From justinr at disability.tamu.edu Mon Nov 2 06:32:51 2020 From: justinr at disability.tamu.edu (Justin Romack) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Chat bot accessibility Message-ID: <3a6b16cb1d1c445998ff0f19c14d3738@disability.tamu.edu> Howdy all! I had a colleague ask about accessible chat bot options out there. Are any of you working with something that?s accessible or can be easily modified to be accessible? Grateful for any direction you could point me. Thanks! ? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Justin Romack | Assistive Technology Coordinator Disability Resources | Texas A&M University 1224 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-1224 ph: 979.845.1637 | justinr@disability.tamu.edu | disability.tamu.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS | One Division. One Mission -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fathaulg at miamioh.edu Mon Nov 2 08:16:09 2020 From: fathaulg at miamioh.edu (Fathauer, Laura) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Chat bot accessibility In-Reply-To: <3a6b16cb1d1c445998ff0f19c14d3738@disability.tamu.edu> References: <3a6b16cb1d1c445998ff0f19c14d3738@disability.tamu.edu> Message-ID: These are some of the chat widgets I've seen with explicit accessibility statements: Olark: https://www.olark.com/help/accessibility/ LivePerson https://knowledge.liveperson.com/security-regulations-accessibility-policy.html Zendesk: https://www.zendesk.com/company/policies-procedures/accessibility/ Intercom: https://www.intercom.com/help/en/articles/2530813-is-the-intercom-messenger-accessible Blog post review of the above: https://krisrivenburgh.com/live-chat-accessibility-wcag-2-0-aa-conformance/ Cheers! Laura On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 9:34 AM Justin Romack wrote: > Howdy all! > > > > I had a colleague ask about accessible chat bot options out there. Are any > of you working with something that?s accessible or can be easily modified > to be accessible? > > > > Grateful for any direction you could point me. > > > > Thanks! ? > > > > > > > > > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > *Justin Romack* | Assistive Technology Coordinator > > Disability Resources | Texas A&M University > > 1224 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843-1224 > > > > ph: 979.845.1637 | justinr@disability.tamu.edu | disability.tamu.edu > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > *DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS *| One Division. One Mission > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Mon Nov 2 12:50:51 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] University of Washington, Seattle hiring Assistive Technology Specialist/Senior Computer Specialist Message-ID: Disability Studies Community, Please help spread the word! *Assistive Technology Specialist (Sr. Computer Specialist)University of Washington* The DO-IT Center is seeking candidates with a strong knowledge of *Assistive Technology* for an open Sr. Computer Specialist position . The role helps support students with disabilities from high school to post-secondary studies and careers, using computer and Internet technologies as empowering tools. Provide computer, assistive/adaptive technology, and Internet technical support to participants, mentors, and staff of DO-IT and other projects to increase the success of students with disabilities in postsecondary academic programs and careers and the use of accessible IT. Questions can go to Scott Bellman . 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Provide consultation and training for organizations partnering and collaborating with DO-IT regarding the accessibility of their websites, documents, videos, and other IT. Draft newsletter articles and develop; update, and disseminate electronic information resources; assist in grant writing. Deliver presentations, participate in organizations and otherwise promote the development, procurement and use of accessible IT, such as accessibility best practices for websites, digital documents, and videos. Work with an agile team that develops project proposals, secures external funding, and manages projects under the rules of a variety of funding sources. *RESPONSIBILITIES:* *Computer and Project Support:* Research hardware and software products to choose and implement assistive/adaptive computer technology and science lab equipment access devices and other access strategies for students and adults with disabilities so that they can be fully integrated into academic and employment settings. 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Distribute ATS resources and deliver presentations at workshops, meetings, conferences and other events, especially on IT accessibility topics. Represent DO-IT/ATS in WAPED (Washington Association of Postsecondary Education and Disability) and, as part of that role, help educational institutions in Washington State make their Web pages and other IT accessible. Serve on task forces, advisory boards and committees and engage in ATS-sponsored online communities as well as those sponsored by other organizations, including AHEAD and ATHEN. *Technical and A/V Support for Events:* Provide technical and A/V support for hosted events such as capacity-building institutes, UW IT Accessibility Liaison meetings, and other UW events. *REQUIREMENTS:* ? Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Or equivalent experience. ? Minimum of 2-3 years of work experience. ? Ability to maintain, troubleshoot, and fix computer equipment and software. ? 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He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Tue Nov 3 11:27:38 2020 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the laptop will pick up everything. Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist ? Student Accessibility & Support Services Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions CAUTION: This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all suspicious emails to support@kckcc.edu. Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From chagnon at pubcom.com Tue Nov 3 11:38:38 2020 From: chagnon at pubcom.com (chagnon@pubcom.com) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004f01d6b218$ed9a9b20$c8cfd160$@pubcom.com> Agree with Robert regarding the mic. Built in laptop mics are omni-directional, designed to pick up from 360 degree directions. Headsets with boom mics are uni-directional and are designed to leave out ambient noise. I find that gaming style headsets have the best quality mics and acoustics, even in the cheaper under-$75 range. You can find these headsets with single earpieces (leaving one ear open) and paired. And mics built into earbuds are in between the two; they are quasi-uni-directional. ? ? ? Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | Chagnon@PubCom.com ? ? ? PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing consulting ? training ? development ? design ? sec. 508 services Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes ? ? ? Latest blog-newsletter ? Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:28 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the laptop will pick up everything. Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist ? Student Accessibility & Support Services Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions CAUTION: This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all suspicious emails to support@kckcc.edu. Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: not available URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Tue Nov 3 11:46:41 2020 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Shannon, There is no more Dragon Dictate for Mac, sadly. Nuance dropped it's support for development several years ago and isn't planning on any new designs for the Mac users. Sadly, because there is no equivalent to how robust Dragon NS is for dictation and voice navigation. The options on the Mac are awkward, clunky, and inadequate (IMHO). You could run DNS 15 individual professional off a windows partitioned HD on his Mac. It would solve the dictation part but not the voice navigation part. I attended a seminar a few weeks ago offered by our Canadian colleagues in NOAT on Dragon Anywhere, and it is reported to work (for dictation purposes) with a Mac. Think of it as a voice profile in the cloud and portable recorded dictation. I haven't tested it live in the office so I do not know whether this works for live dictation or if it is more like the Voice Tracer recorder that one plugs in to the computer and imports. So you'd have two options for your student to use for speech-to-text using a standard DNS speech engine: either a partitioned HD with windows & DNS installed on a Mac, or using the newest Dragon Anywhere subscription. i would really want to have the DA folks provide you with a demo of how well this would work on a Mac so you're not out $$ and your student's not overly frustrated with technology which is promised to do XYZ and only does 'x.' As far as the conflict of the mic for DNS and the mic for Zoom, it's an easy fix: program a one keystroke macro that turns the dragon mic on & off, or program a one key macro that toggles between mics. I do this myself for the same reason as your student needs it! I suspect the easiest solution would be to run a partitioned or parallel HD with Windows & DNS 15 individual professional on his Mac. Hope this is helpful info. Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production The Foreign Type Portland OR foreigntype@gmail.com 480-984-0034 This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata . On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:23 AM Lavey,Shannon wrote: > Hi friends! > > > > I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and > ideas: > > > > I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and > prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a > Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it > does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. > Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest > Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? > > > > He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been > exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or > if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. > > > > Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom > meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is > picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have > suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when > using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. > Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up > other speakers/computer audio? > > > > Thanks for your help and ideas! > > > > Shannon > > > > *Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP* > > Student Service Coordinator > > [image: Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] > > Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building > > P: 970-491-4241 > > shannon.lavey@colostate.edu > > > > Assistive Technology Resource Center > > Accessibility By Design > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From Steven.Sullam at csi.cuny.edu Tue Nov 3 13:12:09 2020 From: Steven.Sullam at csi.cuny.edu (Steven Sullam) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <1604437928273.13239@csi.cuny.edu> Hi, I thought I'd just chime in here. I have seen the speech recognition in the latest mac work quite well and it has the power of cloud computing help to improve it's accuracy. It is very easy to try out. Just tap the function key twice and you can start dictating into any word processor. Steven A. Sullam Assistant Director of Assistive Technology CUNY/College of Staten Island 2800 Victory Blvd. Staten Island, New York 10314 718.982.3343 ________________________________ From: athen-list on behalf of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:46 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Shannon, There is no more Dragon Dictate for Mac, sadly. Nuance dropped it's support for development several years ago and isn't planning on any new designs for the Mac users. Sadly, because there is no equivalent to how robust Dragon NS is for dictation and voice navigation. The options on the Mac are awkward, clunky, and inadequate (IMHO). You could run DNS 15 individual professional off a windows partitioned HD on his Mac. It would solve the dictation part but not the voice navigation part. I attended a seminar a few weeks ago offered by our Canadian colleagues in NOAT on Dragon Anywhere, and it is reported to work (for dictation purposes) with a Mac. Think of it as a voice profile in the cloud and portable recorded dictation. I haven't tested it live in the office so I do not know whether this works for live dictation or if it is more like the Voice Tracer recorder that one plugs in to the computer and imports. So you'd have two options for your student to use for speech-to-text using a standard DNS speech engine: either a partitioned HD with windows & DNS installed on a Mac, or using the newest Dragon Anywhere subscription. i would really want to have the DA folks provide you with a demo of how well this would work on a Mac so you're not out $$ and your student's not overly frustrated with technology which is promised to do XYZ and only does 'x.' As far as the conflict of the mic for DNS and the mic for Zoom, it's an easy fix: program a one keystroke macro that turns the dragon mic on & off, or program a one key macro that toggles between mics. I do this myself for the same reason as your student needs it! I suspect the easiest solution would be to run a partitioned or parallel HD with Windows & DNS 15 individual professional on his Mac. Hope this is helpful info. Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production The Foreign Type Portland OR foreigntype@gmail.com 480-984-0034 This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata . On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 11:23 AM Lavey,Shannon > wrote: Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Wed Nov 4 15:32:20 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Cal State Long Beach hiring Assistant Professor of Linguistics (ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures) In-Reply-To: <167936F7-52D5-4375-9977-3FFB62B083DF@uchicago.edu> References: <167936F7-52D5-4375-9977-3FFB62B083DF@uchicago.edu> Message-ID: ? Hello Friends! The American Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf CultureS (ASLD) Program has a language and culture focused tenure-track position open. ASLD is under the CSULB Linguistics Department (FYI). We hope you will be able to help us circulate our open position in the American Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD) Program under the CSULB Linguistics Department. I have attached the official Position Description, and pasted it into the email here in case anyone is wary of opening attachments from external sources. Thank you for your assistance in spreading the word for us as widely as possible! All the best, Barbara LeMaster *CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH * *College of Liberal Arts * *Department of Linguistics * *(ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures Program) * *Tenure-Track Position Opening * *RECRUITMENT NUMBER: *2631 *POSITION*: Assistant Professor of Linguistics (ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures) *EFFECTIVE DATE: *August 20, 2021, Fall Semester *SALARY RANGE: *Commensurate with qualifications and experience *Required Qualifications: * Ph.D. in Linguistics or related discipline, or Ed.D. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree by August 20, 2021 Demonstrated potential for effective teaching. Demonstrated potential for research productivity for time post-final degree. Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population. *Preferred Qualifications:* Demonstrated excellence in effective teaching of undergraduate students learning ASL and Deaf cultures. Demonstrated successful experience in teaching American Sign Language courses using the ?Signing Naturally? curricula. Possession of an ASLTA certification. Demonstrated excellence in appropriate-level scholarly and creative activities focused on local, national, and/or global deaf sign languages and d/Deaf identities and cultures. Ability to work well with existing linguistic and ASLD faculties. Demonstrated collaboration with local, and/or national American and/or global d/Deaf communities. *Duties: * Teach ASL language courses to undergraduate students in ASLD levels one through five. Teach ASLD language and culture courses and linguistics courses as appropriate to training. Engage in appropriate departmental, college, university, and community service. Produce appropriate-level scholarly work and creative activities focused on deaf sign languages and Deaf cultures. Work within the ASLD program with existing faculty to connect with, and to build relationships with local, national, and global d/Deaf communities. CSULB seeks to recruit faculty who enthusiastically support the University?s strong commitment to the academic success of all of our students, including students of color, students with disabilities, students who are first generation to college, veterans, students with diverse socio-economic backgrounds, and students of diverse sexual orientations and gender expressions. CSULB seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the People of California, to maintain the excellence of the University, and to offer our students a rich variety of expertise, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. Information on excellent benefits package available to CSULB faculty is located here: https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/careers/benefits/Documents/employee-benefits-summary.pdf *How to Apply - Required Documentation:* - An Equity and Diversity Statement about your teaching or other experiences, successes, and challenges in working with a diverse student population (maximum two pages, single-spaced). For further information and guidelines, please visit: http://www.csulb.edu/sites/default/files/groups/faculty-affairs/equity_and_diversity_statement_tt_2019.pdf - Letter of application addressing the minimum and desired/preferred qualifications - CV (including current email address, telephone/videophone number, and a list of three references) - Copy of transcript from institution awarding highest degree - Two samples of scholarly work on sign language linguistics, or Deaf cultures-related work - *Finalists* will also be required to submit the following: - A signed SC-1 form, - An official transcript (e-transcript preferred, if available), and - Documentation of ASLTA certification, if applicable - Three current letters of recommendation Applicants should apply and submit all required documentation electronically through: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/16340 Upon request, finalists will be required to submit original, official documents, as noted in the required documentation finalist section. Finalist required documentation, and/or requests for information should be addressed to: Dr. Barbara LeMaster, Search Committee Chair, ASLD Program Department of Linguistics California State University, Long Beach 1250 Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach, CA 90840-0902 *Barbara.LeMaster@CSULB.edu* (562) 985-2725 *APPLICATION DEADLINE*: Review of applications to begin on November 20, 2020. Position opened until filled (or recruitment canceled) *EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS:* A background check (including a criminal records check and telephone reference check with most recent employer) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position. The person holding this position is considered a ?mandated reporter? under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and is required to comply with the requirements set forth in CSU Executive Order 1083 Revised July 21, 2017 as a condition of employment. ____________ CSULB is committed to creating a community in which a diverse population can learn, live, and work in an atmosphere of tolerance, civility and respect for the rights and sensibilities of each individual, without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, religious creed, sex, gender identification, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, medical condition, age, political affiliation, Vietnam era veteran status, or any other veteran's status. CSULB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. *Dr. Barbara LeMaster* *Chair, CLA Faculty Council* *Director, ASL Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD)* *Professor, Department of Anthropology * *Professor, Department of Linguistics* *EMAIL: Barbara.LeMaster@CSULB.edu* *WEBSITE: www.csulb.edu/~lemaster/ * *OFFICE: FO3-322* *OFFICE VOICE PH: 562 985-5037* *OFFICE VP: 562 317-1442 * *MAIL STOP: FO3-305* *ASLD OFFICE INFORMATION:* *EMAIL: ASL@CSULB.edu* *OFFICE VP: 562 985-1446* *OFFICE VOICE PH: 562 985-2725* *PROGRAM WEBSITE: * *http://www.cla.csulb.edu/programs/asld/ * *PROGRAM FACEBOOK PAGE:* https://www.facebook.com/CSULBASL *TWITTER:* @CsulbASLD *INSTAGRAM:* #asldcsulb -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-ycifa2b0.png Type: image/png Size: 38570 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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David Schwarte From: athen-list On Behalf Of chagnon@pubcom.com Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:39 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Agree with Robert regarding the mic. Built in laptop mics are omni-directional, designed to pick up from 360 degree directions. Headsets with boom mics are uni-directional and are designed to leave out ambient noise. I find that gaming style headsets have the best quality mics and acoustics, even in the cheaper under-$75 range. You can find these headsets with single earpieces (leaving one ear open) and paired. And mics built into earbuds are in between the two; they are quasi-uni-directional. ? ? ? Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | Chagnon@PubCom.com ? ? ? PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing consulting ? training ? development ? design ? sec. 508 services Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes ? ? ? Latest blog-newsletter ? Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:28 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the laptop will pick up everything. Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist ? Student Accessibility & Support Services Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions CAUTION: This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all suspicious emails to support@kckcc.edu. Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From lgreco at berkeley.edu Thu Nov 5 13:55:24 2020 From: lgreco at berkeley.edu (Lucy GRECO) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] mat lab and mathmatica Message-ID: hello: so this year is the most challenging to me because i am being asked to review more and more products that i just don't understand. I am not an engineer or I am not a mathematician. Has anyone done an accessibility review of mat lab or wolfram's mathematica. If so would you be willing to give me a hand with coming up with notes for faculty to use these tools and if accommodations are needed what that would look like. thanks lucy Lucia Greco Web Accessibility Evangelist IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration University of California, Berkeley (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco http://webaccess.berkeley.edu Follow me on twitter @accessaces -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Shannon.Lavey at colostate.edu Thu Nov 5 15:10:31 2020 From: Shannon.Lavey at colostate.edu (Lavey,Shannon) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: <004f01d6b218$ed9a9b20$c8cfd160$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: Thank you all for the helpful information! This is great! Do you have recommendations on headset mics, and also desktop mics that would work well with laptops? This individual would most likely need to use a desktop mic. Our center has some Buddy Mics - Buddy Microphones, but we have not had the best luck using them with laptops. Thanks again! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design From: athen-list On Behalf Of Schwarte, David M. Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:50 PM To: chagnon@pubcom.com; Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Hello Shannon, I will also mention that I have noticed noise in the signal from built-in Macintosh microphones before. If the student records audio using the built-in microphone, a hum or rhythmic clicking may be noticed. I am assuming this had to do with the electronics of the display, since the microphone wiring runs behind the display. I don?t know if this is specific to some models of Macbooks or even some specific machines. In the instances we have noticed this, the use of a headset microphone has made the dictation accuracy much better. David Schwarte From: athen-list > On Behalf Of chagnon@pubcom.com Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:39 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Agree with Robert regarding the mic. Built in laptop mics are omni-directional, designed to pick up from 360 degree directions. Headsets with boom mics are uni-directional and are designed to leave out ambient noise. I find that gaming style headsets have the best quality mics and acoustics, even in the cheaper under-$75 range. You can find these headsets with single earpieces (leaving one ear open) and paired. And mics built into earbuds are in between the two; they are quasi-uni-directional. ? ? ? Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | Chagnon@PubCom.com ? ? ? PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing consulting ? training ? development ? design ? sec. 508 services Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes ? ? ? Latest blog-newsletter ? Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:28 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the laptop will pick up everything. Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist ? Student Accessibility & Support Services Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions CAUTION: This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all suspicious emails to support@kckcc.edu. Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 13681 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.png Type: image/png Size: 13674 bytes Desc: image002.png URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Thu Nov 5 15:21:35 2020 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions In-Reply-To: References: <004f01d6b218$ed9a9b20$c8cfd160$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: When I hook up directly to the laptop for doing dragon dictation, I use an ANDREA USB noise-cancelling headset mic. Also recommend the Logitec noise cancelling mic. Both are adjustable and have a manual on-off toggle switch on the wires. Often when there's poor recognition on laptops it's a combo of using the built in laptop mic along with a lousy (or non-existent) sound card. There are sound jack to USB adaptors on mics as well as mics with built in sound chips (not as good as a good sound card. You can go to Nuance's website and take a look at the mics they recommend...then buy them elsewhere for less if you want to. Here's a link to several good ones available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Communications-NC-181VM-USB-noise-canceling/dp/B00206WJ42 Wink Hope this is helpful. Wink Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production The Foreign Type Portland OR foreigntype@gmail.com 480-984-0034 This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata . On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:11 PM Lavey,Shannon wrote: > Thank you all for the helpful information! This is great! Do you have > recommendations on headset mics, and also desktop mics that would work well > with laptops? This individual would most likely need to use a desktop mic. > Our center has some Buddy Mics - Buddy Microphones > , but we have not had the best luck using > them with laptops. > > > > Thanks again! > > > > Shannon > > > > *Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP* > > Student Service Coordinator > > [image: Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] > > Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building > > P: 970-491-4241 > > shannon.lavey@colostate.edu > > > > Assistive Technology Resource Center > > Accessibility By Design > > > > > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Schwarte, David M. > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:50 PM > *To:* chagnon@pubcom.com; Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions > > > > Hello Shannon, > > > > I will also mention that I have noticed noise in the signal from built-in > Macintosh microphones before. If the student records audio using the > built-in microphone, a hum or rhythmic clicking may be noticed. I am > assuming this had to do with the electronics of the display, since the > microphone wiring runs behind the display. I don?t know if this is > specific to some models of Macbooks or even some specific machines. In the > instances we have noticed this, the use of a headset microphone has made > the dictation accuracy much better. > > > > David Schwarte > > > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *chagnon@pubcom.com > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:39 PM > *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions > > > > Agree with Robert regarding the mic. > > Built in laptop mics are omni-directional, designed to pick up from 360 > degree directions. > > > > Headsets with boom mics are uni-directional and are designed to leave out > ambient noise. I find that gaming style headsets have the best quality mics > and acoustics, even in the cheaper under-$75 range. You can find these > headsets with single earpieces (leaving one ear open) and paired. > > > > And mics built into earbuds are in between the two; they are > quasi-uni-directional. > > > > *? ? ?* > > Bevi Chagnon *| *Designer, Accessibility Technician* |* > Chagnon@PubCom.com > > *? ? ?* > > *PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing* > > consulting ? training ? development ? design ? sec. 508 services > > *Upcoming classes* at www.PubCom.com/*classes* > > > *? ? ?* > > Latest blog-newsletter > > ? *Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text* > > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Robert Beach > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:28 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions > > > > If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly > in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking > up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the > laptop will pick up everything. > > > > Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package > when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. > > > > > > *Robert Lee Beach* > > *Assistive Technology Specialist* ? Student Accessibility & Support > Services > > > > *Kansas City Kansas Community College* > > 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 > > O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 > > rbeach@kckcc.edu > > > > > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Lavey,Shannon > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM > *To:* athen-list@u.washington.edu > *Subject:* [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions > > > > *CAUTION:** This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or > open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all > suspicious emails to *support@kckcc.edu*.* > > Hi friends! > > > > I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and > ideas: > > > > I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and > prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a > Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it > does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. > Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest > Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? > > > > He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been > exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or > if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. > > > > Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom > meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is > picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have > suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when > using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. > Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up > other speakers/computer audio? > > > > Thanks for your help and ideas! > > > > Shannon > > > > *Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP* > > Student Service Coordinator > > [image: Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] > > Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building > > P: 970-491-4241 > > shannon.lavey@colostate.edu > > > > Assistive Technology Resource Center > > > Accessibility By Design > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Please contact your college IT Help Desk if you have any questions. When I hook up directly to the laptop for doing dragon dictation, I use an ANDREA USB noise-cancelling headset mic. Also recommend the Logitec noise cancelling mic. Both are adjustable and have a manual on-off toggle switch on the wires. Often when there's poor recognition on laptops it's a combo of using the built in laptop mic along with a lousy (or non-existent) sound card. There are sound jack to USB adaptors on mics as well as mics with built in sound chips (not as good as a good sound card. You can go to Nuance's website and take a look at the mics they recommend...then buy them elsewhere for less if you want to. Here's a link to several good ones available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Andrea-Communications-NC-181VM-USB-noise-canceling/dp/B00206WJ42 Wink Hope this is helpful. Wink Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production The Foreign Type Portland OR foreigntype@gmail.com 480-984-0034 This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata . On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:11 PM Lavey,Shannon > wrote: Thank you all for the helpful information! This is great! Do you have recommendations on headset mics, and also desktop mics that would work well with laptops? This individual would most likely need to use a desktop mic. Our center has some Buddy Mics - Buddy Microphones, but we have not had the best luck using them with laptops. Thanks again! Shannon Shannon Lavey, MS, OTR/L, ATP Student Service Coordinator [Assistive Technology Resource Center Colorado State University] Room 301, Occupational Therapy Building P: 970-491-4241 shannon.lavey@colostate.edu Assistive Technology Resource Center Accessibility By Design From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Schwarte, David M. Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 5:50 PM To: chagnon@pubcom.com; Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Hello Shannon, I will also mention that I have noticed noise in the signal from built-in Macintosh microphones before. If the student records audio using the built-in microphone, a hum or rhythmic clicking may be noticed. I am assuming this had to do with the electronics of the display, since the microphone wiring runs behind the display. I don?t know if this is specific to some models of Macbooks or even some specific machines. In the instances we have noticed this, the use of a headset microphone has made the dictation accuracy much better. David Schwarte From: athen-list > On Behalf Of chagnon@pubcom.com Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:39 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions Agree with Robert regarding the mic. Built in laptop mics are omni-directional, designed to pick up from 360 degree directions. Headsets with boom mics are uni-directional and are designed to leave out ambient noise. I find that gaming style headsets have the best quality mics and acoustics, even in the cheaper under-$75 range. You can find these headsets with single earpieces (leaving one ear open) and paired. And mics built into earbuds are in between the two; they are quasi-uni-directional. ? ? ? Bevi Chagnon | Designer, Accessibility Technician | Chagnon@PubCom.com ? ? ? PubCom: Technologists for Accessible Design + Publishing consulting ? training ? development ? design ? sec. 508 services Upcoming classes at www.PubCom.com/classes ? ? ? Latest blog-newsletter ? Simple Guide to Writing Alt-Text From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 2:28 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions If he uses a headset with a microphone on a boom that positions directly in front of his mouth, that will help if not remove the problem of picking up the other speakers in the class. Using the built-in microphone on the laptop will pick up everything. Also, did he have the Mac download the entire speech recognition package when he enabled it? If not, that may be causing some of the issue as well. Robert Lee Beach Assistive Technology Specialist ? Student Accessibility & Support Services Kansas City Kansas Community College 7250 State Ave. - Suite # 3384 - Kansas City, KS 66112 O 913-288-7671 | F 913-288-7678 rbeach@kckcc.edu From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Lavey,Shannon Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 1:23 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXT][Athen] Dictation/Voice Recognition Questions CAUTION: This email originated outside KCKCC. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Please forward all suspicious emails to support@kckcc.edu. Hi friends! I have a client scenario I wanted to run by you all for some help and ideas: I am working with an individual who has difficulty typing and mousing and prefers to use dictation software. He prefers working on a Mac and has a Macbook Pro. He tried Mac built-in dictation and also Voice Control but it does not seem to be working that well, especially in Microsoft Teams chat. Do you have any other ideas for dictation on a Mac? He has the latest Catalina OS so I am not sure if Dragon for Mac would work any better? He has used Dragon for Windows in the past, so the other idea we have been exploring is perhaps running Windows on his Mac so he can use Dragon. Or if that doesn?t work, he would probably need to switch back to Windows. Finally, the other issue he runs into is when he is on a Teams or Zoom meeting and needs to dictate in a chat or dictate notes, the software is picking up the other speakers in the meetings and dictating them. I have suggested that he click the dictation mic off or say ?go to sleep? when using Voice Control, but those options don?t seem to be working for him. Do you know if there is a way to prevent dictation software from picking up other speakers/computer audio? Thanks for your help and ideas! 