[Athen] ALEKS Accessibility

[Howard Kramer]

Hi Karen,

Yes, I’m very interested in talking to your faculty person. As Carmen
Schafer mentioned in another email, I'd like to know more about how the two
products compare - ALEKS and WebWork.

Paul - be aware that in the past McGraw-Hill has addressed the
accessibility of the questions with graphic material by providing a
check-box to either drop the question out of the placement exam for
students with low vision or blindness or to present a message on the
question that "human assistance is required."

-Howard


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Paul E. Paire <paire at temple.edu> wrote:


>  Karen,

>

>  Temple, at least, is very interested in learning more about WebWork. (We

> are also evaluating ALEKS. One of my colleagues has reviewed their VPAT and

> says it's very thorough and informs me that they say they will be fully

> accessible in less than a year. Alas I don't have any details beyond that.

> But an accessible alternative? Yes, we would like to know about it.)

>

>  Thanks,

>

>  -Paul

> (paire at temple.edu)

>

>

> -------- Original message --------

> From: Karen Sorensen <karen.sorensen at pcc.edu>

> Date:01/14/2015 10:06 PM (GMT-05:00)

> To: Howard Kramer <hkramer at colorado.edu>

> Cc: Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> Subject: Re: [Athen] ALEKS Accessibility

>

>  Hi Howard,

> The alternative we use is WebWork. It's open source and we have one

> faculty member who is very active in its development. We've done a lot of

> accessibility testing and created a VPAT for it that's just about to be

> published with WebWorK's latest update (that includes many of our

> recommended accessibility updates). I would be happy to put you in touch

> with our faculty member if you want more information.

> I also would be happy to share the cursory accessibility testing we did on

> ALEKS last January. At that time they had no suggested alternatives to

> graphical problems. We suggested making the images available for us to

> print but never heard anything back on that.

> Let me know if I can help.

> Best,

> Karen

> On Jan 14, 2015 5:56 PM, "Howard Kramer" <hkramer at colorado.edu> wrote:

>

>> Hello All:

>>

>>  It doesn't look like anyone replied to this question on ALEKS

>> accessibility updates. Does anyone have any updated information? Is there

>> any work being undertaken to make the graphical elements of the placement

>> exam accessible through long descriptions or tactile graphics?

>>

>>  I'm also told there are no alternative accessible products to ALEKS. Is

>> this true?

>>

>>  I'm now working with the accessibility and remediation committees on

>> our campus that were formed in response to UCB's OCR complaint, hence my

>> interest.

>>

>>  Thanks in advance for any info.

>>

>>  Regards,

>> Howard

>>

>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 8:43 AM, McGinnity, Julie A. (MU-Student) <

>> jamzk7 at mail.missouri.edu> wrote:

>>

>>> Good morning,

>>>

>>> We are investigating the current state of ALEKS accessibility.  I read

>>> up on ATHEN posts from last year, and they were helpful.  But now I am

>>> curious to know the outcome of the graphing issue.  Is the company still

>>> not providing tactile graphs?  Is ALEKS accessible with the latest versions

>>> of screen readers?  I have never used it myself but was led to believe that

>>> ALEKS was not fully accessible in the past.  Any information you can

>>> provide would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

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>>

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