From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Wed Sep 1 07:54:22 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Wed Sep 1 07:54:45 2021 Subject: [Athen] Grammarly and screen readers Message-ID: Hello all, Has anybody tried Grammarly and a screen reader? Do they play nicely together? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Maureen.Bourbeau at unh.edu Wed Sep 1 08:30:18 2021 From: Maureen.Bourbeau at unh.edu (Maureen Bourbeau) Date: Wed Sep 1 08:30:37 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking for LexisNexis publisher contact Message-ID: Does anyone have a contact for LexisNexis? I'm trying to get a couple Law books for a student and I don't find any permissions contact. 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I filled out the ?contact us? webform but have yet to receive a reply. Looking for ISBN 978-1663305374 and ISBN 978-0769851198 Appreciate any help! Maureen Bourbeau (she/her/hers) Assistive Technology Specialist Student Accessibility Services (SAS) 201 Smith Hall, 3 Garrison Avenue Durham, NH 03824 P: 603.862.2400 | F: 603.862.4043 maureen.bourbeau@unh.edu www.unh.edu/sas [cid:image001.png@01D79F27.375383C0] This message is not from a UTC.EDU address. Caution should be used in clicking links and downloading attachments from unknown senders or unexpected email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 15467 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From mmintz at pasadena.edu Wed Sep 1 08:52:30 2021 From: mmintz at pasadena.edu (Mark C. Mintz) Date: Wed Sep 1 08:52:41 2021 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That?s kind of a weirdly worded question, I?m not sure my interpretation of your question is correct. I?m going to rephrase as ?Are there any fields where there are exceptions for providing course materials in an accessible format?? The answer is no. There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes, and I don?t think we can say categorically ?but no accommodations exist for field XYZ?. For example, my wife works in labeling for medical devices and they have an FDA requirement to have RNs do some aspects of their technical writing. Since there is no interaction with patients in this case, there is no reason a disability would preclude them from working in this role. I?m certain that in any given field there are similar jobs. ? When in doubt, look at the industry?s sales force. They need to have the knowledge but don?t need to do the work. Most B2B sales people have at least some formal education in their field in my experience. Alt media guidelines states: In particular, the Section 504 regulations and the regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) contain nearly identical provisions stating that recipients of federal funds and public entities in providing any aid, benefit or service, may not afford a qualified individual with a disability an opportunity to participate that is not as effective as that provided to others. (See 34 C.F.R. ? 104.4 (b)(1)(iii) and 28 C.F.R. ? 35.130(b)(1)(iii).) Based on this interpretation it is my understanding that any coursework needs to be provided in an accessible or accommodated format. What I think you might be getting at is ?where do we draw the line on what is an accommodation we need to provide and what is unreasonable?, or as in the paragraph above, ?who is a qualified individual with a disability??, and I think recent lawsuits and the ICT refresh has found that WCAG 2.0 AA is a reasonable amount of accessibility. I think we can reasonably expect students to be able to access WCAG 2.0 AA unless there is extra accommodation necessary (tactile graphics, sign language interpreting). Even then, I think we need to err on the side of ?This material may not pass WCAG 2.0? and try to accommodate the student, or we must go through all the material carefully to ensure all guidelines are met. If that isn?t what you are looking for, please clarify. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist From: athen-list On Behalf Of Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 6:34 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? 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ATAC Information Security and Compliance Office Information Technology California State University, Dominguez Hills E: smarositz@csudh.edu https://www.csudh.edu/it/security-compliance/ From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:54 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Grammarly and screen readers Hello all, Has anybody tried Grammarly and a screen reader? Do they play nicely together? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Does anyone have an accessibility contact for Cengage? Also, what have been your experiences with this publisher? I am working with a student with a visual impairment in an accounting class. Thanks. -- Laura Lanning: Set Up An Appointment Access Services Specialist for SGPP pronouns: she, her, hers OFFICE 612-728-5120 llanning@smumn.edu Access Services Website, SMU Website SGPP Accommodations SAINT MARY?S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA School of Graduate and Professional Programs 2500 Park Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404 National Center for College Students with Disabilities Mental Health and Crisis Resources -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From solowoniukr at macewan.ca Wed Sep 1 12:56:21 2021 From: solowoniukr at macewan.ca (Russell Solowoniuk) Date: Wed Sep 1 12:56:49 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking for LexisNexis publisher contact In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Maureen, Here is a link to the LexisNexis disability request form... http://www.lexisnexis.com/supp/lawschool/facultyhelp/whotocontact/visr_form.asp Hope this helps, Russell From: athen-list On Behalf Of Maureen Bourbeau Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:30 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Looking for LexisNexis publisher contact EXTERNAL: Use caution. Does anyone have a contact for LexisNexis? I'm trying to get a couple Law books for a student and I don't find any permissions contact. I filled out the "contact us" webform but have yet to receive a reply. Looking for ISBN 978-1663305374 and ISBN 978-0769851198 Appreciate any help! Maureen Bourbeau (she/her/hers) Assistive Technology Specialist Student Accessibility Services (SAS) 201 Smith Hall, 3 Garrison Avenue Durham, NH 03824 P: 603.862.2400 | F: 603.862.4043 maureen.bourbeau@unh.edu www.unh.edu/sas [cid:image001.png@01D79F39.2438BF50] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 15467 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From solowoniukr at macewan.ca Wed Sep 1 13:06:19 2021 From: solowoniukr at macewan.ca (Russell Solowoniuk) Date: Wed Sep 1 13:06:33 2021 Subject: [Athen] Cengage Accessibility In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Laura, Cengage now offers their alt format files through AccessText, or are you looking for an actual contact person? I don?t have a contact person at Cengage, sorry. Thanks, Russell From: athen-list On Behalf Of Laura Lanning Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 1:28 PM To: athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage Accessibility EXTERNAL: Use caution. Does anyone have an accessibility contact for Cengage? Also, what have been your experiences with this publisher? I am working with a student with a visual impairment in an accounting class. Thanks. -- Laura Lanning: Set Up An Appointment Access Services Specialist for SGPP pronouns: she, her, hers OFFICE 612-728-5120 llanning@smumn.edu Access Services Website, SMU Website SGPP Accommodations SAINT MARY?S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA School of Graduate and Professional Programs 2500 Park Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404 National Center for College Students with Disabilities Mental Health and Crisis Resources -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From normajean.brand at hccs.edu Wed Sep 1 15:23:55 2021 From: normajean.brand at hccs.edu (Normajean.Brand) Date: Wed Sep 1 15:24:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] Cengage Accessibility In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Laura, I?m not sure if these people are still at Cengage but here are the names of reps I have worked with in the past. cybele.beckham@cengage.com 855-236-42439 x604 Accounting, Anthropology, Art/Humanities, Astronomy, Biology, Business (General), Business Communications, Business Law, Business Mathematics, Business Statistics, Career and College Success, Cengage Unlimited, Chemistry, College Success, Communications, Computer Science, Computing, Data / Telecommunications, Decision Sciences, Economics, English, English Literature, Environmental Science, Finance, Game Development, Geography, Geology, Graphic Communications, Health and Physical Education, Help Desk / Desktop Support, History, Languages, MIS, Management, Marketing, Mass Communication, Mathematics, Music, Music Technology-PRO, Networking & Security, Nutrition, Oceanography, Office Technology, PC Repair / A+, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Programming, Project Management, Psychology, Religion, Sociology, Statistics, Taxation, Theatre, Web Design & Development halie.snyder@cengage.com Hope this helps. NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? HCCS ? Counseling & Ability Services ? AT@HCCS From: athen-list On Behalf Of Laura Lanning Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 2:28 PM To: athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Cengage Accessibility Does anyone have an accessibility contact for Cengage? Also, what have been your experiences with this publisher? I am working with a student with a visual impairment in an accounting class. Thanks. -- Laura Lanning: Set Up An Appointment Access Services Specialist for SGPP pronouns: she, her, hers OFFICE 612-728-5120 llanning@smumn.edu Access Services Website, SMU Website SGPP Accommodations SAINT MARY?S UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA School of Graduate and Professional Programs 2500 Park Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55404 National Center for College Students with Disabilities Mental Health and Crisis Resources -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From justinr at disability.tamu.edu Thu Sep 2 04:32:51 2021 From: justinr at disability.tamu.edu (Romack, Justin) Date: Thu Sep 2 04:33:35 2021 Subject: [Athen] Recommendations for Bluetooth lapel/lavalier microphones for remote transcription Message-ID: <848418228333468fb45a1d9a144d09b9@disability.tamu.edu> We?ve been working with an increasing number of remote transcription providers over the past year ? and anticipate this will become part of our service model moving forward. I?m curious if anyone has a recommendation for a low-profile Bluetooth microphone that can easily clip on the lapel or shirt? There are far too many options on Amazon? and with the amount of junk that fills up the search results for this kind of tech, I?d rather have a lead on something one of you wonderful people have used. Thanks in advance! ? J - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 mmintz at pasadena.edu Thu Sep 2 07:20:59 2021 From: mmintz at pasadena.edu (Mark C. Mintz) Date: Thu Sep 2 07:21:34 2021 Subject: [Athen] Recommendations for Bluetooth lapel/lavalier microphones for remote transcription In-Reply-To: <848418228333468fb45a1d9a144d09b9@disability.tamu.edu> References: <848418228333468fb45a1d9a144d09b9@disability.tamu.edu> Message-ID: I ordered a sabinetek microphone, speculatively this summer. I?m not willing to call it ?low profile?, and I haven?t used it in a classroom yet, but it seems pretty decent. Sound quality is respectable, and pickup is tremendous. If paired with a phone, the sabinetek app gives you an ASR transcript, so it may have uses beyond simply use with transcribers. It seems easy enough to use. The only problem I?ve had is the cover is incredibly difficult to get on the microphone, but I?m probably just doing it wrong. I?ll play with it when I have a moment, hopefully in the next few weeks. If there is anything specific you want me to test, I?m happy to do so. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist Direct phone number: ?(626) 585-7107 Drop-in help is available for Alternate Media, Assistive Technology and Accessibility. Please email me during business hours Monday through Thursday for availability PCC Stands against hate Kurzweil 3000 is now available to all students! Kurzweil is a reading support web app that will read aloud any text provided ? and has access to a variety of reading support tools like highlighting and notetaking. Try it today! Log into Kurzweil3000 using the ?Sign in with Google? link. DSP&S is using a new Student Management System, and students need to reach out to their teacher-specialist to ensure their documentation is up to date. If you have any questions about the new system, please ask! From: athen-list On Behalf Of Romack, Justin Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 4:33 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Recommendations for Bluetooth lapel/lavalier microphones for remote transcription We?ve been working with an increasing number of remote transcription providers over the past year ? and anticipate this will become part of our service model moving forward. I?m curious if anyone has a recommendation for a low-profile Bluetooth microphone that can easily clip on the lapel or shirt? There are far too many options on Amazon? and with the amount of junk that fills up the search results for this kind of tech, I?d rather have a lead on something one of you wonderful people have used. Thanks in advance! ? J - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Thu Sep 2 09:00:14 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Thu Sep 2 09:00:38 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Grammarly and screen readers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Awesome! Thank you for the feedback. I'll let my student know. 