[Athen] [EXT] More accessibility frustrations

[chagnon at pubcom.com]

Excellent discussion.

Also consider that some sighted students are using small screen technologies to view remote sessions, so they can’t see where “here” is either, because the cursor is too small.

 

Some guidelines we developed for our own online sessions:

*	Describe where are you and what you’re doing: for example, click the Edit menu (pause), select Cut (pause), click an insertion cursor where you want to paste the content (pause), and then choose the Edit menu and Paste.
*	Adjust the size and color of your cursor. In Windows, my cursors are Extra-large and I’ve fattened the vertical insertion bar cursor to make it more visible.

—Bevi

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Ham, Kelli
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 12:24 PM
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Greetings all,

 

I’m a librarian at UCLA, but my specific program is part of a national network. I’ve been the broken record in my organization for more accessibility of digital content for years. As a course instructor, my area deals mostly with online courses, webinars, presentations, documents, and PowerPoint. As noted, it’s now more important than ever with everything being presented remotely. 

 

I’d love to get your input to share back with my colleagues here and around the country. Please respond directly – send me your gripes and what people need to do for accessible remote meetings or anything else right now. I’ll do my best to educate and spread the word. If you want to be acknowledged in my recommendations, let me know. Otherwise, all comments will be confidential. Reach me at kkham at library.ucla.edu <mailto:kkham at library.ucla.edu>  

 

All the best,

 

Kelli

 

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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu <mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> > On Behalf Of Robert Spangler
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I'm blind, too and I plan to continue griping about access just as much now, if not more, than I did in the past.  It is very easy for smaller groups with needs, such as blind people, to be forgotten during times like these, when there are many major changes, so we need to continue to educate people even more than ever now.

 

Robert

 

 

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 8:45 AM Robert Beach <rbeach at kckcc.edu <mailto:rbeach at kckcc.edu> > wrote:

I hear you, big time.

 

 

 

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I’m visually impaired. I’ve been in a ton of trainings this week on remote apps for working from home.

 

The audio usually sounds like this “I’m going to click on this. Then I’ll open that over here. Click on that. Now we’ll go over there and check this box. Now I’m selecting this …”

 

I don’t want to hassle my hard-working colleagues because they are already stressed. Griping about lack of access seems so mean-spirited!

 

And I’m pretty good at figuring out stuff on my own but it’s such a big waste of my time. And it’s so lonely having to always figure out everything all by myself.

Why can’t people **SAY*** what they are clicking on!

 

--Debee

 

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