[Athen] Respondus with a screen reader?

[Lucy GRECO]

hello: we made the disition that there would be no proktoring  softwair
this sumestor untill we had a better chance to test and viet what gets used
if we pick a better tool i will let you know
Lucia Greco
Web Accessibility Evangelist
IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration
University of California, Berkeley
(510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 8:28 AM Russell Solowoniuk <solowoniukr at macewan.ca>
wrote:


> Hi Lucy,

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> Thanks for this feedback. What is your institution using in place of

> Respondus, if anything?

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> Thanks,

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> Russell

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Lucy GRECO

> *Sent:* Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:27 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Respondus with a screen reader?

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> 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

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> 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

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

> wrote:

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> 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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