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 Stephen Marositz Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 11:42 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Grammarly and screen readers 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. Hello Robert In a word, no. I've discussed some issues with they're development team a few months ago and all they could say is that they will take my feedback in to consideration for their next release. We have plans to circle back with them in spring of 2022. I hope this helps. Alex Marositz J.D. ATAC Information Security and Compliance Office Information Technology California State University, Dominguez Hills E: smarositz@csudh.edu https://www.csudh.edu/it/security-compliance/ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 7:54 AM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [Athen] Grammarly and screen readers Hello all, Has anybody tried Grammarly and a screen reader? Do they play nicely together? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We can provide alternative access in cases where we have electronic files for these books available at BiblioVault. ... Please go to BiblioVault to determine which books have electronic files. If BiblioVault has an electronic file for the book, the option to ?Request Accessible File? will appear on the book product page. If that option does not appear, BiblioVault cannot supply the file. BiblioVault will fulfill the request as quickly as it can, but we cannot guarantee that we can send the files in less than two weeks. ________________________________ From: athen-list on behalf of Christa Milller Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:39 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Athen] contact language for requesting digital copies from publishers Hi All, Today I'm trying to find an accessible alternative for Paying with Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran by John M. Kinder. It's published by The University of Chicago Press. Currently locked out of the Access Text Network and this publisher doesn't appear to be a partner anyway. Anyone have some good language for "cold calling" publishers to get a digital copy for accessibility? I don't have easy access to a book scanner and guillotine at the moment, but that's next on my list of options. I thought I would try a direct publisher approach first. Direct email to millerch@vt.edu if preferred. Thanks for any thoughts, Christa ___ Virginia Tech e: millerch@vt.edu p: 540-231-2240 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:09:37 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:10:10 2021 Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android Message-ID: Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:11:19 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:11:48 2021 Subject: [Athen] Play Books and TTS Message-ID: Here is another question. I haven't played with Android for a while and do not have my device with me. Does the Play Books app on Android have TTS? If so, can it read .TXT files? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 12:20:43 2021 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:21:40 2021 Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Robert, There are number of interesting apps available for android use. Here is a link from lifehack that compares 10 different apps. Among these 10, Cool Reader offers a free text-to-speech component which the others do not. It might be worth checking out. Here's a link: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-best-ebook-reader-apps-for-android-you-need-know.html 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM Robert Beach wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his > Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if > possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 12:26:00 2021 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:26:58 2021 Subject: [Athen] Play Books and TTS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Here's a link for how to enable the text-to-speech in Google playbooks: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/111935/personal-google-play-books-how-to-make-them-voice-readable 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:12 PM Robert Beach wrote: > Here is another question. I haven?t played with Android for a while and do > not have my device with me. Does the Play Books app on Android have TTS? If > so, can it read .TXT files? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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If you can get the books in epub format I can recommend the Dolphin EasyReader app which has a free version for Android phones (it doesn't support highlighting however, only bookmarks, but it does support text search and ToC navigation) ________________________________ From: athen-list > on behalf of Robert Beach > Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 12:09 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Athen] Reading app for Android Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:27:44 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:27:50 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Wink! I'll check these out. 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 foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:21 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android 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 Robert, There are number of interesting apps available for android use. Here is a link from lifehack that compares 10 different apps. Among these 10, Cool Reader offers a free text-to-speech component which the others do not. It might be worth checking out. Here's a link: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-best-ebook-reader-apps-for-android-you-need-know.html 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM Robert Beach > wrote: Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 _______________________________________________ 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 rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:28:04 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:28:26 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: <004e01d7a0f9$3cf50370$b6df0a50$@montana.com> References: <004e01d7a0f9$3cf50370$b6df0a50$@montana.com> Message-ID: Will do. Thanks. 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 kerscher@montana.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android 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. What about EasyReader by Dolphin? Also, check out the results of testing at epubtest.org Best George From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 1:10 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:35:06 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:35:33 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Play Books and TTS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Did anybody ever tell you, "You're great! " Thanks. 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 foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:26 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Play Books and TTS 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. Here's a link for how to enable the text-to-speech in Google playbooks:https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/111935/personal-google-play-books-how-to-make-them-voice-readable 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:12 PM Robert Beach > wrote: Here is another question. I haven't played with Android for a while and do not have my device with me. Does the Play Books app on Android have TTS? If so, can it read .TXT files? Thanks. 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 _______________________________________________ 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 rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Fri Sep 3 12:42:43 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Fri Sep 3 12:43:15 2021 Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just as a follow up, here is an app I found when I did a little Googling. Has anybody used this app? It sounds promising. Voice Aloud Reader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar 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 Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:10 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 13:40:26 2021 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Fri Sep 3 13:40:53 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Play Books and TTS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: TY! Wink On Fri, Sep 3, 2021, 12:35 PM Robert Beach wrote: > Did anybody ever tell you, ?You?re great! ? Thanks. > > > > > > *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 *foreigntype@gmail.com > *Sent:* Friday, September 3, 2021 2:26 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT]Re: [Athen] Play Books and TTS > > > > *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 .* > > Here's a link for how to enable the text-to-speech in Google playbooks: > https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/111935/personal-google-play-books-how-to-make-them-voice-readable > > > > > 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:12 PM Robert Beach wrote: > > Here is another question. I haven?t played with Android for a while and do > not have my device with me. Does the Play Books app on Android have TTS? If > so, can it read .TXT files? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Robin.Eckelberry at ppcc.edu Fri Sep 3 14:04:22 2021 From: Robin.Eckelberry at ppcc.edu (Eckelberry, Robin) Date: Fri Sep 3 14:04:32 2021 Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I tried using Voice Aloud Reader when I first started 5 years ago, and it would extract all the text from a PDF file into a simple text version. So, it was difficult to navigate compared to the book, especially if there were multiple columns. That was 5 years ago, though. Natural Reader is okay. It gives 20 min of high-quality voices a day before the standard quality voices. Another option is to turn on the Android TTS within the accessibility settings. Voice Dream Reader used to be good, but the developer stopped offering it for Android a year or two ago, unfortunately. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 1:43 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Just as a follow up, here is an app I found when I did a little Googling. Has anybody used this app? It sounds promising. Voice Aloud Reader https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hyperionics.avar 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 Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:10 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Sep 3 15:34:46 2021 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Fri Sep 3 15:35:56 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Keep in mind Robert that the Google playbooks only works when there's Internet and or Wi-Fi access. Doesn't work off-line at all even if you've got the book downloaded. 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:28 PM Robert Beach wrote: > Thanks Wink! I?ll check these out. > > > > > > *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 *foreigntype@gmail.com > *Sent:* Friday, September 3, 2021 2:21 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT]Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android > > > > *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 Robert, > There are number of interesting apps available for android use. Here is a > link from lifehack that compares 10 different apps. Among these 10, Cool > Reader offers a free text-to-speech component which the others do not. It > might be worth checking out. > > > > Here's a link: > https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-best-ebook-reader-apps-for-android-you-need-know.html > > > > > 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM Robert Beach wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his > Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if > possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > *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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Sun Sep 5 19:33:48 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Sun Sep 5 19:34:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Okay, thanks for this. I haven't looked at it in several years. Robert Lee Beach, Assistive Technology Specialist Kansas City Kansas Community College rbeach@kckcc.edu 913-288-7671 I am currently working from home. Please leave a voice message and I'll return your call as soon as possible. Email is probably the quickest way to reach me. From: athen-list On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 5:35 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android Keep in mind Robert that the Google playbooks only works when there's Internet and or Wi-Fi access. Doesn't work off-line at all even if you've got the book downloaded. 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:28 PM Robert Beach > wrote: Thanks Wink! I'll check these out. 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 foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 2:21 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android 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 Robert, There are number of interesting apps available for android use. Here is a link from lifehack that compares 10 different apps. Among these 10, Cool Reader offers a free text-to-speech component which the others do not. It might be worth checking out. Here's a link: https://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/10-best-ebook-reader-apps-for-android-you-need-know.html 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 Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 12:10 PM Robert Beach > wrote: Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list _______________________________________________ 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 rlcole at stanford.edu Tue Sep 7 08:18:33 2021 From: rlcole at stanford.edu (Robin Cole) Date: Tue Sep 7 08:19:11 2021 Subject: [Athen] Open Stax text books Message-ID: <214E7E11-D806-4715-811B-6C6C73779378@stanford.edu> Does anyone have any experience with OpenStax textbooks and screenreaders? We have a blind student that will be using the following two books: Calculus Vol 1 and College Physics. In looking at the books, we are finding really inconsistent experiences. Sometimes JAWS reads the math well ? other times there are massive delays. It skips equations sometimes and reads them others with the same settings. Has anyone worked with these two books with JAWS, NVDA or VoicOver? I?d love to hear about it. Robin Cole | she/her | Alternate Format & Assistive Technology Manager OAE | CONNECT | Office of Accessible Education Stanford University - 563 Salvatierra Walk - Stanford, CA 94305 650-723-0942 The information contained in this email message is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by email, and destroy the original message. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu Tue Sep 7 10:24:59 2021 From: Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu (Stager, Catherine) Date: Tue Sep 7 10:25:19 2021 Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I have been using Moon Plus Reader for years ... low cost pro account or free app that can be customized for display options and tts. I would recommend this interface for dyslexics like myself. It is worth the upgrade. Also has a good night mode. Best, Cath From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 1:10 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Tue Sep 7 10:42:02 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Tue Sep 7 10:42:33 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: Reading app for Android In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for this. I always had this one on my list of reading apps back in the day, but I wasn't sure if it was still around and if it would read EPUBS or not. It's another one that did not come up in my Google search. Just shows Google doesn't know everything. 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 Stager, Catherine Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 12:25 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Reading app for Android 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. I have been using Moon Plus Reader for years ... low cost pro account or free app that can be customized for display options and tts. I would recommend this interface for dyslexics like myself. It is worth the upgrade. Also has a good night mode. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 1:10 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [Athen] Reading app for Android CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hello all, I have a student with Dyslexia who needs to be able to read books on his Android phone. He needs TTS for sure and would like to have highlighting if possible. Do you have any recommendations for this? Thanks. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Robin.Eckelberry at ppcc.edu Tue Sep 7 14:02:31 2021 From: Robin.Eckelberry at ppcc.edu (Eckelberry, Robin) Date: Tue Sep 7 14:03:06 2021 Subject: [Athen] ASL Interpretation on Zoom Message-ID: <5f42b7676b7b4925acdb84b8b4bd8868@ppcc.edu> Hi ATHEN, I am posting this question for our Interpreter Coordinator at Pikes Peak Community College. Instructor recording on ZOOM cut out the interpreters once a screen share is initiated. The response from Zoom was to have the interpreters record from their location then share it with the deaf student. That is not appropriate or reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience that might be helpful? Thank you! 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At the University of Arizona, we encourage faculty to allow students to multi-pin participants and record a local copy of their Zoom meeting https://drc.arizona.edu/instructors/asl-zoom Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: athen-list on behalf of Eckelberry, Robin Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 2:02 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: [EXT][Athen] ASL Interpretation on Zoom External Email Hi ATHEN, I am posting this question for our Interpreter Coordinator at Pikes Peak Community College. Instructor recording on ZOOM cut out the interpreters once a screen share is initiated. The response from Zoom was to have the interpreters record from their location then share it with the deaf student. That is not appropriate or reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience that might be helpful? Thank you! Robin [Pikes Peak Community College Logo, links to website] Robin Eckelberry MS Access Specialist Accessibility Services office 719-502-3325 fax 719-502-3444 main office 719-502-3333 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message from your system. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mintz Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:53 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? That?s kind of a weirdly worded question, I?m not sure my interpretation of your question is correct. I?m going to rephrase as ?Are there any fields where there are exceptions for providing course materials in an accessible format?? The answer is no. There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes, and I don?t think we can say categorically ?but no accommodations exist for field XYZ?. For example, my wife works in labeling for medical devices and they have an FDA requirement to have RNs do some aspects of their technical writing. Since there is no interaction with patients in this case, there is no reason a disability would preclude them from working in this role. I?m certain that in any given field there are similar jobs. ? When in doubt, look at the industry?s sales force. They need to have the knowledge but don?t need to do the work. Most B2B sales people have at least some formal education in their field in my experience. Alt media guidelines states: In particular, the Section 504 regulations and the regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) contain nearly identical provisions stating that recipients of federal funds and public entities in providing any aid, benefit or service, may not afford a qualified individual with a disability an opportunity to participate that is not as effective as that provided to others. (See 34 C.F.R. ? 104.4 (b)(1)(iii) and 28 C.F.R. ? 35.130(b)(1)(iii).) Based on this interpretation it is my understanding that any coursework needs to be provided in an accessible or accommodated format. What I think you might be getting at is ?where do we draw the line on what is an accommodation we need to provide and what is unreasonable?, or as in the paragraph above, ?who is a qualified individual with a disability??, and I think recent lawsuits and the ICT refresh has found that WCAG 2.0 AA is a reasonable amount of accessibility. I think we can reasonably expect students to be able to access WCAG 2.0 AA unless there is extra accommodation necessary (tactile graphics, sign language interpreting). Even then, I think we need to err on the side of ?This material may not pass WCAG 2.0? and try to accommodate the student, or we must go through all the material carefully to ensure all guidelines are met. If that isn?t what you are looking for, please clarify. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 6:34 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Hi Everyone, Are there any exceptions for providing course materials? If so, what are the subjects/disciplines? Or should it be provided regardless? Thank you for your feedback. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hunziker at arizona.edu Tue Sep 7 15:34:12 2021 From: hunziker at arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Tue Sep 7 15:34:43 2021 Subject: [Athen] Fw: Zoom share audio and JAWS issue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, I'm sharing a conversation from the Educause IT Access list since this may be something some of you have encountered and may have feedback on.... Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 3:33 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: Zoom share audio and JAWS issue Hi all, I received a copy of Zoom version 5.6 to test and I'm finding that my JAWS audio shares when I share a screen with computer audio. To stop this from occurring, I changed my JAWS sound card (JAWS, Utilities menu, Sound Card) to be a plugged in set of headphones (either USB or a 3.5 mm jack). When I changed this setting and shared my screen with computer sound via Zoom, my JAWS audio did not come through since Zoom was using the device my computer was using. This meant that I had JAWS in my headset and Video audio coming through on external speakers... It seemed to be working ok? Have others tested this out recently? I'd also be curious if others are using a different method for separating JAWS audio and computer sounds (i.e. a video) on Zoom. Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv on behalf of John Williams Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 8:55 AM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [EXT][ITACCESS] Zoom share audio and JAWS issue External Email Last week we discovered an issue with the latest version of Zoom (5.7.6) and JAWS, so I?m sharing what we found in case anyone else has the same trouble. The person who reported this is an expert JAWS user, so we were able to quickly rule out JAWS and Windows settings as the cause. Previously, they have found teaching with Zoom to be fairly accessible, especially since Zoom improved a11y of polling. However, when this person attempted to lead their first online class of the fall ?21 semester, they realized Zoom started mixing all audio from both soundcards and sharing it to all attendees while screen sharing with computer audio. This caused a major distraction because students were required to closely analyze an audio track synchronized to text, but JAWS was talking over everything during the entire demo. Normally, the separate soundcards allow the instructor to limit JAWS audio to just their earbuds and the rest of the class never hears it. After some troubleshooting, we rolled the user back to the last known version of Zoom they used in the spring where the issue didn?t occur, which was 5.6.0. Sure enough, rolling the version back ?fixed? the problem. However, when they relaunched Zoom later, it automatically updated to the latest version again and the issue returned. One of our campus Zoom admins was able to provide a non-updating version of the installer for version 5.6.0. We?ve reported this issue with 5.7.6 to Zoom support, including video evidence, and last I heard it has been moved to their developers. Hopefully they will apply a bug fix with the next release since we clearly demonstrated that Zoom was the cause of the issue. In the meantime, if anyone else experiences this same issue, please reach out and I can provide you with more specific details about the workaround. Best regards, John A. Williams (he/him) Digital Information Accessibility Coordinator Rice University | Learning Environments 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005 | MS 119 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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We have a Google form to gather this information at https://forms.gle/RVaWTmGGfGp32vmN6. If you would consider completing this form, it will provide us with the best manner to gather these reminiscences. If you would prefer to share your memories via email, please send your note to athenpresident@gmail.com We will be presenting Norm with his award during the ATHEN Annual Meeting in November. Please make sure to send us your messages before the end of October. Thank you, everyone! ATHEN Executive Council Dawn Hunziker ATHEN President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jodie.Hoger at tafensw.edu.au Tue Sep 7 17:26:19 2021 From: Jodie.Hoger at tafensw.edu.au (Jodie Hoger (Jodie Hoger )) Date: Tue Sep 7 17:26:49 2021 Subject: [Athen] Zoom share audio and JAWS issue In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Dawn, I use a USB external sound card with earphones connected and JAWS routed to that sound card. This means I can either listen to the computer sounds including audio/video through the computer speakers or via a headset I have connected directly to the computer. I use one of the earpieces in my left ear for JAWS and the single ear headset and mic on the right ear for talking and hearing computer audio visuals. This has been a game changer in my productivity and lessened the cognitive overload of being in virtual meetings for hours each day. HTH, Jodie Jodie Hoger ? Project Manager DIAP Implementation Education and Training Strategy M +61 437035042 E jodie.hoger@tafensw.edu.au ? ? Education and Training Strategy 60 Beinda St. Bomaderry NSW 2541? https://www.tafensw.edu.au [cid:image001.png@01D7A49C.0F93B1F0] TAFE NSW respectfully acknowledges the traditional custodians of the Country on which we learn and work together, TAFE NSW commits to building relationships, respect and opportunities with Aboriginal Peoples, recognises strength resilience and capacity and respects and acknowledges the Elders past and present. May the ancestors always guide us. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: Wednesday, 8 September 2021 8:34 AM To: ATHEN Subject: [Athen] Fw: Zoom share audio and JAWS issue Hi all, I'm sharing a conversation from the Educause IT Access list since this may be something some of you have encountered and may have feedback on.... Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) > Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 3:33 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: Re: Zoom share audio and JAWS issue Hi all, I received a copy of Zoom version 5.6 to test and I'm finding that my JAWS audio shares when I share a screen with computer audio. To stop this from occurring, I changed my JAWS sound card (JAWS, Utilities menu, Sound Card) to be a plugged in set of headphones (either USB or a 3.5 mm jack). When I changed this setting and shared my screen with computer sound via Zoom, my JAWS audio did not come through since Zoom was using the device my computer was using. This meant that I had JAWS in my headset and Video audio coming through on external speakers... It seemed to be working ok? Have others tested this out recently? I'd also be curious if others are using a different method for separating JAWS audio and computer sounds (i.e. a video) on Zoom. Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > on behalf of John Williams > Sent: Monday, August 30, 2021 8:55 AM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [EXT][ITACCESS] Zoom share audio and JAWS issue External Email Last week we discovered an issue with the latest version of Zoom (5.7.6) and JAWS, so I?m sharing what we found in case anyone else has the same trouble. The person who reported this is an expert JAWS user, so we were able to quickly rule out JAWS and Windows settings as the cause. Previously, they have found teaching with Zoom to be fairly accessible, especially since Zoom improved a11y of polling. However, when this person attempted to lead their first online class of the fall ?21 semester, they realized Zoom started mixing all audio from both soundcards and sharing it to all attendees while screen sharing with computer audio. This caused a major distraction because students were required to closely analyze an audio track synchronized to text, but JAWS was talking over everything during the entire demo. Normally, the separate soundcards allow the instructor to limit JAWS audio to just their earbuds and the rest of the class never hears it. After some troubleshooting, we rolled the user back to the last known version of Zoom they used in the spring where the issue didn?t occur, which was 5.6.0. Sure enough, rolling the version back ?fixed? the problem. However, when they relaunched Zoom later, it automatically updated to the latest version again and the issue returned. One of our campus Zoom admins was able to provide a non-updating version of the installer for version 5.6.0. We?ve reported this issue with 5.7.6 to Zoom support, including video evidence, and last I heard it has been moved to their developers. Hopefully they will apply a bug fix with the next release since we clearly demonstrated that Zoom was the cause of the issue. In the meantime, if anyone else experiences this same issue, please reach out and I can provide you with more specific details about the workaround. Best regards, John A. Williams (he/him) Digital Information Accessibility Coordinator Rice University | Learning Environments 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005 | MS 119 ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00c401d7a468$875a6000$960f2000$@pubcom.com> Keep in mind that an accessible file is not only accessible for A T, but for all technologies whether it?s used by someone with a disability or not. Example: Adobe?s newest iphone app for Acrobat Reader. When using its Liquid Mode, it breaks apart a complex design layout and converts it into something like a scrolling EPUB. Still in beta testing mode, but it?s one example of the industry trying to un-PDF a PDF file for use on mobile. But it works best when the file is accessible with good reading orders (both the tag R O and the architectural R O). ? ? ? 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 Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 6:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Hi Mark, You?ve hit the nail right on the head. I appreciate the reminder. Coursework and materials are required to be accessible from the get go, as much as possible, and if full accessibility can?t be met then accommodation will be provided. Your confirmation that ?There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes? can back up my argument that a course should be prepared for students regardless of whether they have a disability or not. People may need the knowledge in order to fill a role in a industry, even if they may not be doing the work. Thank you again for your response. Khoa From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Mark C. Mintz Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:53 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? That?s kind of a weirdly worded question, I?m not sure my interpretation of your question is correct. I?m going to rephrase as ?Are there any fields where there are exceptions for providing course materials in an accessible format?? The answer is no. There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes, and I don?t think we can say categorically ?but no accommodations exist for field XYZ?. For example, my wife works in labeling for medical devices and they have an FDA requirement to have RNs do some aspects of their technical writing. Since there is no interaction with patients in this case, there is no reason a disability would preclude them from working in this role. I?m certain that in any given field there are similar jobs. ? When in doubt, look at the industry?s sales force. They need to have the knowledge but don?t need to do the work. Most B2B sales people have at least some formal education in their field in my experience. Alt media guidelines states: In particular, the Section 504 regulations and the regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) contain nearly identical provisions stating that recipients of federal funds and public entities in providing any aid, benefit or service, may not afford a qualified individual with a disability an opportunity to participate that is not as effective as that provided to others. (See 34 C.F.R. ? 104.4 (b)(1)(iii) and 28 C.F.R. ? 35.130(b)(1)(iii).) Based on this interpretation it is my understanding that any coursework needs to be provided in an accessible or accommodated format. What I think you might be getting at is ?where do we draw the line on what is an accommodation we need to provide and what is unreasonable?, or as in the paragraph above, ?who is a qualified individual with a disability??, and I think recent lawsuits and the ICT refresh has found that WCAG 2.0 AA is a reasonable amount of accessibility. I think we can reasonably expect students to be able to access WCAG 2.0 AA unless there is extra accommodation necessary (tactile graphics, sign language interpreting). Even then, I think we need to err on the side of ?This material may not pass WCAG 2.0? and try to accommodate the student, or we must go through all the material carefully to ensure all guidelines are met. If that isn?t what you are looking for, please clarify. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 6:34 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Hi Everyone, Are there any exceptions for providing course materials? If so, what are the subjects/disciplines? Or should it be provided regardless? Thank you for your feedback. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mdctls at rit.edu Wed Sep 8 05:16:37 2021 From: mdctls at rit.edu (Monica Cormier) Date: Wed Sep 8 05:17:14 2021 Subject: [Athen] ASL Interpretation on Zoom In-Reply-To: References: <5f42b7676b7b4925acdb84b8b4bd8868@ppcc.edu> Message-ID: <71e8c289c2904fe6a5f6bd6f7fce0959@ex04mail02a.ad.rit.edu> If the host has their recording settings set to record to the cloud and to record speaker view (this setting must be changed in the host's Zoom web portal), the speaker view video file will show the spotlit person. You can only spotlight one person at a time for this to work. Multi spotlight returns the recording to the actual speaker. Spotlighting also disables pinning, but participants can choose gallery view in the upper right corner of their screen to stop spotlighting the interpreter. RIT has documentation for what is working on our campus. Monica Monica Cormier Instructional Technologist Rochester Institute of Technology Innovative Learning Institute 90 Lomb Memorial Drive, WAL 05-A662 Rochester, NY 14623-5603 www.rit.edu/tls CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: The information transmitted, including attachments, is intended only for the person(s) or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and destroy any copies of this information. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 5:18 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] ASL Interpretation on Zoom Hi Robin, The instructor needs to change their recording settings to include both the screen share and gallery view - but depending on how big the class is, this may not be helpful. At the University of Arizona, we encourage faculty to allow students to multi-pin participants and record a local copy of their Zoom meeting https://drc.arizona.edu/instructors/asl-zoom Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 ________________________________ From: athen-list > on behalf of Eckelberry, Robin > Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 2:02 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: [EXT][Athen] ASL Interpretation on Zoom External Email Hi ATHEN, I am posting this question for our Interpreter Coordinator at Pikes Peak Community College. Instructor recording on ZOOM cut out the interpreters once a screen share is initiated. The response from Zoom was to have the interpreters record from their location then share it with the deaf student. That is not appropriate or reasonable. Does anyone have any suggestions or experience that might be helpful? Thank you! Robin [Pikes Peak Community College Logo, links to website] Robin Eckelberry MS Access Specialist Accessibility Services office 719-502-3325 fax 719-502-3444 main office 719-502-3333 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message from your system. Thank you for your cooperation and assistance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From mmintz at pasadena.edu Wed Sep 8 09:39:19 2021 From: mmintz at pasadena.edu (Mark C. Mintz) Date: Wed Sep 8 09:39:29 2021 Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? In-Reply-To: <00c401d7a468$875a6000$960f2000$@pubcom.com> References: <00c401d7a468$875a6000$960f2000$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: I heard one person (a keynote at OTC?18) talk about Mobile First Education, and it really stuck with me. Consider that more than 50% of students use their cell phone to access online coursework. Organizing an online class, or homework material in a traditional class, so it is usable on a cell phone benefits many more students than typical accessibility. Accessible markup allows software to reflow content, so it is usable on small screens, meaning faculty are serving our need while focusing on a larger population. Most people who work get 10 minute breaks. Many people commute by mass transit, and everyone ends up waiting for random things in places where they wouldn?t necessarily have access to a computer or a textbook (picking up kids, waiting for lunch at restaurant, etc). If coursework is designed so students can estimate how long it will take to do a task (give a ?reading time estimate?, video length etc), is chunked for micro-study sessions, and is easy to use on a phone, it opens up students to interact with class more frequently improving understanding and retention. Students can accomplish a little classwork when they would otherwise be zoning on social media or whatever they do to pass the time. It is more equitable to working adults, and it has accessibility as a requirement to serve a larger population of students. I wish that every instructor would have some 5 minute readings built into their coursework, and maybe some reinforcement videos/readings that are optional but are easy to jump into and out of when you have a spare minute. This focus on mobile access would make the class better for all students, and the underpinnings of UDL and accessibility are at the very heart of the approach. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist From: athen-list On Behalf Of chagnon@pubcom.com Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 9:18 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Keep in mind that an accessible file is not only accessible for A T, but for all technologies whether it?s used by someone with a disability or not. Example: Adobe?s newest iphone app for Acrobat Reader. When using its Liquid Mode, it breaks apart a complex design layout and converts it into something like a scrolling EPUB. Still in beta testing mode, but it?s one example of the industry trying to un-PDF a PDF file for use on mobile. But it works best when the file is accessible with good reading orders (both the tag R O and the architectural R O). ? ? ? 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 Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, September 7, 2021 6:34 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Hi Mark, You?ve hit the nail right on the head. I appreciate the reminder. Coursework and materials are required to be accessible from the get go, as much as possible, and if full accessibility can?t be met then accommodation will be provided. Your confirmation that ?There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes? can back up my argument that a course should be prepared for students regardless of whether they have a disability or not. People may need the knowledge in order to fill a role in a industry, even if they may not be doing the work. Thank you again for your response. Khoa From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Mark C. Mintz Sent: Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:53 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? That?s kind of a weirdly worded question, I?m not sure my interpretation of your question is correct. I?m going to rephrase as ?Are there any fields where there are exceptions for providing course materials in an accessible format?? The answer is no. There may be reasons that persons with disabilities are taking any classes, and I don?t think we can say categorically ?but no accommodations exist for field XYZ?. For example, my wife works in labeling for medical devices and they have an FDA requirement to have RNs do some aspects of their technical writing. Since there is no interaction with patients in this case, there is no reason a disability would preclude them from working in this role. I?m certain that in any given field there are similar jobs. ? When in doubt, look at the industry?s sales force. They need to have the knowledge but don?t need to do the work. Most B2B sales people have at least some formal education in their field in my experience. Alt media guidelines states: In particular, the Section 504 regulations and the regulations implementing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) contain nearly identical provisions stating that recipients of federal funds and public entities in providing any aid, benefit or service, may not afford a qualified individual with a disability an opportunity to participate that is not as effective as that provided to others. (See 34 C.F.R. ? 104.4 (b)(1)(iii) and 28 C.F.R. ? 35.130(b)(1)(iii).) Based on this interpretation it is my understanding that any coursework needs to be provided in an accessible or accommodated format. What I think you might be getting at is ?where do we draw the line on what is an accommodation we need to provide and what is unreasonable?, or as in the paragraph above, ?who is a qualified individual with a disability??, and I think recent lawsuits and the ICT refresh has found that WCAG 2.0 AA is a reasonable amount of accessibility. I think we can reasonably expect students to be able to access WCAG 2.0 AA unless there is extra accommodation necessary (tactile graphics, sign language interpreting). Even then, I think we need to err on the side of ?This material may not pass WCAG 2.0? and try to accommodate the student, or we must go through all the material carefully to ensure all guidelines are met. If that isn?t what you are looking for, please clarify. