service onsite (albeit amazingly fun and educational). As Gaeir mentioned, one consideration of the platform is garbage in/garbage out...although I have joked sometimes that it might be more accessible garbage! There are various factors that come into play with such a system, but a critical point is that this platform is *not* intended to be a replacement for an alternate format program at your institution. Rather, it is a solution by which students may obtain a quick conversion of academic materials into his/her preferred alternate format. We hear from students routinely that they need something fast and accurate, but it does not need to be perfect, and we have found the Robobraille solution to fit that need at this time. This conversation came up about two years ago and there are still relevant posts on this topic in the ATHEN archives. Joshua Hori and I posted some messages on the Robobraille discussion back then: Joshua's message: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007843.html Sean's message: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007850.html The full thread of the discussion starts with a very good question: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007836.html Just as an FYI (and to remain vendor neutral) - there is now another cloud-based solution that has emerged called ClaroRead Cloud from the developers of the Claro Read software program. I have not tested the system at this time, but more information is available at: http://www.clarosoftware.com/cloud Take care, Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaeir Dietrich" To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:17:57 AM Subject: Re: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? I am sure that Sean will weigh in at some point as Stanford has implemented a customized Sensus Access (Robobraille) system. I am looking at a similar customized package for the CCCs, and I literally just started testing (yesterday ;-). The biggest thing to remember about this service, from my perspective, is that the system is automated?so garbage in, garbage out. My intention is actually not to use it for braille (we already have pretty good systems for braille in place in the CCCs) but for DAISY, MP3, and accessible PDF documents. I like the fact that Sensus provides a cloud-based solution?removing the time consuming rendering of TTS from local machines so that the CPUs are freed for other work. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of theoldog@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:37 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? We are currently evaluating Robobraille and would appreciate hearing any feedback from anyone using it or Sensusaccess. Thanks in advance for any and all comments! d:) debi.turner@humber.ca Debi Turner Assistive Technician, Disability Services Humber ITAL Student Success & Engagement Room A120, Lakeshore Campus 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8 Tel: (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268 Fax: (416) 252-8800 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From ronrstewart at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 20:44:26 2015 From: ronrstewart at gmail.com (Ron Stewart) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? In-Reply-To: <209652988.8669587.1424387779199.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> References: <00f801d04c70$637d0450$2a770cf0$@htctu.net> <209652988.8669587.1424387779199.JavaMail.zimbra@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <38ae01d04cc7$e8702190$b95064b0$@gmail.com> Having been involved in the development of some of these systems I need to make a few comments. The SCRIBE system that was developed for Stanford was a highly customized and localized installed system. Sensus are no longer doing customized solutions as was alluded to, and they appear also to not be keeping their system in line with the current RoboBraille versioning which is the backbone for their system. The entire system is based on a "cloud" system that is based in a foreign country as is the ClaroRead system. This may be a legal problem in states that have vendor preference requirements. It is more importantly a significant disaster recovery issue if the system fails or collapses, and we have seen major cloud system failures over the last few years. They are an entirely internet based system that require high bandwidth connectivity. What are you going to do when the internet fails or you are limited to low bandwidth connections? There are licensing issues with some of the components in the system that are yet to be clarified. The system is using GPL licensed components that need to provide assurance that no copy write or commercial licensing requirements are being violated for the use of the components outside of the EU. What is being provided should never be considered to be student ready material. As has already been stated "garbage in garbage out"> Actually it is more significant than that it is "proper source file in, proper content out" with editing. In no way am I saying don?t use these system. They are fairly inexpensive for now and they can produce usable files if the necessary workflow is in place. You also need to work with your IT folks to insure that necessary backup systems are in place to insure that necessary data is not lost, and that incremental backup for the data is occurring on a regular basis. If you are using files from the system repositories that they are providing you need to insure that you are in compliance with necessary legal reproduction and redistribution restrictions for the use of individuals with print disabilities. It is really a buyer beware solution since these system are being sold as piece of mind and for me from a compliance and pedagogical quality issue it is nearly not as simple as it has been presented. Ron Stewart -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Sean J Keegan Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 5:16 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? Hi Debi, Just a note - Sensus Access is an alternate version of Robobraille. Last