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I am not an engineer or I am not a mathematician. Has anyone done an accessibility review of mat lab or wolfram's mathematica. If so would you be willing to give me a hand with coming up with notes for faculty to use these tools and if accommodations are needed what that would look like. thanks lucy Lucia Greco Web Accessibility Evangelist IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration University of California, Berkeley (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco http://webaccess.berkeley.edu Follow me on twitter @accessaces -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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First thing is what version do you need > to review, desktop or web based? > > > > Alex Marositz > > Information Security and Compliance Office > > Information Technology > > California State University, Dominguez Hills > > E: *ATI@csudh.edu * > > https://www.csudh.edu/it/security-compliance/ > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Lucy GRECO > *Sent:* Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:55 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu>; The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent > Group Listserv ; WebAIM Discussion List < > webaim-forum@list.webaim.org> > *Subject:* [Athen] mat lab and mathmatica > > > > hello: > > so this year is the most challenging to me because i am being asked > to review more and more products that i just don't understand. I am not > an engineer or I am not a mathematician. Has anyone done an accessibility > review of mat lab or wolfram's mathematica. If so would you be willing > to give me a hand with coming up with notes for faculty to use these tools > and if accommodations are needed what that would look like. thanks lucy > > Lucia Greco > Web Accessibility Evangelist > IST - Architecture, Platforms, and Integration > University of California, Berkeley > (510) 289-6008 skype: lucia1-greco > http://webaccess.berkeley.edu > > Follow me on twitter @accessaces > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Here's a link for the first one: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/ahead_202011/CommunityBoard/topic/433718/ Let's make some more opportunities like brunches, lunches, and dinners happen during the next ten days. I MISS you all!!! Wink Harner Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production The Foreign Type Portland OR foreigntype@gmail.com 480-984-0034 This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive quirks, misrecognitions, or errata . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Mon Nov 9 20:14:51 2020 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] a virtual drinks and dinner invite In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Forgive cross posting. Hi all, For those of you attending Accessing Higher Ground Virtual conference this year, instead of escaping the hotel for drinks & dinner and heading over to Rock Bottom, we're going to set up some virtual "rock bottoms" for us during the next 10 days. The first drinks of your choice & dinner is scheduled for this Wednesday, 11/11/2020 at 530 p.m. Pacific time. We have a community room set up through the Whova conference app. Check out the app, and then go to this link to "join us" for drinks, dinner (make sure your fridge is stocked) and catch-up conversations. Here's a link for the first one: whova.com/portal/webapp/ahead_202011/CommunityBoard/... Let's make some more opportunities like brunches, lunches, and dinners happen during the next ten days. I MISS you all!!! 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ATHEN Annual Meeting - All are welcome to attend the ATHEN Annual Meeting which will take place Wednesday, November 18 at Noon (Mountain Time). - Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-Grpz4rGdxGZms6LieQN6SvdrOcyQQv - After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. - Real-Time Captioning will be provided. 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URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Wed Nov 11 21:16:20 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Atlanta: Georgia State University hiring Director of Access & Accommodations Center Message-ID: Director, Access & Accommodations Center - 20000575 Description : The Director of the Access and Accommodations Center works collaboratively within the university community to provide leadership in the development, facilitation, implementation and assessment of a comprehensive array of support services designed to ensure university access for qualified students with disabilities. The position provides administrative oversight for the Access and Accommodation Center and reports to the Associate Vice President for Student Health and Wellness. This position is required to travel to multiple campuses. The scope of responsibility will include these specific duties but is not limited to the following, - Provides administrative oversight for all aspects of the Access and Accommodation Center, university wide (Six campus locations). Services include planning, analyzing and developing effective policies, procedures and methods of service provision; managing daily operations, record maintenance; departmental and institutional compliance with appropriate legal mandates and relevant policies/procedures. - Serves as an advocate and liaison to the university community by building networks that ensure understanding, support, and responsiveness to the development of effective policies and protocols, support services and reasonable accommodation; establishes and maintains effective working relationships, collaborations, partnerships and co-sponsorships with a variety of administrative and academic departments. - Performs intake interviews with students, faculty and staff with disabilities; identifies reasonable accommodation; facilitates connections with appropriate support services; recommends appropriate accommodation(s) to faculty and others within the university. Develops and conducts training for faculty and administration regarding appropriate accommodation in the classroom. - Hires, trains, supervises and evaluates several full-time professional and support staff as well as several graduate assistants; supervises the scheduling of other student employees and interns. - Prepares, manages and monitors annual budgets; develops annual proposals for ongoing and one-time funding processes; reviews and coordinates the development, preparation and administrative oversight of all departmental contracts for external services; manages budgetary process for endowments; researches the possibility for grants from outside organizations to provide additional resources . - Works collaboratively to develop and periodically update an ongoing departmental strategic plan (including mission, goals, objectives, and learning outcomes) designed to facilitate the creation, implementation, assessment and evaluation of a comprehensive array of support services for qualified students with disabilities. Develops and implements an ongoing departmental assessment plan to measure student learning outcomes as well as to ensure institutional effectiveness and relevance of programmatic efforts. This job requisition provides a high-level job definition. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive or exclusive list of job duties. As such, job duties and/or responsibilities within the context of this job requisition may change at the discretion the employee?s direct supervisor. Disclaimer: This job requisition provides a high-level job definition. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive or exclusive list of job duties. As such, job duties and/or responsibilities within the context of this job requisition may change at the discretion the employee?s direct supervisor. Qualifications : Master's degree in Education, Social Work, Psychology or similar related field and six years of working with individuals with access and accommodation issues. College/Business Unit: Dean of Students Department: Student Success, Access & Accommodations Center Location: Atlanta Campus Shift: 8:30 AM - 5:15 PM | Monday - Friday Salary : $74,000 - $78,000 Pay Grade: 3-1 FLSA Status: Exempt Job Type: Full Time (Benefits Eligible) Job Posting: 11/11/20, 9:07:25 AM Closing Date : 11/23/20, 11:59:00 PM Preferred Hiring Qualifications: - Master's degree from an accredited institution in Learning Disabilities, Special Education, Rehabilitation Counseling, Psychology, or other closely related field. - Experience managing budgets and familiarity with scholarships and endowments. - At least five years of experience working in post-secondary disability services. - Extensive experience performing intake interviews and making recommendations for reasonable and appropriate accommodations. - Experience reading and interpreting psychoeducational evaluations and other health care profession documentation. - Knowledge of relevant Federal statutes and regulations including the American with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. - Strong management background with experience in a supervisory role. Special Instructions: *To be fully considered for this position all candidates must submit the following:* - *A complete and accurate GSU application that provides the last 10 years of work history* - *Resume* - *Cover Letter* *Note: Education and Experience Combination: If your degree has not been conferred, you must provide an unofficial copy of your transcript with your application for the education to be considered in the evaluation of your application* *Applications that are missing any required documents or required information will not be considered* *Please note, Georgia State University?s career board updates daily and requisitions are subject to be removed without prior notice or before the posting expires.* Please note, Georgia State University?s career board updates daily and requisitions are subject to be removed without prior notice or before the posting expires. 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Krista -- Krista Greear Accessibility and Inclusivity Crusader ATHEN Executive Council Vice President Access Technology Higher Education Network ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rolf Black Date: Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:20 AM Subject: New MSc in Educational Assistive Technology To: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** The University of Dundee is pleased to announce the launch of an MSc degree focused on training and professionalising the role of the Educational Assistive Technologist.? The MSc in Educational Assistive Technology within the University?s School of Science and Engineering will train individuals to implement and support the use of technology within education to enable students with a broad range of learning difficulties and/or physical disabilities access the curriculum. The first intake for this programme will be in January 2020. The degree has been designed primarily as a blended learning part-time course taken over two years (a full-time version is also available). The degree differs from traditional Assistive Technology programmes in its focus on the assessment and support of technology within the Educational environment. It is aimed toward teachers, therapists and technologists who are seeking to develop and enhance their ability to support learners who require Assistive Technology (AT). We welcome applications from people who have experience of working to support disabled students in a variety of contexts, inclusive of those who may not hold higher qualifications. The entry requirements for the course have been designed to be as inclusive as possible. Course participants already working in an AT environment will compliment theoretical learning with projects within their workplace. Students will also interact with expert users of AT within the University?s unique User Centre and during placements; and once qualified, will undertake the assessment, provisioning and ongoing support of AT systems within specialist and mainstream education or social care organisations. How is the programme structured? The two-year part-time programme will be delivered by a blend of distance and on-campus learning (depending on COVID-19 guidance) as many of the target students will already be employed in education and social care organisations that provide services to disabled people. The philosophy throughout the programme is that teaching will be highly interactive, and students will be encouraged to bring their knowledge to bear on the learning community. Intensive on-campus teaching (or alternative online teaching to reflect current COVID-19 guidelines) will provide the theoretical underpinning to compliment the practical elements of the programme which will be undertaken within the students? work setting. (Placements will be identified for students who are not currently employed.) Programme staff will work to support students and their home organisations to integrate the EduAT role successfully. Where possible this will include visiting students in their organisations to provide this support. Each year cohort will attend the equivalent of two intensive weeks per academic year, completing four weeks over two academic years. Full-time students will be accommodated by taking all four weeks within one academic year. Intensive weeks will normally take place on campus in Dundee where possible. Who will teach the programme? The programme is delivered by the Discipline of Computing with the addition of optional modules in the Schools of Education and Social Work, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.? The programme builds on the expertise in Accessibility and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Technology within Computing and the ongoing collaboration across other Schools. The programme director is Professor Annalu Waller OBE, supported by two lecturers with extensive experience of working with and teaching individuals with a wide range of disabilities, Rohan Slaughter and Rolf Black. Together we have over 90 years? experience in AT. You can find more information about the programme at: aac.dundee.ac.uk/MScEduAT. 