[Athen] Chemistry image description

[Russell Solowoniuk]

That's really cool! I was able to read information about the diagram
with my screen reader, Jaws. I didn't understand it, but was able to
access it! :)

Very exciting!

Thanks for sharing.

Russell


>>> Wendy Holden <HoldenWe at cwu.edu> 3/30/2016 4:38 PM >>>

Since we are nerding out about Chemistry, I thought I*d share some
super exciting chemistry accessibility stuff on the horizon. To see a
demo you can go to the Progressive Accessibility
Solutions<https://progressiveaccess.com/chemistry/index.php> webpage.
 This was one of the neatest things I saw at CSUN this year.  You can
navigate through the diagram using a screen reader.  I*m just sad they
aren*t calling the markup language ChemML.  ;)


Wendy Holden
Director of Disability Services
Central Washington University
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Hi Paul,

I have received my colleague*s permission to show his work:
http://butane.chem.illinois.edu/dmills/accessibility/ 

Doug Mills created this for online homework activities. This is his
comment via email: *I do not know of any students with disabilities
actually having used it at this point, but wanted to stretch myself to
see if the activity was at least potentially viable in terms of
accessibility.*

Doug*s contact information can be found on the slideshow. Please
direct your questions to him if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Lori

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Aren*t they already explained in the text? I haven*t read the text
closely but our experience is that most images/graphics in textbooks
merely replicate the text. While it*s good to have multiple formats
for content, it doesn*t make much sense to have the original author
make a graphic representation of his text and then for you to try to
convert it back to text.

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Our colleague from the Department of Chemistry utilizes HTML5, CSS3 and
JavaScript to convey information in complex molecules as in the first
example. This can be utilized by mouse, touch, keyboard, and screen
readers. If you want more information about his work, I will need to ask
my colleague for permission before I give you his contact information.

Lori

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Hi listers,

How would one describe complicated molecules and interactions? 
Examples:

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/faculty/macmillan<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chemistry.princeton.edu_faculty_macmillan&d=BQMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=yLNhwiX8iZacT6vVxox7Z_NGnpPZIttYTawwWKe49W8&m=DDljZCf-y3aCgXA5tQx_WhQ9C0Rawq4FqbTP91Riz2M&s=7L7NPqEva8EsMdlrBDZnXew370ZyYesQ79wkSLNVwoU&e=>

https://chemistry.princeton.edu/news/study-reveals-mechanism-behind-enzyme-tags-unneeded-dna<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chemistry.princeton.edu_news_study-2Dreveals-2Dmechanism-2Dbehind-2Denzyme-2Dtags-2Dunneeded-2Ddna&d=BQMFAg&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=yLNhwiX8iZacT6vVxox7Z_NGnpPZIttYTawwWKe49W8&m=DDljZCf-y3aCgXA5tQx_WhQ9C0Rawq4FqbTP91Riz2M&s=fZRMD-MmZDtlgdCJQntV8GhZ9Gua35IeEs4ucY7rt5c&e=>

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Jiatyan Chen
Stanford Online Accessibility Program (SOAP) Manager
Stanford University