I checked, the Robobraille version is more up-to-date in its functionality. We built a customized version of the Robobraille platform here at Stanford that we call SCRIBE (https://oae.stanford.edu/scribe-project). It is different than Robobraille in that it is hosted onsite and is not the cloud-based version of the tool. The reason we did that is because the cloud-based version of Robobraille did not exist at the time and much of what was experienced here led to that solution. My opinion - stick to a cloud-based model. It can be a total pain to replicate such a service onsite (albeit amazingly fun and educational). As Gaeir mentioned, one consideration of the platform is garbage in/garbage out...although I have joked sometimes that it might be more accessible garbage! There are various factors that come into play with such a system, but a critical point is that this platform is *not* intended to be a replacement for an alternate format program at your institution. Rather, it is a solution by which students may obtain a quick conversion of academic materials into his/her preferred alternate format. We hear from students routinely that they need something fast and accurate, but it does not need to be perfect, and we have found the Robobraille solution to fit that need at this time. This conversation came up about two years ago and there are still relevant posts on this topic in the ATHEN archives. Joshua Hori and I posted some messages on the Robobraille discussion back then: Joshua's message: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007843.html Sean's message: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007850.html The full thread of the discussion starts with a very good question: https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/htdig/athen-list/2013-November/007836.html Just as an FYI (and to remain vendor neutral) - there is now another cloud-based solution that has emerged called ClaroRead Cloud from the developers of the Claro Read software program. I have not tested the system at this time, but more information is available at: http://www.clarosoftware.com/cloud Take care, Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaeir Dietrich" To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 10:17:57 AM Subject: Re: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? I am sure that Sean will weigh in at some point as Stanford has implemented a customized Sensus Access (Robobraille) system. I am looking at a similar customized package for the CCCs, and I literally just started testing (yesterday ;-). The biggest thing to remember about this service, from my perspective, is that the system is automated?so garbage in, garbage out. My intention is actually not to use it for braille (we already have pretty good systems for braille in place in the CCCs) but for DAISY, MP3, and accessible PDF documents. I like the fact that Sensus provides a cloud-based solution?removing the time consuming rendering of TTS from local machines so that the CPUs are freed for other work. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich HTCTU Director 408-996-4636 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of theoldog@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:37 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Does anyone have experience using Robobraille? We are currently evaluating Robobraille and would appreciate hearing any feedback from anyone using it or Sensusaccess. Thanks in advance for any and all comments! d:) debi.turner@humber.ca Debi Turner Assistive Technician, Disability Services Humber ITAL Student Success & Engagement Room A120, Lakeshore Campus 3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W. Toronto, Ontario M8V 1K8 Tel: (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268 Fax: (416) 252-8800 _______________________________________________ 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 SolowoniukR at macewan.ca Fri Feb 20 10:54:49 2015 From: SolowoniukR at macewan.ca (Russell Solowoniuk) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder Message-ID: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> Hi everyone, For exams where students are not allowed access to spell check and/or the thesaurus, we are having students use WordPad instead of Word. For the most part, this is working well, but we are concerned with the fact that WordPad does not have an auto-save feature like Word does, so in the event of a crash, the student will lose all his/her work. We remind students to save often, but sometimes, in the midst of exam anxiety, they forget. We are looking for an easy to use reminder program for Windows 7 that will pop up a message at a specified interval, say, every 10 minutes, to remind students to save their work. Is anyone using such a program? I've been searching the net and have found quite a fewsuggestions to use the Windows Task Scheduler, but my experiments with it have not worked so well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Russell Russell Solowoniuk AT Educational Assistant, Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University 7-198 D4, 10700-104 Ave. Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 E: solowoniukr@macewan.ca T: 780-497-5826 F: 780-497-4018 macewan.ca This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom 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. Please consider the environment before printing this email. From nettiet at gmail.com Fri Feb 20 11:08:09 2015 From: nettiet at gmail.com (Nettie Fischer) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder In-Reply-To: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> References: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> Message-ID: How about using the google task scheduler, it will present a pop-up reminder Also, I would like to add that in my opinion, 10 minutes is too long a period to wait and save unless, the student is a SLOW typist. I have lost lots of data when I forget to save in that time frame. - as in all AT, much depends on the user. I would reconsider and calculate the amount of input within a target time frame to