[Athen] Teaching Korean to blind students

[Laura Hamrick]

Hi Laura,

I don’t have specific advice for Korean language courses, but I just recently put together some guidance on adding language attributes to Canvas content<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6EgGcCjPAGznYOEYHpKbkLU8SAm1fe_JeA-ky5rYqE/edit> to ensure that foreign languages are read out in a comprehensible way to screen readers. (It looks like UCLA uses Canvas, so I hope this is useful.) This is something faculty or their TAs could do to ensure that content rendered in Korean characters in Canvas is comprehensible.

This is particularly relevant for languages that use non-Latin character systems because they are usually rendered very poorly by screen readers when tagged as being in English. Here’s a video example of various Asian languages read by VoiceOver in English<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AdlhB8uf4A87wYKKW2iSjyBMphvomZkp/view> in Canvas (including Korean), which may be useful in convincing faculty of the impact language attributes have on comprehension.

(By the way -- if anyone knows of a less tedious way to do this than adding <span lang=”ko”> in the HTML editor for each string of text, I’m all ears.)

Best,
Laura

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Laura Hamrick
Captioning and Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Information Technology
University of Colorado Boulder
laura.r.hamrick at colorado.edu<mailto:laura.r.hamrick at colorado.edu>
(303) 735-5782



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Subject: [Athen] Teaching Korean to blind students

Hello,

Does anyone have any resources (audio, electronic, braille) for aiding students taking Korean language classes at the university level?

Thanks

Laura Nunez

Alt Format Assistant
UCLA – Center for Accessible Education
A255 Murphy Hall

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