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Khoa Pham Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2021 6:34 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Accessibility Exceptions? Hi Everyone, Are there any exceptions for providing course materials? If so, what are the subjects/disciplines? Or should it be provided regardless? Thank you for your feedback. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lgreco at berkeley.edu Wed Sep 8 11:53:48 2021 From: lgreco at berkeley.edu (Lucy GRECO) Date: Wed Sep 8 11:54:47 2021 Subject: [Athen] Fwd: axe-con 2022 registration and call for speakers are now open! 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Message-ID: Anyone have any recommendations for recording audio on Android that has a simple share to OneNote functionality? Or even email so the student could then just drop it into OneNote? OneNote for Android was my original plan, but found out yesterday you can only record 3 minutes of audio at a time on the mobile app. Glean doesn't support an export audio, we are trying Sonocent, but since that is eventually going away, want to make sure we have a backup. OtterAI was my next thought. It looks like you can record unlimited audio, the limits are just for the transcription, but wondering if anyone can confirm that or if I'm reading things wrong. Any other Android recording suggestions? I've downloaded a couple and they all seem about the same, but that time of year where I don't have time for a lot of app testing. Thanks! 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Leo Buscaglia From: athen-list On Behalf Of Keith Kolander Sent: Wednesday, September 8, 2021 10:39 AM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Respondus Lockdown browser Hi, If anybody is using the Respondus Lockdown browser, do you have any luck getting a screen reader to work with it? It does not work with Windows Narrator or NVDA. (The arrow keys do not work with Narrator. It does not work to highlight a section or sentence to read. You can mouse over a question with NVDA and it will read the question, but it won't read the answers in a multiple choice question. Very sporadic at best.) They claim on their website that those work with it. Keith Keith Kolander Adaptive Technology Specialist St. Charles Community College Cottleville, MO 63376 kkolander@stchas.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu Fri Sep 10 12:23:49 2021 From: Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu (Stager, Catherine) Date: Fri Sep 10 12:24:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I still use the old school Tape-a-Talk interface on my android... can save the .wav to cloud locations etc. Could set up to send to One Drive... I also get text displayed with my playback when LiveTranscribe function (settings>accessibility>liveTranscribe) is enabled. AudioNote and Google Keep may also be good options to consider. Best regards, Cath Catherine M. Stager Assistive Technology Specialist Catherine.Stager@frontrange.edu (720) 336-1245 [Front Range Community College - Boulder County Campus] Disability Support Services - Assistive Technology Check out our Getting Started Guides for At Home Support! https://bit.ly/GettingStartedGuidesOverview Create Inclusive E-mail and Materials https://bit.ly/inclusive-checklist From: athen-list On Behalf Of Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 10:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Anyone have any recommendations for recording audio on Android that has a simple share to OneNote functionality? Or even email so the student could then just drop it into OneNote? OneNote for Android was my original plan, but found out yesterday you can only record 3 minutes of audio at a time on the mobile app. Glean doesn't support an export audio, we are trying Sonocent, but since that is eventually going away, want to make sure we have a backup. OtterAI was my next thought. It looks like you can record unlimited audio, the limits are just for the transcription, but wondering if anyone can confirm that or if I'm reading things wrong. Any other Android recording suggestions? I've downloaded a couple and they all seem about the same, but that time of year where I don't have time for a lot of app testing. Thanks! Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 18481 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From ecmatson at uidaho.edu Fri Sep 10 13:09:22 2021 From: ecmatson at uidaho.edu (Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu)) Date: Fri Sep 10 13:09:55 2021 Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks Catherine! So in looking at those apps and reviews, I came across an article about Microsoft's new "Quick Capture" feature on the Android app. It's basically Microsoft's version of OtterAI, and since the student is using OneNote for most things, I things, I think we're gonna try that. Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:24 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? I still use the old school Tape-a-Talk interface on my android... can save the .wav to cloud locations etc. Could set up to send to One Drive... I also get text displayed with my playback when LiveTranscribe function (settings>accessibility>liveTranscribe) is enabled. AudioNote and Google Keep may also be good options to consider. Best regards, Cath Catherine M. Stager Assistive Technology Specialist Catherine.Stager@frontrange.edu (720) 336-1245 [Front Range Community College - Boulder County Campus] Disability Support Services - Assistive Technology Check out our Getting Started Guides for At Home Support! https://bit.ly/GettingStartedGuidesOverview Create Inclusive E-mail and Materials https://bit.ly/inclusive-checklist From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 10:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Anyone have any recommendations for recording audio on Android that has a simple share to OneNote functionality? Or even email so the student could then just drop it into OneNote? OneNote for Android was my original plan, but found out yesterday you can only record 3 minutes of audio at a time on the mobile app. Glean doesn't support an export audio, we are trying Sonocent, but since that is eventually going away, want to make sure we have a backup. OtterAI was my next thought. It looks like you can record unlimited audio, the limits are just for the transcription, but wondering if anyone can confirm that or if I'm reading things wrong. Any other Android recording suggestions? I've downloaded a couple and they all seem about the same, but that time of year where I don't have time for a lot of app testing. Thanks! Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 18481 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu Mon Sep 13 08:07:54 2021 From: Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu (Kluesner, Bryon) Date: Mon Sep 13 08:08:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] Canvas exam Message-ID: Hi folks, Has anyone had success with having Kurzweil read a Canvas exam? Thanks, Bryon Bryon Kluesner RhD, ATAC Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Member of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmintz at pasadena.edu Mon Sep 13 08:18:53 2021 From: mmintz at pasadena.edu (Mark C. Mintz) Date: Mon Sep 13 08:19:24 2021 Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for mentioning that, it had somehow escaped my notice. Great to have another option for ASR notetaking. Too bad it doesn?t allow you to embed directly into onenote. Hopefully Microsoft will do that soon. Mark Mintz (he/him/his) Assistive Technology Specialist Direct phone number: ?(626) 585-7107 Drop-in help is available for Alternate Media, Assistive Technology and Accessibility. Please email me during business hours Monday through Thursday for availability PCC Stands against hate Kurzweil 3000 is now available to all students! Kurzweil is a reading support web app that will read aloud any text provided ? and has access to a variety of reading support tools like highlighting and notetaking. Try it today! Log into Kurzweil3000 using the ?Sign in with Google? link. DSP&S is using a new Student Management System, and students need to reach out to their teacher-specialist to ensure their documentation is up to date. If you have any questions about the new system, please ask! From: athen-list On Behalf Of Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 1:09 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? Thanks Catherine! So in looking at those apps and reviews, I came across an article about Microsoft?s new ?Quick Capture? feature on the Android app. It?s basically Microsoft?s version of OtterAI, and since the student is using OneNote for most things, I things, I think we?re gonna try that. Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 12:24 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? I still use the old school Tape-a-Talk interface on my android? can save the .wav to cloud locations etc. Could set up to send to One Drive? I also get text displayed with my playback when LiveTranscribe function (settings>accessibility>liveTranscribe) is enabled. AudioNote and Google Keep may also be good options to consider. Best regards, Cath Catherine M. Stager Assistive Technology Specialist Catherine.Stager@frontrange.edu (720) 336-1245 [Front Range Community College - Boulder County Campus] Disability Support Services - Assistive Technology Check out our Getting Started Guides for At Home Support! https://bit.ly/GettingStartedGuidesOverview Create Inclusive E-mail and Materials https://bit.ly/inclusive-checklist From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 10:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [Athen] Audio recording Android - save to OneNote? CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Anyone have any recommendations for recording audio on Android that has a simple share to OneNote functionality? Or even email so the student could then just drop it into OneNote? OneNote for Android was my original plan, but found out yesterday you can only record 3 minutes of audio at a time on the mobile app. Glean doesn?t support an export audio, we are trying Sonocent, but since that is eventually going away, want to make sure we have a backup. OtterAI was my next thought. It looks like you can record unlimited audio, the limits are just for the transcription, but wondering if anyone can confirm that or if I?m reading things wrong. Any other Android recording suggestions? I?ve downloaded a couple and they all seem about the same, but that time of year where I don?t have time for a lot of app testing. Thanks! Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 18481 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From kaela.parks at pcc.edu Mon Sep 13 08:24:41 2021 From: kaela.parks at pcc.edu (Kaela Parks) Date: Mon Sep 13 08:25:19 2021 Subject: [Athen] Portland Community College is Recruiting! Message-ID: Greetings, Apologies for the cross posting - just want to be sure folks know that Portland Community College is recruiting for an Accessible Technology Manager. The successful candidate will be joining a strong team of committed professionals, serving a large community across multiple campuses. Situated in the beautiful pacific northwest, PCC has a rich history of opening doors of opportunity to higher education. *Accessible Technology Manager* This position was created by our Accessible Digital Environment Committee and reports to our Director of Disability Services. The manager will supervise the work of our tech review coordinator and our alternate media coordinator as well as our techs who provide AT training, document remediation, captioning, tactile graphic production, and audio description. This position would be able to engage in most duties remotely, and any on-site activity would be primarily at our Sylvania campus. The best consideration date is 9/21. Accessible Technology Manager posting -- Kaela Parks (she/her/hers) *Book a meeting with me * SY CC 260, Ph. 971.722.4868 Portland Community College Director, Disability Services www.pcc.edu/resources/disability Visit our Virtual Lobby Monday - Thursday 10am to 2pm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu Mon Sep 13 08:42:21 2021 From: armstrongdeborah at fhda.edu (Deborah Armstrong) Date: Mon Sep 13 08:42:30 2021 Subject: [Athen] New bookstore manager and alt media concerns Message-ID: We got a notice in part reading: Follett Higher Education Group will begin operating the Bookstore online on Oct. 21, and plans to reopen the physical store in the RSS building when more students are back on campus. The link for this vendor is here: https://highered.follett.com/ Has anyone worked with this provider before? Is it easy to get booklists from them so I know what books my students will need each quarter? I've had issues with our current bookstore, locally managed because they like to keep the book list a secret so students won't go buying their books from cheaper sources. They have been tasked to be a profit center! This was their justification for not sharing the booklist. Don't get me started - the idea that a college bookstore needs to turn a profit is crazy and unfair to students IMOH! It's supposed to be the student's responsibility to provide textbook information to me, but often they simply don't know until the class begins. Right now, one of our instructors has still not decided on her textbook though our Fall quarter begins next week! --Debee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Bryon Bryon Kluesner RhD, ATAC Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Member of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hunziker at arizona.edu Mon Sep 13 11:42:14 2021 From: hunziker at arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Mon Sep 13 11:42:28 2021 Subject: [Athen] ServiceNow Accessibility Message-ID: Hi all - Happy Monday! Is anyone working with ServiceNow around accessibility of their application? If so, would you like to collaborate - I'm creating a report of some issues I've discovered on our instance and wondered if anyone has seen the same issues... 