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NVDA and Jaws can't trigger annotations on the webpage. They have a letter "a" as a keystroke listed -- only see this in Jaws. However, with VoiceOver you cannot highlight (Or maybe I don't know how), but if you press "a" as a keystroke the annotation process begins. With Jaws and NVDA you can read annotations others have made, and make comments on them, but I don't know a means to trigger the annotation creation from the webpage or web document. Let me know if you learn something else. Thanks Phillip White East Carolina University Whiteph15@ecu.edu -----Original Message----- From: athen-list On Behalf Of athen-list-request@mailman12.u.washington.edu Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 3:01 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: athen-list Digest, Vol 178, Issue 9 This email originated from outside ECU. 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Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS (Million, Carrie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:18:46 +0000 From: "Million, Carrie" To: "athen-list@u.washington.edu" Subject: [Athen] Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all, I'm interested in whether any campuses have used the Hypothes.is annotation tool with JAWS. I'm having difficulty getting the annotation/highlight tool to activate when I select text using the keyboard in JAWS. When I select the text with my mouse, the tools do appear. It's almost as if the Hypothesis website isn't recognizing the JAWS text selection. Thanks, Carrie Million Assistive Tech Diablo Valley College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I had the same roadblock and just today was documenting steps required to get it to work. The Annotate and Highlight tools do not appear because the text selection with JAWS occurs in the virtual buffer, not on the true page itself, so the page is unaware of your selection. You need to use a combination of Caret Browsing, the JAWS cursor, and passing through keys. Here are the steps I've come up with (this was within Canvas integration): 1. Once the Hypothesis page (module or assignment) that you want is loaded within Canvas, turn on Caret Browsing (F7) 2. Navigate to the text you want to select for annotation or highlight as usual with the virtual cursor 3. Determine the number of characters you want to select from start to finish. 4. Return the virtual cursor to the start location for your selection 5. Route JAWS cursor to PC cursor (INSERT + NUM PAD MINUS) 6. Simulate left click at that location with FOREWARD SLASH 7. Use SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW to highlight the number of characters that you previously determined you need to select (there will be no audible feedback, hence the need to pre-determine the number of characters, but you could copy and paste this selection to another document, such as Notepad, to confirm you correctly selected the text you wanted). 8. Use pass through modifier INSERT + NUM ROW 3 then A (to trigger annotation button) or H (to trigger highlight button). If you trigger an annotation, then focus moves to the sidebar automatically. If you trigger a highlight, then focus does not move to the sidebar and you will have to navigate there separately. Switch back to Virtual PC Cursor. To get to the Hypothesis sidebar quickly use CTRL + INSERT + B to bring up the list of buttons and go to the "Annotation sidebar button" and toggle it to expand the sidebar. I hope this helps. It appears Hypothesis is aware of text selection being difficult in JAWS and NVDA. I was pointed to this backlog item of theirs when I reached out to them asking for help. https://github.com/hypothesis/product-backlog/issues/1148. I was going to come up with the steps in NVDA as well, but haven't gotten to that yet. Thanks, Clare O'Keeffe Stanford | University IT Digital Accessibility Consulting Engineer, SOAP okeeffe1@stanford.edu From: athen-list On Behalf Of Million, Carrie Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:19 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS Hi all, I'm interested in whether any campuses have used the Hypothes.is annotation tool with JAWS. I'm having difficulty getting the annotation/highlight tool to activate when I select text using the keyboard in JAWS. When I select the text with my mouse, the tools do appear. It's almost as if the Hypothesis website isn't recognizing the JAWS text selection. Thanks, Carrie Million Assistive Tech Diablo Valley College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kerscher at montana.com Fri Nov 13 16:01:05 2020 From: kerscher at montana.com (kerscher@montana.com) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <004701d6ba19$3f6b8c90$be42a5b0$@montana.com> Dear All, I took the liberty of sending this post to people at Hypothesis. I will be setting up a session with their accessibility team for testing their accessibility, and Charles LaPierre from Benetech will join me. We have been talking to them for over a year under the Diagram project. This functionality has great potential for published materials in EPUB 3. They have made progress, but clearly it is not there yet. I'll post here as we make progress. Below is what they asked me to post here. >From Hypothesis accessibility team: As you may already know, when reading a web page with JAWS, navigation through the page happens in an invisible text layer using the Virtual Cursor rather than on the document itself. If a user wants to copy and paste a passage of text, they make the text selection in this invisible text layer. Nothing is happening within the DOM here, and this is invisible to the Hypothesis client. That is why selecting text with the Virtual Cursor the annotate/highlight tools do not appear. Through some initial research and consultation with a few of our Blind users, we've learned that JAWS uses something called Forms Mode when direct interaction with the DOM is necessary. Entering Forms mode does allow JAWS users to select text and the annotate/highlight tools will appear. However, we've found that when entering Forms mode and selecting text, JAWS does not read back the selection to the user. This is fine for keyboard-only sighted users, but obviously problematic for Blind users. We've reached out to Vispero, who were unable to get JAWS to read text selection events out to the user (and they declined to comment on whether they have plans to implement such an affordance). Our developers are researching some workarounds, which we are summarizing in this Github issue: Improve experience for creating annotations/highlights with NVDA (and JAWS) - as this is a problem for NVDA as well. So far we've learned that not even Google has come up with a satisfactory solution here for their commenting tool in Google Docs. Google's documentation indicates that a comment can only be added to one word. This would be a better experience for our NVDA and JAWS users than the current one, but still not ideal (as sighted users and blind users on VoiceOver are able to expand text selections to entire passages, or narrow them to one character). A few of our teachers have employed a workaround with Blind students using NVDA and JAWS which may be useful. It involves three options, each with benefits and drawbacks. None of these will be "one size fits all" and we recommend working with students to find a solution they feel most comfortable with. * Option 1: Use VoiceOver to annotate (drawback: not available to non-Mac users; also it's not always fair to ask a student to change their workflow if they are used to another screenreader) * Option 2: Enter Forms/Focus mode to create annotations (drawback: JAWS and NVDA do not provide verbal feedback while text selection is happening, so the experience is confusing) * Option 3: Stay in Browse Mode / Virtual cursor to read. Create a Page Note to discuss portions of the text (drawback: may result in a student "outing" themselves to classmates when they don't want to) Most of our students have chosen Option 1 or Option 3. For option 1, consult Apple's documentation for VoiceOver . For option 3: * Use your screen reader to copy the passage of text you wish to discuss, the same way you might copy text to paste into an email, Word document, etc. * Navigate to the Hypothesis sidebar and select the Page Note button * In the text box, type the > character, a space, and then paste the passage of text. Press Enter or Return twice * Now, dictate or type what you would like to say about this passage and post your page note. * Your teacher and classmates will see the quoted passage styled as a blockquote, with your commentary underneath. The annotation will appear in the Page Notes tab and won't be linked to the passage itself, but at least there will be context for the teacher and the other students to go with the annotation. Please note that we understand these workarounds are a stopgap rather than a true solution. We are committed to creating an equitable, usable experience for all of our teachers and students. If you or any of your students is interested in providing feedback on how the annotation experience could be better for Blind users, please send an email to katelyn@hypothes.is Best wishes, Katelyn Lemay Product Manager, Hypothesis Best George From: athen-list On Behalf Of Clare O'Keeffe Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:52 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS Hi Carrie, I have been testing Hypothesis with JAWS this week actually. I had the same roadblock and just today was documenting steps required to get it to work. The Annotate and Highlight tools do not appear because the text selection with JAWS occurs in the virtual buffer, not on the true page itself, so the page is unaware of your selection. You need to use a combination of Caret Browsing, the JAWS cursor, and passing through keys. Here are the steps I've come up with (this was within Canvas integration): 1. Once the Hypothesis page (module or assignment) that you want is loaded within Canvas, turn on Caret Browsing (F7) 2. Navigate to the text you want to select for annotation or highlight as usual with the virtual cursor 3. Determine the number of characters you want to select from start to finish. 4. Return the virtual cursor to the start location for your selection 5. Route JAWS cursor to PC cursor (INSERT + NUM PAD MINUS) 6. Simulate left click at that location with FOREWARD SLASH 7. Use SHIFT + RIGHT ARROW to highlight the number of characters that you previously determined you need to select (there will be no audible feedback, hence the need to pre-determine the number of characters, but you could copy and paste this selection to another document, such as Notepad, to confirm you correctly selected the text you wanted). 8. Use pass through modifier INSERT + NUM ROW 3 then A (to trigger annotation button) or H (to trigger highlight button). If you trigger an annotation, then focus moves to the sidebar automatically. If you trigger a highlight, then focus does not move to the sidebar and you will have to navigate there separately. Switch back to Virtual PC Cursor. To get to the Hypothesis sidebar quickly use CTRL + INSERT + B to bring up the list of buttons and go to the "Annotation sidebar button" and toggle it to expand the sidebar. I hope this helps. It appears Hypothesis is aware of text selection being difficult in JAWS and NVDA. I was pointed to this backlog item of theirs when I reached out to them asking for help. https://github.com/hypothesis/product-backlog/issues/1148. I was going to come up with the steps in NVDA as well, but haven't gotten to that yet. Thanks, Clare O'Keeffe Stanford | University IT Digital Accessibility Consulting Engineer, SOAP okeeffe1@stanford.edu From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Million, Carrie Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:19 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Hypothesis annotation tool accessibility with JAWS Hi all, I'm interested in whether any campuses have used the Hypothes.is annotation tool with JAWS. I'm having difficulty getting the annotation/highlight tool to activate when I select text using the keyboard in JAWS. When I select the text with my mouse, the tools do appear. It's almost as if the Hypothesis website isn't recognizing the JAWS text selection. Thanks, Carrie Million Assistive Tech Diablo Valley College -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Fri Nov 13 11:20:46 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Washington DC: Center for Democracy & Technology hiring (1) Senior Policy Counsel, Worker Privacy; (2) Postdoctoral Fellow, Explainability of AI in Content Moderation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: FYI - I work at CDT now so let me know if you apply! - Lydia Senior Policy Counsel, Worker Privacy CDT is hiring a senior policy counsel to lead a new workstream on evolving technology and the workplace. This position will report to the director of the Privacy & Data Project, which works to enhance individual rights and corporate responsibility in the digital world. The position is based in CDT?s Washington, DC office (with remote work currently in effect due to COVID-19). This position offers a leadership opportunity to engage on cutting edge issues around emerging technologies and workers? rights. The Senior Policy Counsel will lead a new initiative focused on the specific ways in which new data-driven technologies affect workers. The initiative builds upon CDT?s existing work on the use of AI in hiring , the potential for data to perpetuate discrimination, and our years-long advocacy for comprehensive privacy legislation and for companies to adopt meaningful policies to protect (and prevent exploitative uses of) users? data. The initiative will center employment issues and workers? interests in these conversations, with a particular focus in its initial phase on the use of AI-driven tools in hiring and employee evaluation, and the increasing use of surveillance technology in the workplace. The Senior Policy Counsel will help set the direction for and manage the execution of this project, including by forging collaborations with labor organizations, workers? rights, and civil rights groups engaging on these issues. The Senior Policy Counsel will conduct factual and legal research and draft legal, legislative, and policy documents, including legislation, reports and blogs. We seek a committed advocate who will develop substantive policy positions and written work product, work collaboratively with organizational partners, and pursue an ambitious and creative advocacy agenda before policymakers, regulators, employer associations, and companies alike. *About CDT * For twenty-five years, CDT has been a leading nonprofit public interest organization, working at the cutting edge of digital rights policy. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT engages in a variety of strategies to enhance civil liberties and human rights in the digital age, including advocacy, public education, and research. CDT works on legislation, participates in agency rule-makings, engages in litigation, and fosters consensus-building among public interest and private sector stakeholders. Key issue areas include free expression, privacy and data, government surveillance, cybersecurity and standards, open internet, election security, and competition. CDT is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and collaborates closely with its partner organization, CDT Europe, which is based in Brussels. For more information, please visit cdt.org. *Responsibilities* Key responsibilities for this position include: - Conducting in-depth legal research and analysis of technologies, data systems, and policies that impact workers and employers; - Collaborating with labor organizations, workers? rights and civil rights groups to set advocacy priorities; - Developing policy recommendations for public- and private-sector actors; - Drafting advocacy documents such as policy papers, blog posts, press releases, testimony, and agency comments; - Advocating before executive branch and legislative policymakers; - Engaging industry to advance best practices through written materials, public speaking engagements, trainings, and direct-to-company advocacy; - Representing CDT in the media and at public events; and - Developing and maintaining productive relationships with other advocates, academics, technologists, and communities. This position will contribute to other Privacy and Data issue areas as appropriate. *Qualifications* An ideal candidate will have: - 7+ years of technology law or policy experience, with some background in civil, consumer, or human rights advocacy; - Exceptional written communication, analytical, and problem solving skills; - Ability to contribute individually and as a leader within CDT and the broader advocacy community; - Ability to work with diverse stakeholders; - Experience developing concrete and actionable proposals while maintaining a longer term, pro-worker vision; - Commitment to advancing equity, individual rights, and social justice in the design, deployment, and governance of digital technologies. Experience with employment or labor law is strongly preferred, but not required. *Compensation* Salary is commensurate with experience and is competitive with public interest and government pay scales. CDT provides a generous benefits package that includes health care and dental coverage, a retirement plan, paid vacation, sick days, and parental leave. *To Apply* Please send a resume, cover letter, and writing sample to hr@cdt.org. *The Center for Democracy & Technology is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual or gender orientation, religion, or physical ability.* CDT Postdoctoral Fellow ? Explainability of AI in Content Moderation The Center for Democracy Technology (CDT) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on developing models and tools to improve the explainability and auditability of AI-based content moderation systems. This can include systems used in classifying, filtering, and recommending content on social media and other platforms. The Fellow will prototype and test models that can improve the explainability and auditability of these tools, and lead the publication of the results and other outputs as part of the Fellowship. Here we take explainability to be the ability to enumerate the reasons for arriving at a given result in a way that is understandable by relevant users, contextually relevant, and describes the assumptions therein. Auditability focuses on improving accountability in AI-based systems, and includes methods for identifying discrimination or other unwanted outcomes. While several proposals exist for how to address the explainability and auditability needs for AI-based systems, we want to develop, test, and prototype practical ways to improve both so that those using or affected by automated systems are better able to understand how and why a decision was reached, and so that independent researchers are better able to study the performance of such systems with respect to fundamental rights. We want to do this for a specific use case ? content moderation. The Fellow will lead the research, design, and project implementation, which can address explainability and auditability through separate research outputs. This is a one-year full-time Fellowship, with the possibility of renewal for another year based on performance and availability of funds. Limited funding is available to cover approved research expenses associated with the Fellow?s project. The Fellow is expected to produce at least 2 CDT research reports during the year, and at least 1 academic submission. In addition to the benefits and compensation described above, CDT will also provide mentorship to support career development. The expected start date for the Fellowship is January 2021. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of CDT?s research team, informing its policy agenda, and contributing to cutting edge tech policy dialogue in the U.S., EU, and around the world. The position also offers opportunities for identifying and leading research projects on other emerging technology policy issues, and working with CDT?s networks of external academics and partners. The position is based in CDT?s Washington, D.C. office (with remote work currently in effect due to COVID-19). *About CDT* For twenty-five years, CDT has been a leading nonprofit public interest organization, working at the cutting edge of digital rights policy. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT engages in a variety of strategies to enhance civil liberties and human rights in the digital age, including advocacy, public education, and research. CDT works on legislation, participates in agency rule-makings, engages in litigation, and fosters consensus-building among public interest and private sector stakeholders. Key issue areas include free expression, privacy and data, government surveillance, cybersecurity and standards, open internet, election security, and competition. CDT is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and collaborates closely with its partner organization, CDT Europe, which is based in Brussels. For more information, please visit our website at cdt.org. *Main Responsibilities:* - With the research team, design and implement a project to improve the explainability and auditability of the use of AI based tools in content moderation. - Produce at least 2 CDT research reports and 1 academic submission based on their approved research project. - Support the research team in identifying and designing other research projects that can inform the work of CDT?s policy teams; where feasible, support the implementation of these projects. - Write concise and compelling analysis in a variety of formats, including blog posts, advocacy material, white papers, and reports. - Develop partnerships with researchers in academia, industry, and civil society to further CDT?s research agenda. - Work with the communications team to craft sharp, compelling messages for media and other audiences based on research outputs. - Work with the development team to identify and develop relevant funding proposals. - Represent CDT through public speaking, participation in coalition meetings, and media interviews. *Required Qualifications:* - A completed PhD within the last 3 years in a relevant discipline (e.g. computer/information science, engineering, economics, public policy, communication policy, etc.). - PhD dissertation or subsequent research related to explainability and evaluation of AI based tools used in content moderation. - Demonstrated research experience in the form of peer reviewed publications or conference papers, etc. - Experience and ability to work in an interdisciplinary research team. - Some experience in systems design and implementation. - Experience in research design and implementation, including experimental and/or quantitative methods. - Excellent writing skills for technical, policy, and lay audiences. - Genuine curiosity with an imaginative approach to research design and implementation. *Desired Qualifications* - Excellent public speaking skills and experience that can deliver CDT?s research and policy positions to a wide range of audiences. - Experience preparing successful funding proposals for research. - Expertise in others areas of CDT?s work, including privacy, surveillance, open internet issues, and cybersecurity and standards. - A critical understanding of how technology, policy, and law may have a disparate impact on individuals and communities based on race, gender, disability, income, immigration status, or other circumstances or characteristics. - Good data visualization skills. *Compensation and Benefits* Salary is competitive with public interest and government pay scales. CDT provides a generous benefits package that includes health care and dental coverage, a retirement plan, paid vacation, sick days, and parental leave. *To Apply* Please send the following to hr@cdt.org: 1. Cover letter, 2. Full CV, 3. One writing sample (e.g., a published paper), and 4. A short research proposal (no more than 1 page) describing how you will address the topic above including your research question(s), methods, and expected outputs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Mon Nov 16 08:50:33 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Georgetown Prisons & Justice Initiative hiring (a) Communications Director; (b) Technology Coordinator Message-ID: The Georgetown Prisons and Justice Initiative is pleased to announce two new staff positions, which will allow us to strengthen our prison education programs despite the challenging circumstances and raise the PJI profile and deepen our relationships across campus and in the community. The first position, the PJI* Director of Communications*, will assume responsibility for all PJI communications, celebrating our successes and sharing PJI stories as widely as possible. The second position, the PJI *Technology Coordinator*, will focus on the urgent need to adapt our existing programs for online environments as a result of pandemic-related restrictions, although this position also has the potential to develop innovative research and library technologies for the longer-term success of our college-in-prison programs. Both positions will become integral members of a small but dedicated team, and we especially welcome applications from individuals who are passionate about decarceration and increased opportunities for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. The *Director of Communications *will be responsible for everything from strategic vision to content creation, ensuring that all PJI messaging is in line with our mission--to better understand the causes and consequences of the mass incarceration crisis, to contribute to solutions for effective reform, and to improve the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the DC area and beyond. We are searching for someone with a demonstrated record of impact in journalism or communications, and the ability to tell stories across a wide range of media and formats. Equally important, we are looking for someone with the willingness to center incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people in the narrative, and to amplify their voices and perspectives. This position would be a great fit for anyone who wants to help show the destructive effects of our system of mass incarceration and the powerful potential of education and opportunity to transform the lives of those who have been incarcerated, but it would be an especially great fit for someone who has been directly or indirectly impacted by the system. Apply for the Director of Communications Position Here The *Technology Coordinator* will play a key role in negotiating new distance learning initiatives with our partners in the correctional system, and implementing those programs with the support of Georgetown?s University Information Systems (UIS). The tech coordinator will also support faculty conversion of course materials into new online formats and facilitate discussion and interactions in virtual environments. Finally, the tech coordinat aor will be responsible for training incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students in the effective use of technology, and troubleshooting as required. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to bridge the digital divide and make a lasting impact. It will be a great fit for the person with the right combination of technological expertise and commitment to social justice, but like all of our positions, it would be an especially great fit for someone who has been directly or indirectly impacted by the system. Apply for the Technology Coordinator Position Here PJI is grateful for the support of both the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and our private donors. This funding has allowed us to establish these positions, expand our programming, and deepen the impact of our work. 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ATHEN Annual Meeting - All are welcome to attend the ATHEN Annual Meeting which will take place Wednesday, November 18 at Noon (Mountain Time). - Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-Grpz4rGdxGZms6LieQN6SvdrOcyQQv - After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. - Real-Time Captioning will be provided. If you would like to request any additional disability-related accommodations, please contact me at athenpresident@gmail.com ATHEN Annual Meeting Agenda Per the ATHEN Bylaws , the general agenda is as follows: - Introductions - Ascertain the presence of a quorum - Financial report update - Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting - Annual report of the preceding year's activities - Unfinished business and committee reports - Announcement of election results of the Executive Council - New business - Adjournment The minutes of the 2019 ATHEN Annual Meeting are available online for your review in advance of the meeting. https://athenpro.org/content/athen-2019-annual-meeting-minutes Please review the 2019 minutes in advance of the ATHEN Annual Meeting to allow us to save time for other discussions. I will see you virtually on Wednesday, November 18 at Noon! Thank you, Dawn Hunziker ATHEN President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kndeibel at syr.edu Tue Nov 17 09:12:26 2020 From: kndeibel at syr.edu (Kate Deibel) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Looking for feedback on Whova Message-ID: <86b27006621c41f6af55271637f74328@syr.edu> I'm assisting a conference plan its virtual hosting for this year's conference. I've managed to push them away from Remo and now they are looking at Whova. I know that AHG is using Whova this year. Although I'm not in attendance, I'm aware that some accessibility fixes had to be done via custom JavaScript. Any opinions on the Whova accessibility experience will be appreciated. In particular, if you're willing to chat with our conference organizers, that would be great! Katherine (Kate) Deibel | PhD Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian Syracuse University Libraries T 315.443.7178 kndeibel@syr.edu 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244 Syracuse University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tft at uw.edu Tue Nov 17 11:22:04 2020 From: tft at uw.edu (Terrill Thompson) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Looking for feedback on Whova In-Reply-To: <86b27006621c41f6af55271637f74328@syr.edu> References: <86b27006621c41f6af55271637f74328@syr.edu> Message-ID: Hi Kate, We provided Whova with a detailed summary of the most pressing accessibility issues in their web app (e.g., no headings). I met with a rep to explore each of these issues in depth and he forwarded them on to the engineering team, but they were unwilling to commit to a timeframe for fixing any of their problems. As you mentioned, we created a userscript to fix the problem ourselves: https://github.com/terrill/whova-a11y-fix Without the userscript, Whova is completely inaccessible (again, they don't even use headings, and some of their key interactive elements can't be accessed at all without a mouse, among other issues). The mobile app is a bit more accessible than the web app, but it too has problems. The userscript was created based on the Whova AHG experience. There's no guarantee it will work with another Whova conference that's setup differently and/or uses different features. If you end up using Whova though, feel free to try it (and assign someone with JavaScript skills the task of improving it). If your conference organizers are still considering alternatives, these might be worth a look: - Hopin - this was used by HighEdWeb. I did very limited accessibility testing of this tool, and was impressed with what I saw. It had ARIA landmarks, good heading structure, labels on form fields, and ARIA in various places that made it clear they were paying attention. I talked with a colleague though who uses a screen reader and had nothing good to say about Hopin based on their experience at another recent conference. It's possible that accessibility is a new focus for Hopin, and the accessibility features I observed had been added in between our two conferences. I definitely would consider them, and engage them in a conversation about accessibility. - Crowd Compass (from CVENT) - I have no firsthand experience with this but I've heard some good things about it from colleagues, and (I think) the NFB used them for their summer conference. - Clowdr - I have no firsthand experience with this but I heard from a credible colleague that it has "numerous minor accessibility issues, but no showstoppers." It was created by academics and they reportedly are motivated to ensure full accessibility. Regards, Terrill --- Terrill Thompson Manager, IT Accessibility Team UW-IT Accessible Technology Services University of Washington tft@uw.edu On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 9:14 AM Kate Deibel wrote: > I?m assisting a conference plan its virtual hosting for this year?s > conference. I?ve managed to push them away from Remo and now they are > looking at Whova. I know that AHG is using Whova this year. Although I?m > not in attendance, I?m aware that some accessibility fixes had to be done > via custom JavaScript. > > Any opinions on the Whova accessibility experience will be appreciated. In > particular, if you?re willing to chat with our conference organizers, that > would be great! > > > > *Katherine (Kate) Deibel* *| PhD* > Inclusion & Accessibility Librarian > Syracuse University Libraries > > *T* 315.443.7178 > kndeibel@syr.edu > > 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244 > > Syracuse University > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Tue Nov 17 20:08:02 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Hartford CT: Institute for Community Research hiring Executive Director Message-ID: The Institute for Community Research seeks a new Executive Director. ICR has more than 3 decades of federal and other funding for community based health related research in the U.S. and globally. The position is open immediately. For more information see: incommunityresearch.org/work-with-icr/. Qualified candidates will be required to demonstrate the following: - Ph.D. in social, behavioral, or public health field, with at least 12 years research experience post-degree completion - Evidence of significant experience and expertise in designing and conducting community-based research, engaging community partners in collaborative research endeavors, and disseminating research results to diverse communities and community stakeholders - Track record as Principal Investigator in writing and receiving independent NIH research grant awards or other federal grants that provide indirect costs - Significant research publications in one or more areas of study, including significant publications in peer reviewed scientific journals - Experience directing an independent organization, center, institute, or major community endeavor that involved managing a significant budget and that employed a staff of 10 or more - Preferred qualifications of candidates include: - Current recipient of an NIH or other federal grant award as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator to cover part - of the Director's salary, possibly also that of other ICR staff upon starting the position, plus indirect costs - Mixed methods researcher, or interested in the integration of multiple qualitative and quantitative methodologies - in research designs - Experience with management of a non-profit organization - International research experience as well as research experience in the U.S. Salary: Commensurate with experience; excellent benefits. Email letter of application, CV, and names/contact information of 3 references to: Emily.Marble@icrweb.org or see posted announcement for mailing address. ------------------------------ Jean J, Schensul, Ph.D. Senior Scientist/Founding Director Institute for Community Research Hartford, Ct., 06117 860-2782044 ext 227 ------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Wed Nov 18 21:19:50 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:36 2025 Subject: [Athen] Saturday at 3pm ET: Free webinar on self-directed services Message-ID: This Saturday, Nov 21 at 3pm ET, the Alliance for Citizen Directed Supports is kicking off a new series of webinar meet-n-greet's with members of the self-direction community. These meet-n-greet's are a chance to ask questions and learn about the many complex aspects of starting, managing, and advocating for self-direction. Our featured speaker this Saturday is Caroline Signore. Caroline has been self-directing her supports as a disabled, tetraplegic woman for over 15 years. She has a lot of tips and advice to share about managing a team of support staff/caregivers, building friendships and natural supports, and balancing a demanding career. The webinar is free and ASL-interpreted. *Register now on Zoom! * Learn about Self-Direction from Caroline Signore on November 21, at 3PM ET Join us for a meet-and-greet with our member Caroline Signore on November 21 to learn from her experience with self-directing her supports as a disabled, tetraplegic woman. The webinar is free, and ASL interpreted. She has a lot of tips and advice to share about managing a team of support staff/caregivers, building friendships and natural supports, and balancing a demanding career. She was recently featured in our self-direction spotlight, which you can read on our website . Here?s some reasons to attend: - Are you someone who requires assistance with daily living skills and wonder how to find trustworthy, high caliber people to hire, how to avoid constant staff turnover or burnout? - Are you contemplating managing your own personal care assistance? - Are you interested in reducing the number of hours you require assistance, and need help establishing community supports? - Are you a parent, sibling, friend or the head of an agency who supports people who have extensive daily support needs? - Do you or your family member wants to move out of an aggregate care facility and into a neighborhood? If any of these descriptions fit you, or you have your own questions, register today for our meet-n-greet! REGISTER HERE About Caroline: Caroline is Deputy Director of the Division of Extramural Research, at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In 1996, Caroline Signore had just finished her residency training in obstetrics and gynecology and entered a private practice in the Denver suburbs when she sustained a cervical spinal cord injury in a motor vehicle accident. It was the day after Thanksgiving, and she was 30 years old. Her injury is at the C6-C7 level, which means she is tetraplegic: she has no sensation or motor function of the legs and torso, and limited sensation and function of her arms and hands. She completed inpatient rehabilitation in April of 1997 and since that time has brought in personal care assistants to help with activities of daily living. She has enjoyed the good fortune of independently employing a group of 3 caregivers who have been with her steadily for more than 15 years. Caroline works full time and lives independently in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Register now and join Caroline for a chat on November 21, at 3pm ET. 