[Athen] Content remediation system?
Martin, Vance S
vmart02s at uis.edu
Fri Jul 19 12:20:56 PDT 2019
On our campus the Deans of each college designate the priority of courses, they send the list to me, and I contact the faculty for their files. I have the faculty submit their files via Box, and then I have 4 undergrad student workers who remediate the files. We do Word, PPT, PDF, and video. With video we provide captions, transcripts, and do our best to include audio descriptions. I then notify the faculty when the files are done. In a normal semester 4 students are able to complete about 45 total classes, it takes about 2-3 days to complete a class. We are going into our third year this fall, and I hope to increase the number of students to 6. I've keep track of total files, total page/slide/minute count and have the students keep track of time on task for certain files so that we can report back to our CFO how the money is spent and the ROI.
I also do a lot of training with faculty, and when I reach out to some faculty on these lists, they say they've already done it themselves.
Vance S. Martin, Ph.D.
Campus Accessibility Specialist
Center for Online Learning, Research, and Service (COLRS)
University of Illinois Springfield
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vmart02s at uis.edu
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1. Content remediation system? (Carrie Million)
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From: Carrie Million <CMillion at dvc.edu>
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Hello colleagues-
Does your campus have a system in which faculty and staff can submit content to be remediated for accessibility? If so, can you give me an idea of how you've structured that system? How many people are on your remediation team, and are any of them students?
Thanks in advance!
Carrie Million
Assistive Tech Specialist
Diablo Valley College
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I'm the new Electronic IT Accessibility Coordinator for the university, housed within our IT department. I, too, am curious how other institutions structure this piece of their accessibility plan.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 3:15 PM Carrie Million <CMillion at dvc.edu> wrote:
> Hello colleagues-
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> Does your campus have a system in which faculty and staff can submit
> content to be remediated for accessibility? If so, can you give me an
> idea of how you've structured that system? How many people are on
> your remediation team, and are any of them students?
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> Thanks in advance!
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> Carrie Million
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> Assistive Tech Specialist
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> Diablo Valley College
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From: Deborah Armstrong <armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu>
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Here?s a page from JAWS support you can use to test Nvda, Narrator and JAWS with speech and Braille.
https://support.freedomscientific.com/Training/Surfs-Up/Languages.htm
It explains how JAWS switches languages automatically if tags are correct. If JAWS or another screen reader auto-switches with the samples on this page but not with *YOUR* samples there?s a problem with your samples.
There also used to be a JAWS bug that kept JAWS from switching back to English because JAWS was expecting a tag to tell it to return to English when in fact the web standards say that it?s enough to have a tag at the top of the document stating that English is the primary language.
I think they?ve fixed this bug, but if you have an older version you might want to watch out for it.
Be aware there are also two kinds of foreign language Braille. Just as we have Grade 2, UEB and computer Braille, foreign languages have their own contracted Braille. But, when one is learning the language, the standard is to transcribe the foreign language portion in Grade 1 uncontracted Braille and just include the accent signs.
German contracted Braille for example is just as complex as our grade 2, and though I speak German I read the contractions with great difficulty. This is because I only learned it for a year when I was nineteen so I?m terrible at it.
But reading German by setting my display to use the computer Braille table is easy for me because it is just the alphabet and the special accented letters.
For the above explanations, I?m neither a Braille transcriber nor an HTML wiz, so I?ve simplified some of this explanation so it makes sense to us average folk!
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As a blind, Braille user who has also taken foreign languages, I would say that you are on the right track by providing accessible PDF?s with the appropriate language tags present throughout the documentation. You?ll also want to make sure that the student is using the appropriate Braille tables with JAWS to accurately reflect these Language Changes. His Braille output will need to be set to computer Braille. You can pick a primary Braille Table for the primary language being used, but can then switch to other preferred Braille tables for alternative languages. I?m fairly certain that when JAWS switches to the alternative Language, the alternative Braille table will also be in use. Whereas this individual is deaf-blind, solid Braille Access will be imperative for him to be successful.
