[Athen] Respondus with a screen reader?

Lucy GRECO lgreco at berkeley.edu
Thu Jun 4 17:26:32 PDT 2020


You were able to get a lot further than I was using the tool I didn't make
it past the recording screen where it tested the microphone The problem was
that it brought up a window security alertjust imagine the stress for a
student with psychological disabilities this is not something we should be
using on our campuses

I think though the final straw for our campus was we had handed out over
600 Chromebooks to students and we knew that there was already a thousand
Chromebooks or more being used by students on campuses and the tool will
not work on Chromebooks so not only is it blocking people with disabilities
who need screen readers but it's also blocking people who don't have enough
money to afford a Mac or a Windows computer and I could not at for the life
of me allow it through the firewall frankly it was a terrible terrible tool
and a bad idea our campus is banned use of it it's not good The other
problem was is the lockdown functionality actually blocks other features
then as you said the silencing it with control key if you try to do a
screen find for example that is considered an illegal action and it will
stop your exam and boot you out not a good tool

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020, 3:38 PM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>
wrote:


> Hi all,

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> Sorry for cross posting…

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> Has anyone had success using a screen reader with the Respondus LockDown

> Browser?

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> I've had a chance to test Respondus with Jaws 2020, the latest version of

> NVDA, and VoiceOver on Mac OS Catalina, and the results were terrible. Jaws

> and NVDA were not able to read any of the questions in a test exam at all.

> If I hadn't had my Braille display connected, I wouldn't have been able to

> complete the exam. I was able to read the questions with the Braille

> display, and, Jaws did read the multiple choice answers, except it repeated

> the answer that was highlighted 2 or 3 times as well as the answer just

> below the selected answer, so I had no way of knowing for sure that I was

> focused on the answer I wanted to choose. On some pages, Jaws would start

> reading the page, and I wasn't able to stop the reading. Pressing CTRL did

> nothing. The log in process was a nightmare as well. There were multiple

> screens, for example, a screen to take a picture of yourself, take a

> picture of your student ID card, pan around the room with your webcam, etc.

> One screen had "facial recognition", and you had to click on "start" and

> then "continue" when the facial recognition was done, but I was not able to

> get to the "continue" button with Jaws. Jaws would say "continue", but a

> sighted person told me the focus was not on the continue button. When I

> tried the test on my iMac, I didn't even get that far. A screen popped up

> asking if I wanted to allow Respondus to use my camera, but VO didn't read

> this prompt and I wasn't able to get to it in any of the usual ways, like

> pressing VO + F2 quickly to bring up a list of running windows.

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> Maybe the version of Respondus we are using is the issue. We are

> using Respondus LockDown Browser - Version 2.0.6.06. Or maybe I am doing

> something wrong? Any ideas welcome!

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> If no one else has had any luck using Respondus with a screen reader, how

> can they get away with claiming it is accessible with a screen reader?

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> Thanks all,

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> Russell

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> Russell Solowoniuk

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