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DIGITAL LIBRARY APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled developer to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives. This position will be, for the foreseeable future, primarily focused on software development for HathiTrust . Required Qualifications - Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science or related field and three or more years experience, or an equivalent amount of experience and education. - Demonstrated programming skills in a modern programming language. - Experience developing highly interactive, database-driven, user-focused web applications. - Demonstrated group work experience. - Intellectual curiosity and desire to discuss why we develop what we develop. - Willingness to learn. - Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. - Excellent communication skills. - Understands and values diversity and the importance of inclusion as demonstrated through a commitment to apply and incorporate the differences, complexities, and opportunities that diversity brings to an organization. - Ability to perform the work remotely on a regular or temporary basis including maintaining work relationships, overall communication, meetings, training, professional development, etc. ~~ Angelina Zaytsev User Services Librarian HathiTrust University of Michigan Library Pronouns: she/they -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu Tue Nov 24 09:18:12 2020 From: armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu (Deborah Armstrong) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:37 2025 Subject: [Athen] OT: For people struggling with Spanish Message-ID: I was looking for a way to practice understanding more Spanish over the Xmas vacation while sheltering in place and without spending more money! Spanish 4 has been so heavy on grammar I still only understand about 20% of ordinary conversation, 50% of the news and 70% of commercials. I am really eager to be good enough to read children's books and I'm still not there yet! Due to Covid, I'm not riding the bus with Spanish speakers. My sighted friends suggest I watch movies, but I can't read subtitles and there's still too much vocabulary I don't understand. I'm plateaued at this uncomfortable place where beginner material is too basic and regular Spanish is too fast and contains too many unfamiliar words. I remember when I lived in Germany being stuck on this plateau for about two months but I was surrounded by people chatting at me and insisting I interact. Then one day I was standing in a line at a grocery store and suddenly realized without any conscious effort I was following the conversation of the housewives behind me as they complained about husbands and children, discussed meal plans and gossiped about neighbors. It was the most amazing moment of my life how the ability to think in German had crept unnoticed in to my mind! That's what I want to have happen with Spanish! I ran across Destinos, the 1990's Spanish telenovela (soap opera) produced by PBS specifically for learning Spanish and it's a gold mine of ordinary conversation and very easy to follow. Plus it's now free to watch online; previously you had to buy the tapes or wait for it to air on your local station. What makes it particularly useful for someone with a visual or learning disability is that the points of the story line are repeated and summarized multiple times. Also useful for a hearing-impaired person since it is captioned and transcripts are available. There are no English subtitles, but that doesn't matter as the repetition makes it easy to follow. At my level I'm understanding 99%, and I'm guessing a complete beginner would need to watch each episode several times. Even with a little Spanish, watching the action makes it completely understandable. All the educational materials accompanying it though were out of print, but some enterprising person has posted those resources on google drive. This includes transcripts, vocabulary lists, textbook, workbook, answers to exercises, plus all the audiotapes. There are 52 episodes. I recommend this for anyone who is in my situation! The resources are here: https://destinostelenovela.wordpress.com/ and the actual videos (copyrighted free for classroom and personal use) are here: https://www.learner.org/series/destinos-an-introduction-to-spanish/ Wikipedia's entry is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos There are numerous other resources on the web for example flash cards. Some are paid resources, as is much of the online Spanish learning material. But there is a lot of free stuff out there; however, this in my opinion is the most useful one I've found so far. Please share with anyone who wants to practice beginner Spanish over the holidays. --Debee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lydia at autistichoya.com Tue Nov 24 21:13:52 2020 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Mon Jan 13 11:30:37 2025 Subject: [Athen] Oklahoma City University hiring Assistant Director of Disability and Access Services Message-ID: Hi All, I am posting this on behalf of Oklahoma City University, as they are in the process of trying to fill the position of Assistant Director of Disability and Access Services. If you have questions, please direct these to Dr. Talia Carroll (tcarroll@okcu.edu). Otherwise, please submit relevant materials by Sunday 11/29, as phone interviews are expected to commence next week. https://jobs.silkroad.com/OKCU/StaffCareers/jobs/1092 Bonni Alpert, Ed.D Educational Consultant Phone: (413) 530-7404 Website: alpert-consulting.com Assistant Director of Access? Category Professional Support Services Job Location 2501 N Blackwelder Ave, Oklahoma City, OK Tracking Code 2073 Posting Date 9/18/2020 Position Type Full-Time/Regular Position Summary: Oklahoma City University is seeking an experienced leader in disability and access services to support the campus community in its efforts to provide necessary support to students. The Assistant Director for Access serves as the primary individual responsible for coordinating and managing student university disability and access support programs and resources, including assessing student disability accommodation requests, providing direct services to students based on disability, engaging in the interactive process with faculty members in order to facilitate appropriate academic accommodations, maintaining awareness of and determining responses to disability support needs across campus, including workshops and learning opportunities. The Assistant Director is housed within the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and reports to the Vice President, while working closely with other departments including, but not limited to the Library, Housing, Student Affairs, and facilities. Review of applications will begin on Friday, October 2nd. Essential Functions: - Demonstrate an attitude and behavior that reflects the core values and the mission of the university and the department. - Design, develop, and maintain a comprehensive program of services to meet the needs of students with disabilities within federal regulations, currently accepted best practices, available financial resources, and thoughtful practices centering diversity, equity, and inclusion. - Interpret various diagnostic reports including neuropsychological, psychoeducational, clinical assessments, and supporting documentation provided by licensed providers, to determine eligibility Advise student, faculty, staff, administrators, and departments on appropriate and reasonable accommodations. - Create and lead educational and informative workshops on topics focused on access and accessibility. - Provide interpretation and assistance to student, faculty, staff, administrators, and departments in implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitations Act. - Monitor and facilitate alternative testing accommodations - Work closely with Vice President to create and implement policies and advise university departments on up-to-date guidance to revise existing policies. - Oversee and assist the progress of students admitted on probation and students with disabilities. Provide student success resources and guidance to students who may require additional academic support, including development for learning strategies, self-advocacy, organizational skills, time management, and communication skills. - Researches and evaluates best practices and trends in postsecondary accessibility. - Collects, compiles, and analyzes program data to support assessment and other reporting needs. - Participate as a member of committees and councils as needed. - Responsible for high-level, independent decision-making, sometimes including authority to act on Vice President?s behalf. - Serve as a facilitator, resource and collaborator as appropriate for matters related to the ADA and compliance to university offices, including Office of the Provost, General Counsel, Department of Human Resources, Facilities, Housing, and Diversity and Inclusion. - Perform other duties as assigned. Physical Requirements: - Constantly operates a computer and other office machinery. - Constantly visually identifies, observes, and assesses. - Frequently communicates with university constituents. - Frequently remains in a stationary position (standing and/or sitting). - Occasionally moves to accomplish tasks and/or to get from one worksite to another. - Occasionally moves common office materials. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations (in accordance with ADA requirements) may be made, upon request, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Working Conditions: - Work is primarily indoors but requires the incumbent to be in an outdoor environment when traveling between campus buildings or off campus. - Standard office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. - Some off-campus, state and regional travel may be required. - Attendance at some evening and weekend events may be required. - Incumbent will be exposed to frequent noise caused by telephones and office machines. Required Skills Required: - Knowledge of trends, issues, and accepted practices relevant to the position - Demonstrated mastery of Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504 - Strong and quick analytical and problem-solving skills - Excellent interpersonal and communication skills - Ability to adapt and be responsive to student needs - Ability to exhibit a detail-oriented focus and a demonstrated high level of service to faculty and students - Ability to work independently with high-ability for initiative-taking and organization - Ability to concentrate on tasks at hand amid frequent interruptions from phones, students, faculty, and the general public - Ability to maintain strict confidentiality - Excellent computer skills, with proficiency in Office Suite - Highly organized and able to handle multiple projects Preferred: - Familiarity with Accessible Information Management (AIM) platform - Familiarity with higher education contexts and/or ability to learn quickly - Familiarity with universal design - Experience making accommodation decisions at the post-secondary level. - Knowledge of or experience with reviewing requests for housing accommodations and/or emotional support animals in consultation with staff in Housing and Residence Life Required Experience Education: - Required: A bachelor?s degree in a relevant field is required in addition to a minimum of two years of job-related experience working with individuals with disabilities and/or in academic support areas. - Preferred: A master?s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, Counseling, Special Education, Higher Education, Clinical Psychology, Social Work, or related field with emphasis on supporting students with disabilities in post-secondary educational setting. Experience: - Required: A minimum 2 years of job-related experience working with individuals with disabilities is required. - Preferred: 4-6 years of direct or strongly related experience with disability and access services is preferred. A suitable combination of education and experience may be substituted for minimum qualifications. Additional Required Application Materials Cover Letter, List of Professional References, CV or Resume Benefit Eligibility Available at full-time university rates Scheduled Hours University operations hours are 8am to 5pm, Monday through Friday. Evening and weekend hours may be required. APPLY -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sign up for the NDC Listserv Additional Resources from NDC - Free e-learning courses with RID and CRCC professional development credit - Your Questions, Answered list of commonly asked questions from the field - Disability Services Professionals Toolkit and Vocational Rehabilitation Professional Toolkit - Virtual presentations and panels hosted by NDC (live and recorded) - Targeted support from the NDC Help Team *NDC | help team* *help@nationaldeafcenter.org * [image: https://www.nationaldeafcenter.org/] Resources to support institutions during COVID-19 Sign up for the NDC listserv for center updates NDC is a technical assistance and dissemination center jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) #H326D160001. 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