determine the most efficient "SAVE" option. How about using something like a MotivAider and have it vibrate at the targeted time frames -the vibration is a subtle reminder to save? Nettie's nickel On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Russell Solowoniuk wrote: > Hi everyone, > > For exams where students are not allowed access to spell check and/or the > thesaurus, we are having students use WordPad instead of Word. > > For the most part, this is working well, but we are concerned with the > fact that WordPad does not have an auto-save feature like Word does, so in > the event of a crash, the student will lose all his/her work. > > We remind students to save often, but sometimes, in the midst of exam > anxiety, they forget. > > We are looking for an easy to use reminder program for Windows 7 that will > pop up a message at a specified interval, say, every 10 minutes, to remind > students to save their work. > > Is anyone using such a program? > > I've been searching the net and have found quite a fewsuggestions to use > the Windows Task Scheduler, but my experiments with it have not worked so > well. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Russell > > > > Russell Solowoniuk > AT Educational Assistant, Services to Students with Disabilities > MacEwan University > 7-198 D4, 10700-104 Ave. > Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 > E: solowoniukr@macewan.ca > T: 780-497-5826 > F: 780-497-4018 > macewan.ca > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom it is > addressed and may contain confidential, personal, and/or privileged > information. 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URL: From todd.schwanke at wisc.edu Fri Feb 20 12:06:59 2015 From: todd.schwanke at wisc.edu (Todd Schwanke) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder In-Reply-To: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> References: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> Message-ID: Hi Russell: Another possible solution would be to use Word so that you retain the auto-save capability, but remove the Dictionary/Thesaurus. If you go into the "Add or Remove Features" of the Office installer, it appears you can remove the proofing tools for the primary language as well as for the optional languages In the Office 2013 installer, this is located in: Office Shared Features > Proofing Tools > English Proofing Tools Todd Schwanke UW-Madison -----Original Message----- From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:55 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder Hi everyone, For exams where students are not allowed access to spell check and/or the thesaurus, we are having students use WordPad instead of Word. For the most part, this is working well, but we are concerned with the fact that WordPad does not have an auto-save feature like Word does, so in the event of a crash, the student will lose all his/her work. We remind students to save often, but sometimes, in the midst of exam anxiety, they forget. We are looking for an easy to use reminder program for Windows 7 that will pop up a message at a specified interval, say, every 10 minutes, to remind students to save their work. Is anyone using such a program? I've been searching the net and have found quite a fewsuggestions to use the Windows Task Scheduler, but my experiments with it have not worked so well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Russell Russell Solowoniuk AT Educational Assistant, Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University 7-198 D4, 10700-104 Ave. Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 E: solowoniukr@macewan.ca T: 780-497-5826 F: 780-497-4018 macewan.ca This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom 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. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman13.u.washington.edu http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From skeegan at stanford.edu Fri Feb 20 13:55:18 2015 From: skeegan at stanford.edu (Sean J Keegan) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder In-Reply-To: References: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> Message-ID: <20EA8193-05F4-4165-AA07-86943503CC4E@stanford.edu> I would second Todd's suggestion. For some students, a pop-up reminder every 10 minutes (or variant thereof) could be more distracting and negatively impact the overall assessment. The ideal situation would be to have the application or computer perform this auto-save function without interfering with the student's attention. Take care, Sean Sent from my iPad > On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Todd Schwanke wrote: > > Hi Russell: > > Another possible solution would be to use Word so that you retain the auto-save capability, but remove the Dictionary/Thesaurus. If you go into the "Add or Remove Features" of the Office installer, it appears you can remove the proofing tools for the primary language as well as for the optional languages > > In the Office 2013 installer, this is located in: > Office Shared Features > Proofing Tools > English Proofing Tools > > Todd Schwanke > UW-Madison > > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:55 PM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder > > Hi everyone, > > For exams where students are not allowed access to spell check and/or the thesaurus, we are having students use WordPad instead of Word. > > For the most part, this is working well, but we are concerned with the fact that WordPad does not have an auto-save feature like Word does, so in the event of a crash, the student will lose all his/her work. > > We remind students to save often, but sometimes, in the midst of exam anxiety, they forget. > > We are looking for an easy to use reminder program for Windows 7 that will pop up a message at a specified interval, say, every 10 minutes, to remind students to save their work. > > Is anyone using such a program? > > I've been searching the net and have found quite a fewsuggestions to use the Windows Task Scheduler, but my experiments with it have not worked so well. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Russell > > > > Russell Solowoniuk > AT Educational Assistant, Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University > 7-198 D4, 10700-104 Ave. > Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 > E: solowoniukr@macewan.ca > T: 780-497-5826 > F: 780-497-4018 > macewan.ca > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom 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. > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 norm.coombs at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 21:24:41 2015 From: norm.coombs at gmail.com (Prof Norm Coombs) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] EASI 4-part series on LD and Technology Message-ID: <54eab9b2.54beca0a.12aa.ffffcb83@mx.google.com> Webinar 4-PART Series: Assistive Technology for Postsecondary Students with Learning Disabilities: Exploring Strategies, Solutions, Innovations and Resources Dates: March 12, 19, 26 and April 2 Times: 11 Pacific, noon Mountain, 1 Central and 2 PM Eastern This webinar series brought to you by AMAC Accessibility in partnership with EASI will explore a variety of assistive technology products and services for students with learning disabilities at the post secondary level. March 12: Assistive Technology Solutions for Reading Presenter: Carolyn Phillips, Director of Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech March 19: Assistive Technology Solutions for Writing Presenters: Carolyn Phillips, Director, and Rachel Wilson, Tech Match Specialist, Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech March 26: Diving Beneath the Surface: Selecting Tablets, Apps and Accessibility Features Presenters: Martha Rust, AT Specialist, and Liz Persaud, Training and Outreach Coordinator, Tools for Life Tools for Life and AMAC Accessibility at Georgia Tech Note, there are several ways to register for these webinars: 1 Register for this series as an EASI Webinar member 2 Apply for a scholarship for this series 3 Register as a non-member paying for the entire series 4 register and pay for single Webinars from the series You can use the link below to read more details about the series and select one of the 4 registration options from the EASI Webinar promo page http://easi.cc/clinic.htm EASI's home page is at: http://easi.cc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From SolowoniukR at macewan.ca Mon Feb 23 07:10:19 2015 From: SolowoniukR at macewan.ca (Russell Solowoniuk) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder In-Reply-To: <20EA8193-05F4-4165-AA07-86943503CC4E@stanford.edu> References: <54E72089020000EC00039104@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> <20EA8193-05F4-4165-AA07-86943503CC4E@stanford.edu> Message-ID: <54EAE06B020000EC000391D9@gatedom2vs.macewan.ca> Thanks Sean and everyone else who responded to my query! Have a great day. Russell >>> Sean J Keegan 2/20/2015 2:55 PM >>> I would second Todd's suggestion. For some students, a pop-up reminder every 10 minutes (or variant thereof) could be more distracting and negatively impact the overall assessment. The ideal situation would be to have the application or computer perform this auto-save function without interfering with the student's attention. Take care, Sean Sent from my iPad > On Feb 20, 2015, at 12:10 PM, Todd Schwanke wrote: > > Hi Russell: > > Another possible solution would be to use Word so that you retain the auto-save capability, but remove the Dictionary/Thesaurus. If you go into the "Add or Remove Features" of the Office installer, it appears you can remove the proofing tools for the primary language as well as for the optional languages > > In the Office 2013 installer, this is located in: > Office Shared Features > Proofing Tools > English Proofing Tools > > Todd Schwanke > UW-Madison > > > -----Original Message----- > From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Solowoniuk > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:55 PM > To: athen-list@u.washington.edu > Subject: [Athen] Windows 7 setting up a recurring reminder > > Hi everyone, > > For exams where students are not allowed access to spell check and/or the thesaurus, we are having students use WordPad instead of Word. > > For the most part, this is working well, but we are concerned with the fact that WordPad does not have an auto-save feature like Word does, so in the event of a crash, the student will lose all his/her work. > > We remind students to save often, but sometimes, in the midst of exam anxiety, they forget. > > We are looking for an easy to use reminder program for Windows 7 that will pop up a message at a specified interval, say, every 10 minutes, to remind students to save their work. > > Is anyone using such a program? > > I've been searching the net and have found quite a fewsuggestions to use the Windows Task Scheduler, but my experiments with it have not worked so well. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Russell > > > > Russell Solowoniuk > AT Educational Assistant, Services to Students with Disabilities MacEwan University > 7-198 D4, 10700-104 Ave. > Edmonton, AB T5J 4S2 > E: solowoniukr@macewan.ca > T: 780-497-5826 > F: 780-497-4018 > macewan.ca > This communication is intended for the use of the recipient to whom 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. > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 gdietrich at htctu.net Mon Feb 23 10:11:14 2015 From: gdietrich at htctu.net (Gaeir Dietrich) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] FW: Alternative Media Specialist Message-ID: <010f01d04f94$1ca9ab60$55fd0220$@htctu.net> From: Terri Goldstein [mailto:terri.goldstein@bakersfieldcollege.edu] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:24 AM To: DSP&S Directors Listserver Subject: Alernative Media Specialist Hi Everyone, Bakersfield College is currently recruiting for a full-time Alternative Media Specialist. 