[Athen] Conversion - Trying to make contingency plans

[Tamara Mariotti]

Scanning for us is currently being completed through our Print office. We send the book, he cuts it, scans it, I send a USB drive with the book, he re-binds the book and sends all to our Accessibility office. Our Print office is still open as of now. It is one main staff working alone. We have a disability staff review the raw scans, use Omni page or other OCR software to review, and creates the book chapter by chapter with the course. The cut and scan is not the hard part, it I the review and manipulation into an accessible file.

Hope this helps

Tamara Mariotti
Coordinator of the Office of Accessibility Resources (OAR)
Mohawk Valley Community College
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From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> On Behalf Of Heidi Scher
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2020 4:38 PM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Conversion - Trying to make contingency plans

Hello Athenians!

Our university has already announced that all summer classes will be online only. We still have no idea when we will be back in the office. We've almost developed our contingency plan for conversion, but have run into a wall. So, I'm reaching out to you to hopefully gather some options. I'm sure we’re not alone in this!

Any thoughts about the following situations would be greatly appreciated! I'm curious to know what contingency plans you're implementing for distance learners needing converted materials when you cannot get a digital copy from a publisher nor a hard copy.

Also, is anyone working with the campus library to obtain digital files which can be remedited OR books for scanning? If so, I would appreciate information on how your process is structured, who’s involved, who you are working with within the library, etc.

Situation 1: Student submitted a request and proof of ownership. Student is still waiting to receive delivery of said book. Files not available from any of our typical sources. Have attempted to contact the publisher multiple times with no response (not sure if the publisher is even open at this time as they are in the UK. But this could just as easily be a small publishing house in the US.) No local source to purchase book. Book can be ordered, but won’t arrive until finals week. Too late for the student!

Situation 2: Student submits request and proof of ownership. Student is not local. Files not available from any of our typical sources. Have attempted to contact the publisher multiple times with no response. No local source to purchase book. We have in the past had a student send us their book for us to scan/convert. (We cover all costs of shipping.) Once we have a book, we cannot chop the spine off (our print shop is closed and Kinko’s etc, will not accept any outside paper source items). But we could still scan the book manually.

With summer quickly approaching and the very short "semester" sessions on top of the current working remote order, we're trying to come up with some options.

A student could take pictures of the pages and use SensusAccess to convert or send them to us. But that just doesn't seem like a viable option!

Any thoughts shared would be greatly appreciated!

Heidi
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Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Associate Director - AT
she, her, hers
Center for Educational Access at the University of Arkansas
1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 209
Fayetteville, AR 72701
479.575.3104 phone
479.575.7445 fax
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