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Hi ATHENites,
I?m reaching out regarding any experience you may have with providing alternate format materials for foreign language courses. For Fall 19, we have a deaf/blind student registered for Italian. He uses braille and JAWS and typically requests accessible .pdfs, but I?m wondering if this will be sufficient considering the particular challenges related to learning a foreign language.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated? and feel free to contact off-list at jillian.pfau at montgomerycollege.edu<mailto:jillian.pfau at montgomerycollege.edu>.
Best regards,
Jillian
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:48:32 -0700
From: "Sheryl E. Burgstahler" <sherylb at uw.edu>
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We offer training presentations in which faculty can engage, most are focused on document accessibility, web accessibility and captioning videos. They can also seek consulting from us or access our web resources. Our Seattle campus offers more comprehensive help with remediating their courses. We cation some high impact videos for free. Individual departments, colleges, and schools, e.g., the Business School, have instructional designers available to faculty as they develop a course and they include accessible videos, documents, etc. And then of course our disability services office remediates inaccessible elements of a course when a specific student has a related approved accommodation that requires 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
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> On Jul 18, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Kevin Andrews <ka791 at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm the new Electronic IT Accessibility Coordinator for the university, housed within our IT department. I, too, am curious how other institutions structure this piece of their accessibility plan.
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 3:15 PM Carrie Million <CMillion at dvc.edu <mailto:CMillion at dvc.edu>> wrote:
> Hello colleagues-
>
> Does your campus have a system in which faculty and staff can submit content to be remediated for accessibility? If so, can you give me an idea of how you've structured that system? How many people are on your remediation team, and are any of them students?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Carrie Million
> Assistive Tech Specialist
> Diablo Valley College
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From: "Rovner, Amy" <arovner at shoreline.edu>
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We are a smaller community college and in my role as our Accessible IT Coordinator, manage a program we call AIM - Accessible Instructional Materials. For now I have funding from an internal 3 year grant but that expires in June 2020 and I'm unsure how things will proceed after that.
For now I use that funding to pay for 5 part-time hourly staffers who do content remediation for faculty. None of my current staff are students but they certainly could be. They have to be FERPA trained and they are never working in live classes. If they were active students, I would be intentional about which classes they could access and what content. My staff currently manage the captioning of videos, they remediate documents, Canvas pages, etc. I do outreach to our faculty who teach the most often offered, highest enrolled, greatest impact classes to try to get them remediated first but we also remediate courses for any faculty who requests it. This will change if our capacity is stretched as more faculty learn about our services. We regularly offer faculty training on how to create accessible content, locate captioned videos, select accessible publisher content, etc.
It's bit messy and a lot of work but it is having a positive impact.
Feel free to contact me off list if you have additional questions.
Best,
Amy
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Sheryl E. Burgstahler
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 1:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Athen] Content remediation system?
We offer training presentations in which faculty can engage, most are focused on document accessibility, web accessibility and captioning videos. They can also seek consulting from us or access our web resources. Our Seattle campus offers more comprehensive help with remediating their courses. We cation some high impact videos for free. Individual departments, colleges, and schools, e.g., the Business School, have instructional designers available to faculty as they develop a course and they include accessible videos, documents, etc. And then of course our disability services office remediates inaccessible elements of a course when a specific student has a related approved accommodation that requires 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 at uw.edu<mailto:sherylb at uw.edu>
On Jul 18, 2019, at 12:18 PM, Kevin Andrews <ka791 at georgetown.edu<mailto:ka791 at georgetown.edu>> wrote:
I'm the new Electronic IT Accessibility Coordinator for the university, housed within our IT department. I, too, am curious how other institutions structure this piece of their accessibility plan.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 3:15 PM Carrie Million <CMillion at dvc.edu<mailto:CMillion at dvc.edu>> wrote:
Hello colleagues-
Does your campus have a system in which faculty and staff can submit content to be remediated for accessibility? If so, can you give me an idea of how you've structured that system? How many people are on your remediation team, and are any of them students?
Thanks in advance!
Carrie Million
Assistive Tech Specialist
Diablo Valley College
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