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Braille repositories without much success. > > Thank you! > > > > > > > > > > *Jason Varnado* > Associate Director > Disability Resources > > 502 E. Boone Ave. > Spokane, WA 99258-0019 > 509-313-4034 > > http://www.gonzaga.edu/dream > > Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/GonzagaDREAM > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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June 16th and June 17th UMUC Conference Center and Marriott Hotel College Park, MD A 2 Day conference that will bring together national figures in accessibility issues from the Civil Rights Division, US Department of Justice, the National Federation of the Blind, the United States Access Board and The Association on Higher Education and Disability. The speakers will address our obligations for accessibility of all types of instructional materials and on developing an institutional plan for accessibility of instructional materials and technology and how we can work collaboratively to address those expectations. Who should attend: * Presidents * Provosts * Chief Student Affairs Officers * Faculty Senate Chair * Financial/Purchasing Officer * CIO * University/College Counsel * Online Learning Director * Online faculty course developers * Library Director/Dean * Disability Services Director/staff * ADA Coordinator * Advising/Counseling staff * Web Director/ Marketing Director Continental breakfast and lunch provided each day. Group discount registration available ( must be from the same institution) More information will be coming in late March/early April. If you would like to add your name to the email list for updates, contact: Emily Lucio 202-319-5211 lucio@cua.edu Emily Lucio Director Disability Support Services The Catholic University of America 620 Michigan Ave. NE 201 Pryzbyla Center Washington, DC 20064 Phone 202-319-5211 Fax 202-319-5126 Email: lucio@cua.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 11:37 AM To: DSSHE-L@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Software for Jaws and Dragon Besides J-Say, which is pricy.are there any other options out there for a JAWS user who also wants to use Dragon? Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Access Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 303-735-4836 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5716 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jsutton2 at stanford.edu Wed Feb 25 12:15:15 2015 From: jsutton2 at stanford.edu (Jennifer Sutton) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Software for Jaws and Dragon In-Reply-To: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB967844D1@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> References: <3E04A2F7AAD0E345B673D732D9A53807CB967844D1@EXC3.ad.colorado.edu> Message-ID: <8845c3cf.0000136c.00000002@Jennifer-PC.state.ma.us> Depending on how much the person can use their hands, JDictate could be an option. Here's the page of distributors: http://hartgen.org/distributors Jennifer From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 10:37 AM To: DSSHE-L@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Access Technology Higher Education Network (athen-list@u.washington.edu) Subject: [Athen] Software for Jaws and Dragon Besides J-Say, which is pricy.are there any other options out there for a JAWS user who also wants to use Dragon? Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Access Coordinator Disability Services University of Colorado Boulder 303-735-4836 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From ats169 at psu.edu Thu Feb 26 09:50:35 2015 From: ats169 at psu.edu (Alexa Schriempf) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] Canvas LMS and MathML Message-ID: Hello Listers, Please consider adding your vote to having Canvas LMS add MathML as a supported feature. https://help.instructure.com/entries/59813284-MathML-and-related-support-for-improved-math-content-accessibility Penn State is currently piloting Canvas by INstructure as possibly the next LMS/CMS that we will support. There's a lot to be said for their improvements on accessibility features; however, they aren't supporting MathML for reasons having to do with the lack of consistent browser support for MathML. Instead, they are relying on Latex and MathJax to display math, and latex to be read by screenreaders. Math will be inputtable via mouse point and click for those who don't know latex; for those who cannot use a mouse, they are expected to learn latex. Learning Latex is a good idea for anyone serious about math; but requiring users to come to an LMS already knowing a code presumes that all math users are fully literate in math. Moreoever, MathML is a WCAG standard, period. Please vote "me too" to MathML in Canvas! Thank you, Alexa -- Alexa Schriempf, PhD Access Tech Consultant https://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mdimac at kent.edu Thu Feb 26 11:15:52 2015 From: mdimac at kent.edu (Dimac, Marcie) Date: Sat Jun 9 18:32:17 2018 Subject: [Athen] JAWS and ISPRING Message-ID: Afternoon y'all I might have been dreaming, but I swear someone asked this question before, so I greatly apologize for asking again. Typically, I save all ATHEN related emails, but could find nothing in my history on this question, so here goes! We utilize Ispring to capture online lectures and then link them in BlackBoard. I'm doing an accessibility audit for our distance ed folks and am having some problems with JAWS and Ispring. Here are the facts: In Google Chrome, JAWS recognizes nothing and only repeats the URL to me. I can't move focus into the page. In Firefox, it does the same. In Internet Explorer (that's right, IE!), it WORKS and works pretty darn well. I'm able to control the playback options, and everything seems to be properly tagged. Any thoughts on why this is happening? Any suggestions on how to tackle it from an accessibility standpoint? Maybe I'm just not doing something right... Thanks for your thoughts! Stay warm! Marcie Dima?, M.A. Ed. Coordinator, Assistive Technology Student Accessibility Services Kent State University Ground Floor, Rm. 23 DeWeese Center P.O. Box 5190 Kent, Ohio 44242 Phone: 330-672-3391 Fax: 330-672-3763 Email: mdimac@kent.edu www.kent.edu/sas Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. 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