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Digital Accessibility Analyst, Sr. Disability Resources PO Box 5633 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 928-523-6042 Northern Arizona University sits at the base of the San Francisco Peaks, on homelands sacred to Native Americans throughout the region. We honor their past, present, and future generations, who have lived here for millennia and will forever call this place home. From: "Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)" Reply-To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Date: Monday, September 13, 2021 at 11:42 AM To: "athen-list@u.washington.edu" Subject: [Athen] ServiceNow Accessibility Hi all ? Happy Monday! Is anyone working with ServiceNow around accessibility of their application? If so, would you like to collaborate ? I?m creating a report of some issues I?ve discovered on our instance and wondered if anyone has seen the same issues? 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Take care, Doug Subject: [N.O.A.T.] Re: You Are Invited - LEARNING TO USE JAWS WITHOUT SIGHT: A SIGHTED LIBRARIAN?S JOURNEY - N.O.A.T. Webinar - 24 September 2021 @ 1:30pm Eastern A reminder to register for our upcoming webinar on Friday, September 24, 2021 at 1:30pm Eastern. Don't miss out - Join The Network of Assistive Technologists as we welcome MARK WEILER, Web & User Experience Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University More details about this webinar "LEARNING TO USE JAWS WITHOUT SIGHT: A SIGHTED LIBRARIAN?S JOURNEY" are noted below... See you on the 24th! Take care, Doug Mantle, Founder | The Network of Assistive Technologists www.NOAT.ca | info@NOAT.ca On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 8:00 AM Network of Assistive Technologists > wrote: Good day! Please join us for our upcoming webinar... On Friday, September 24, 2021 at 1:30pm Eastern, join The Network of Assistive Technologists as we welcome MARK WEILER, Web & User Experience Librarian at Wilfrid Laurier University LEARNING TO USE JAWS WITHOUT SIGHT: A SIGHTED LIBRARIAN?S JOURNEY How can a sighted person learn to use JAWS while blindfolded? To better understand some of the obstacles faced by blind screen reader users in post-secondary education, a Wilfrid Laurier University librarian has been training to use JAWS without his sight. In this session, you?ll hear about the phases in this challenging and wonderful journey. It has involved a lot of adaptions to help reduce reliance on the visual interfaces and to recognize the aural ones. Adaptions include a textured keyboard, special maps of the application, and even Super Mario Brothers sound effects! Two conclusions. First, with education and practice, sighted people can learn to use screen readers without their sight. Second, given the accelerating role of technology, it?s important that we unite in demanding that our digital, educational ecosystem is free of obstacles for blind screen reader users. For more details and to register, please visit the N.O.A.T. Events Website. We look forward to seeing you online Friday, September 24, 2021 at 1:30pm Eastern If you have any questions, please reach out. Take care! Doug Mantle, Founder | The Network of Assistive Technologists www.NOAT.ca | info@NOAT.ca [https://www.kings.uwo.ca/kings/assets/Image/email/accessibility-counselling.png] King?s University College is committed to accessibility for persons with disabilities. Please contact us if you have any particular accommodation requirements or require information in an alternate format. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: The contents of this communication, including any attachment(s), are confidential and may be privileged. 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The company has not been consistent in including accessibility as part of their design and dev process and we have seen problems with new features lacking accessibility as well as existing fixes getting rolled back when updated . It has been frustrating to see their staff get the information they need but not have the push from their management to improve their process to validate internally before release. More of their higher ed customers need to push them hard on this topic. Please join the effort :) -*- Dan On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) < hunziker@arizona.edu> wrote: > Hi all ? Happy Monday! > > > > Is anyone working with ServiceNow around accessibility of their > application? If so, would you like to collaborate ? I?m creating a report > of some issues I?ve discovered on our instance and wondered if anyone has > seen the same issues? > > > > Dawn > > > > Dawn Hunziker > > Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources > > The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu > > drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu > > 520-626-9409 > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/ olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Thu Sep 16 06:26:08 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Thu Sep 16 06:26:38 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. Also try some color drop out techniques. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book 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. Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bossley.5 at osu.edu Thu Sep 16 06:28:15 2021 From: bossley.5 at osu.edu (Bossley, Peter A.) Date: Thu Sep 16 06:28:46 2021 Subject: [Athen] ServiceNow Accessibility In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I recently got a call from a head hunter about a global head of accessibility position at Service Now, so I hope that is a sign that they are taking this more seriously now. But I agree with what Dan says below. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Dan Comden Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 4:32 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] ServiceNow Accessibility Hi Dawn, We've been engaging ServiceNow with respect to accessibility for many years now. We are fortunate to have a service owner on our campus who has helped push for improvements. Despite intensive work, including having some of their devs and designers receive in-person on-site training multiple times, the application still can be difficult and confusing. The company has not been consistent in including accessibility as part of their design and dev process and we have seen problems with new features lacking accessibility as well as existing fixes getting rolled back when updated . It has been frustrating to see their staff get the information they need but not have the push from their management to improve their process to validate internally before release. More of their higher ed customers need to push them hard on this topic. Please join the effort :) -*- Dan On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) > wrote: Hi all ? Happy Monday! Is anyone working with ServiceNow around accessibility of their application? If so, would you like to collaborate ? I?m creating a report of some issues I?ve discovered on our instance and wondered if anyone has seen the same issues? Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -- -*- Dan Comden danc@uw.edu Access Technology Center www.uw.edu/itconnect/accessibility/atl/ University of Washington UW Information Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kkolander at stchas.edu Thu Sep 16 06:44:15 2021 From: kkolander at stchas.edu (Keith Kolander) Date: Thu Sep 16 06:44:35 2021 Subject: [Athen] Canvas exam In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The Read the Web Chrome extension works. Keith Keith Kolander Adaptive Technology Specialist St. Charles Community College Cottleville, MO 63376 636 922-8492 From: athen-list On Behalf Of Kluesner, Bryon Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 10:08 AM To: 'athen-list@u.washington.edu' Subject: [Athen] Canvas exam CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the college. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hi folks, Has anyone had success with having Kurzweil read a Canvas exam? Thanks, Bryon Bryon Kluesner RhD, ATAC Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Member of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From adwershing at pstcc.edu Thu Sep 16 06:55:51 2021 From: adwershing at pstcc.edu (Wershing, Alice D.) Date: Thu Sep 16 06:56:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] [External] Re: [EXT] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Depending on the settings on the scanner, there may be some lighting options. This was an issue many years ago when scanning books first began. If you can get a preview of the text before scanning in the settings, that might help. Alice Wershing Alice D. Wershing, M.Ed., A.T.P., C.P.A.C.C. Disability Services, Technology Specialist Pellissippi State Community College 865-694-6751 865-539-7699 (fax) Schedule a training East TN Region Accessibility Specialist Tenessee Board of Regents-TN eCampus PSCC Access for All Blog PSCC Accessible Format Facebook Page (PSCC-Disability Services) PSCC Access4All Twitter Feed (@Access4allPSCC) From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:26 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [External] Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book CAUTION: This email originated from outside of Pellissippi State. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. Also try some color drop out techniques. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book 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. Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rspangler1 at udayton.edu Thu Sep 16 07:05:20 2021 From: rspangler1 at udayton.edu (Robert Spangler) Date: Thu Sep 16 07:05:49 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device myself. Thanks for the answers thus far. Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach wrote: > You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. > Also try some color drop out techniques. > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book > > > > *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 .* > > Hello, > > > > I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My > student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine > that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a > lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 > DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What > other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or > any of its components is strictly prohibited. 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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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device myself. Thanks for the answers thus far. Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach > wrote: You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. Also try some color drop out techniques. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book 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. Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. 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Thanks, Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:22 AM Robert Beach wrote: > Are you using Capture Perfect by any chance? If so, I can tell you exactly > where to find the color drop out settings. If you are using some other > program to capture the scan, I don?t know where the settings may be. It > will also depend on the scanner being used. > > > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:05 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book > > > > I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my > student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is > challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device > myself. > > > > Thanks for the answers thus far. > > > Robert > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach wrote: > > You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. > Also try some color drop out techniques. > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book > > > > *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 .* > > Hello, > > > > I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My > student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine > that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a > lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 > DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What > other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or > any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > email in error, please "reply" to the sender. > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. 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For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/ olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbeach at KCKCC.EDU Thu Sep 16 08:22:13 2021 From: rbeach at KCKCC.EDU (Robert Beach) Date: Thu Sep 16 08:22:37 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Capture Perfect is the software that comes with Cannon scanners. With the system you are using, I'm not sure you can do color drop out, but it will probably be in the scanner settings since there is no software connecting the scanner to a computer. At least there isn't with our Konica Minolta scanners. We use the Cannon for alt text production scanning. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:53 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book I assumed you meant that I would be setting the options on the scanner. It's a Konica Minolta. Currently though it's out of commission and IT is looking into it. Just to be clear, though, we should be able to set the color settings and such on the scanner itself? Also, if the text is gray, I don't see how the scanner can make it black. What is Capture Perfect? Thanks, Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:22 AM Robert Beach > wrote: Are you using Capture Perfect by any chance? If so, I can tell you exactly where to find the color drop out settings. If you are using some other program to capture the scan, I don't know where the settings may be. It will also depend on the scanner being used. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device myself. Thanks for the answers thus far. Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach > wrote: You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. Also try some color drop out techniques. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book 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. Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. 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For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From athenpresident at gmail.com Thu Sep 16 08:58:04 2021 From: athenpresident at gmail.com (ATHEN President) Date: Thu Sep 16 08:58:29 2021 Subject: [Athen] Fwd: Norm Coombs - ATHEN Recognition - share your memories! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, A reminder to leave a note for Norm. Happy Thursday!! Dawn Hunziker ATHEN President ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: ATHEN President Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 4:29 PM Subject: Norm Coombs - ATHEN Recognition - share your memories! To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Hello Everyone, At this time we are gathering information so that we can provide Norm Coombs with a Lifetime Achievement Award from ATHEN. We would truly appreciate any memories or reminiscences you may have regarding working with Norm so these may be added to the document presented with the Award that he shall receive in November. This will allow us to provide a more complete picture of his contributions to the field of assistive technology over the years. We have a Google form to gather this information at https://forms.gle/RVaWTmGGfGp32vmN6. If you would consider completing this form, it will provide us with the best manner to gather these reminiscences. If you would prefer to share your memories via email, please send your note to athenpresident@gmail.com We will be presenting Norm with his award during the ATHEN Annual Meeting in November. Please make sure to send us your messages before the end of October. Thank you, everyone! ATHEN Executive Council Dawn Hunziker ATHEN President -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From WHITEPH15 at ECU.EDU Thu Sep 16 12:23:55 2021 From: WHITEPH15 at ECU.EDU (White, Phillip Burton) Date: Thu Sep 16 12:24:04 2021 Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs Message-ID: I first meet Norm when he was a History professor with RIT at the CSUN conference. This was back in the 1990's. I moved out to California later and he became the head of Equal Access for Software for Instruction (EASI -- a spinoff from EDUCAUSE). In southern California there were a non-formal group meeting with Cal Pol Pomono, Cal State Fullerton, CSULA, and Cal State Long Beach having quarterly meetings. When Norm retire he came out to southern Cal, and we invited him to come give us updates on EASI. He, of course, wrote a book on assistive technology. We called our group even before he came out "West Coast EASI." Norm was always learning and bring ideas to the group and EASI . We know that he provided great leadership to EASI, and he was a delight to have at our group meetings, which eventually expanded to most of the school in the SoCal area. Phillip White Accessibility Consultant East Carolina University Whiteph15@ecu.edu 252-737-5258 From rspangler1 at udayton.edu Thu Sep 16 13:20:00 2021 From: rspangler1 at udayton.edu (Robert Spangler) Date: Thu Sep 16 13:20:33 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We actually have an option on the Konica Minolta to scan black and white and that scanned the book beautifully! Thanks again for your advice. Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:26 AM Robert Beach wrote: > Capture Perfect is the software that comes with Cannon scanners. With the > system you are using, I?m not sure you can do color drop out, but it will > probably be in the scanner settings since there is no software connecting > the scanner to a computer. At least there isn?t with our Konica Minolta > scanners. We use the Cannon for alt text production scanning. > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:53 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book > > > > I assumed you meant that I would be setting the options on the scanner. > It's a Konica Minolta. Currently though it's out of commission and IT is > looking into it. Just to be clear, though, we should be able to set the > color settings and such on the scanner itself? Also, if the text is gray, > I don't see how the scanner can make it black. > > > > What is Capture Perfect? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:22 AM Robert Beach wrote: > > Are you using Capture Perfect by any chance? If so, I can tell you exactly > where to find the color drop out settings. If you are using some other > program to capture the scan, I don?t know where the settings may be. It > will also depend on the scanner being used. > > > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:05 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book > > > > I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my > student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is > challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device > myself. > > > > Thanks for the answers thus far. > > > Robert > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach wrote: > > You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. > Also try some color drop out techniques. > > > > > > *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 *Robert Spangler > *Sent:* Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book > > > > *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 .* > > Hello, > > > > I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My > student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine > that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a > lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 > DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What > other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? > > > > Thanks, > > Robert > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or > any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > email in error, please "reply" to the sender. > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or > any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > email in error, please "reply" to the sender. > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > > > > > -- > > Robert Spangler > > Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning > Resources (OLR) > > University of Dayton > > Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) > > Roesch Library Room: 023 > > Phone: 937-229-2066 > > * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. > > For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) > > For office hours and further OLR information, please visit > > go.udayton.edu/ > > olr > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE > > The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and > intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the > reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby > notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or > any of its components is strictly prohibited. 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Check out the attached job description; resumes can be submitted to accessibility-hiring@yahooinc.com #accessibility #a11y Yahoo?s Accessibility Team is looking for two Associate Accessibility Specialists for product evaluation for all platforms. Applicants should share Yahoo?s passion for making products and services accessible to people with disabilities. In this role you will be a member of Yahoo?s award-winning Accessibility Team, internationally recognized leaders who have changed the Accessible Technology world. You will work with innovative, dedicated program managers, engineers and designers of apps and websites used by millions of people worldwide. Reflecting Yahoo?s singular focus on users, you will help assure that our products don?t just meet minimum accessibility requirements, but deliver extraordinary user experiences for everyone, including people with disabilities. *Responsibilities* Your primary role will be to work directly with Yahoo?s global product teams as one of Yahoo?s in-house accessibility experts on products, across all platforms (i.e., desktop web and app, native mobile app, mobile web, OTT and whatever?s next). Your responsibilities will include: conducting product evaluations, identifying barriers to accessibility, providing feedback and guidance during product development, training engineers on best practices, proposing or inventing technical solutions and validating that our products not only function as expected with assistive technology (e.g. keyboard/mouse alternatives), but that they set the standard for usability. You will be working on products and services across all of Yahoo?s brands such as: Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Fantasy, Yahoo News, Yahoo Shops, Yahoo.com and AOL.com. You will be responsible for working with Yahoo product groups to help them identify and address basic accessibility requirements as delineated in the W3C?s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, v2.1 and beyond. Successful candidates will be familiar with using screen reader software such as JAWS, NVDA, VoiceOver and TalkBack, as well as AT such as single switches, alternate input devices and magnifiers. In addition, they will have some experience with automated testing tools (e.g. WAVE, axe DevTools) and will have performed manual accessibility testing. They will have the ability to learn new products quickly, have strong time-management skills, the ability to work effectively to a deadline and a passion for working in a fast-paced high-tech environment. This is an active, hands-on role that will be attractive to people who enjoy working directly with a variety of cross-functional teams on multiple products simultaneously. A successful candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills and be able to clearly articulate technical concepts and issues to designers, software engineers, and product managers. Attention to detail is a must. Some travel may be required as the global health situation improves (at most a few days once or twice per quarter.) The locations for these roles is flexible, including working remotely, but preference will be given to candidates located near one of our state-of-the-art Accessibility Labs (San Jose, California; and New York City). These new hires will be brought on as Contractors. Your work day will include a variety of tasks such as product evaluations; discussions, presentations and demonstrations of accessible design principles and best practices to engineers, designers, product managers; and supporting the activities of Yahoo?s pioneering Accessibility Labs. Preferred Qualifications ? Bachelor's or Master?s degree ? Preferred majors: User Experience, Design, Human Factors, HCI, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Psychology, Anthropology ? At least one year of experience evaluating the accessibility of websites and mobile apps ? Connections with users with disabilities, as a member of the community, as a friend, family member or ally. Dedication to the issues of disability, diversity and inclusion. ? Knowledge of and experience with assistive technology (e.g., screen readers, single switches, closed captioning) ? Familiarity with built-in accessibility features on OSX, Windows, iOS and Android and set-top boxes (Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast, etc.) ? Familiarity with industry best practices and standards and guidelines for accessibility (e.g. WCAG 2.1) ? Proven ability to maintain positive relationships with teams and form individual relationships with peers ? Insatiable curiosity about the why behind the what, a keen eye for spotting ?aha!? moments in processes and in the data, passion for all digital experiences ? Ability to work independently and flexibly to adapt to rapid changes while keeping a positive attitude and an open mind ? Strong work ethic and spirited collaborator Some experience planning, conducting, analyzing, and presenting the results of UX research with various methodologies and experience conducting studies with people with disabilities ? Familiarity with JIRA and Google Suite (Docs, Drive, Meets) ? Strong presentation and writing skills To submit your resume, send it to: accessibility-hiring@yahooinc.com To learn more about our work visit www.yahoo.com/accessibility All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or other protected category. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide it will not subject you to any adverse treatment. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From K4mccall at outlook.com Fri Sep 17 02:34:38 2021 From: K4mccall at outlook.com (Karen McCall) Date: Fri Sep 17 02:34:53 2021 Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: When I read this I thought Norm had passed away. He hasn't. Cheers, Karen -----Original Message----- From: athen-list On Behalf Of White, Phillip Burton Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 3:24 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs I first meet Norm when he was a History professor with RIT at the CSUN conference. This was back in the 1990's. I moved out to California later and he became the head of Equal Access for Software for Instruction (EASI -- a spinoff from EDUCAUSE). In southern California there were a non-formal group meeting with Cal Pol Pomono, Cal State Fullerton, CSULA, and Cal State Long Beach having quarterly meetings. When Norm retire he came out to southern Cal, and we invited him to come give us updates on EASI. He, of course, wrote a book on assistive technology. We called our group even before he came out "West Coast EASI." Norm was always learning and bring ideas to the group and EASI . We know that he provided great leadership to EASI, and he was a delight to have at our group meetings, which eventually expanded to most of the school in the SoCal area. Phillip White Accessibility Consultant East Carolina University Whiteph15@ecu.edu 252-737-5258 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman12.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fathen-list&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd75469be429c484d0c9708d97948472f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637674173601992566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=F0qvpoo1vsBwSZ6HYAJvjFOiYd%2FST9Mo3h9ShSVRwAQ%3D&reserved=0 From Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu Fri Sep 17 04:50:48 2021 From: Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu (Susan Kelmer) Date: Fri Sep 17 04:51:20 2021 Subject: [Athen] Question About Scanning Book In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Robert. Yes, increasing the resolution would help. Go to 600 dpi. Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D598AC.79FC1C60] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 7:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Question About Scanning Book Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:26 AM Robert Beach > wrote: Capture Perfect is the software that comes with Cannon scanners. With the system you are using, I'm not sure you can do color drop out, but it will probably be in the scanner settings since there is no software connecting the scanner to a computer. At least there isn't with our Konica Minolta scanners. We use the Cannon for alt text production scanning. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:53 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book I assumed you meant that I would be setting the options on the scanner. It's a Konica Minolta. Currently though it's out of commission and IT is looking into it. Just to be clear, though, we should be able to set the color settings and such on the scanner itself? Also, if the text is gray, I don't see how the scanner can make it black. What is Capture Perfect? Thanks, Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:22 AM Robert Beach > wrote: Are you using Capture Perfect by any chance? If so, I can tell you exactly where to find the color drop out settings. If you are using some other program to capture the scan, I don't know where the settings may be. It will also depend on the scanner being used. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 9:05 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Question About Scanning Book I don't understand what color drop out techniques means, but I will ask my student to check if there is a black and white option in the scan. This is challenging for me since I am blind and really can't operate the device myself. Thanks for the answers thus far. Robert On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 9:30 AM Robert Beach > wrote: You might make sure you are scanning BW rather than grey scale or color. Also try some color drop out techniques. 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 Robert Spangler Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 8:14 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: [EXT][Athen] Question About Scanning Book 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. Hello, I have a book which, when scanned, the quality is not that great. My student worker tells me that the text is gray instead of black. I imagine that this could result in lower-quality scanning, since gray is a lighter color. I believe by default the scanner is set to scan at 300 DPI. Would increasing this improve the quality of the scan at all? What other suggestions would you have for improving the quality? Thanks, Robert -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. 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For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail or any of its components is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please "reply" to the sender. _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. 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URL: From resitton at ncsu.edu Fri Sep 17 05:55:02 2021 From: resitton at ncsu.edu (Rebecca Sitton) Date: Fri Sep 17 05:55:34 2021 Subject: [Athen] Question about Scanning Message-ID: Hi Robert, I have more success scanning a text when the DPI is a minimum of 400 DPI preferably closer to 600 DPI. For many years, scanning in straight black and white gave me optimum results but have realized that actually color and a higher resolution actually produce a more solid image for OCR to recognize (using Adobe Acrobat DC). It may be obvious but the best scans come from cutting the binding off the book. If you don't have access to a cutter, you may find business supply or print shops have one and will cut it for free or at a minimal charge, such as Kinkos. Luckily, I haven't had to scan many books in recent years as our Instructors are choosing more recent editions of textbooks and the older texts seem to be available through Bookshare or Learning Ally. Best, *Rebecca E. Sitton* IT Accessibility Coordinator NC State University Office of Information Technology Outreach, Communications & Consulting P: (919) 513-4087 Email: resitton@ncsu.edu Pronouns: she, her, hers NC State Accessibility "All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hunziker at arizona.edu Fri Sep 17 07:59:17 2021 From: hunziker at arizona.edu (Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker)) Date: Fri Sep 17 07:59:30 2021 Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, No, Norm has not passed away and I'm sorry if my message conveyed that idea. Norm has been a part of our AT and accessibility world for a long time and has had a lot of impact. ATHEN would like to recognize Norm's efforts over the years and present him with a recognition of his achievements during the ATHEN Annual meeting. If anyone would like to share comments, please fill out our form (or send me an email) at https://forms.gle/RVaWTmGGfGp32vmN6 - these stories/memories will also be shared with Norm. Thank you! Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 -----Original Message----- From: athen-list On Behalf Of Karen McCall Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 2:35 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs External Email When I read this I thought Norm had passed away. He hasn't. Cheers, Karen -----Original Message----- From: athen-list On Behalf Of White, Phillip Burton Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 3:24 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs I first meet Norm when he was a History professor with RIT at the CSUN conference. This was back in the 1990's. I moved out to California later and he became the head of Equal Access for Software for Instruction (EASI -- a spinoff from EDUCAUSE). In southern California there were a non-formal group meeting with Cal Pol Pomono, Cal State Fullerton, CSULA, and Cal State Long Beach having quarterly meetings. When Norm retire he came out to southern Cal, and we invited him to come give us updates on EASI. He, of course, wrote a book on assistive technology. We called our group even before he came out "West Coast EASI." Norm was always learning and bring ideas to the group and EASI . We know that he provided great leadership to EASI, and he was a delight to have at our group meetings, which eventually expanded to most of the school in the SoCal area. Phillip White Accessibility Consultant East Carolina University Whiteph15@ecu.edu 252-737-5258 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmailman12.u.washington.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fathen-list&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cd75469be429c484d0c9708d97948472f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637674173601992566%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=F0qvpoo1vsBwSZ6HYAJvjFOiYd%2FST9Mo3h9ShSVRwAQ%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From kerscher at montana.com Fri Sep 17 09:02:50 2021 From: kerscher at montana.com (kerscher@montana.com) Date: Fri Sep 17 09:03:22 2021 Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002701d7abdd$837dc9a0$8a795ce0$@montana.com> I know Norm well! He always was keenly interested in publishing and document accessibility. We collaborated frequently on best practices for providing information to students. He visited Missoula about a decade ago, and we had a wonderful dinner here in my home. You could always depend on Norm to provide rock solid information. What a wonderful guy and career. Best George George Kerscher Ph.D. -In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right. Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium http://www.daisy.org Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech http://www.benetech.org President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) http://www.idpf.org Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board (IMLS) http://www.imls.gov Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), at W3C http://www.w3.org/WAI Phone: +1 406/549-4687 Cell:+1 406/544-2466 Email: kerscher@montana.com -----Original Message----- From: athen-list On Behalf Of White, Phillip Burton Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 1:24 PM To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] Memories of Norm Coombs I first meet Norm when he was a History professor with RIT at the CSUN conference. This was back in the 1990's. I moved out to California later and he became the head of Equal Access for Software for Instruction (EASI -- a spinoff from EDUCAUSE). In southern California there were a non-formal group meeting with Cal Pol Pomono, Cal State Fullerton, CSULA, and Cal State Long Beach having quarterly meetings. When Norm retire he came out to southern Cal, and we invited him to come give us updates on EASI. He, of course, wrote a book on assistive technology. We called our group even before he came out "West Coast EASI." Norm was always learning and bring ideas to the group and EASI . We know that he provided great leadership to EASI, and he was a delight to have at our group meetings, which eventually expanded to most of the school in the SoCal area. Phillip White Accessibility Consultant East Carolina University Whiteph15@ecu.edu 252-737-5258 _______________________________________________ athen-list mailing list athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list From lydia at autistichoya.com Wed Sep 22 08:27:46 2021 From: lydia at autistichoya.com (Lydia X. Z. Brown) Date: Wed Sep 22 08:28:38 2021 Subject: [Athen] Gambier OH: Kenyon College hiring Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services Message-ID: Just the messenger: If this is of any interest to folks here, Kenyon is hiring a new Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services. Please circulate among your networks and I'm happy to answer questions as best as I can: Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services APPLY NOW Job no: 492768 Work type: Exempt Staff Location: Gambier, OH Categories: Kenyon College is conducting a search to fill the position of Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services. The Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services is a member of the Academic Division of the college and reports directly to the Dean for Academic Advising. In collaboration with the Academic Division and Student Affairs, the Director of Student Accessibility and Support Services works to facilitate program accessibility within all aspects of the student experience; including classroom, residential and extracurricular life. Primarily, the Director supports the mission of the College by planning, designing, and administering appropriate advising and support programs, policies and services for students with disabilities. The Director reviews documentation, engages in interactive discussions and oversees the assignment of academic, housing and dining accommodations for students, as well as providing support for faculty and staff with disabilities. The Director advises students with disabilities or connects them to appropriate advisors, overseeing a staff of two professional positions in the Student Accessibility and Support Services office. The Director works with offices across campus to ensure equity and access for all students and compliance with relevant laws. Working with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy, the Director provides training and resources to faculty to ensure the accessibility of classroom technology and digital media. The Director works with the Operations division to identify and remove barriers to access in college facilities and consults on new construction and renovation. RESPONSIBILITIES: The responsibilities of this position fall into three general areas: A. Advising and Support Programs, Policies and Services for Students with Disabilities B. Administrative C. Facility and Program Accessibility The specific responsibilities within each of these areas include the following: A. Advising and Support Programs, Policies and Services for Students with Disabilities. - Provide information and services to assist students with disabilities as they make the transition from high school to college; disperse information regarding services to incoming students and coordinate general education programming in this area. - Review and interpret documentation with the student to determine appropriate classroom and program accommodations on a case by case basis. Provide guidance to students in securing reasonable accommodations and support services. - Facilitate accommodation in collaboration with faculty members in their roles as faculty advisors and course instructors, and notifying faculty members about the College?s responsibilities in this area. - Serve as the liaison with campus offices in facilitating services to students with disabilities in partnering with staff across campus including the following: Admissions, Campus Safety, Career Development, Dean of Students, Health and Counseling, Housing and Residential Life, The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Provost and Associate Provosts office, the Registrar and Facility Operations. - Serve as liaison with appropriate state and community agencies. - Serve as the on-campus resource on accessibility, disability information, related issues, concerns and training. - As necessary, serve as advisor and support person for students with disabilities. Initiate personal conferences with and provide special support for students with disabilities or connect students with disabilities to other resources. - Work with the Center for Innovative Pedagogy, ACCESS Kenyon and the Faculty Committee on Academic Standards to promote equity and equal access for students regardless of age, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, cognitive and physical differences. - Facilitate support group(s) for students with disabilities. - Assist the Dean for Academic Advising in the provision of academic support services for all students. Present or coordinate workshops on issues such as time management, note taking, and other study skills. B. Administrative - Revise and update or assist the relevant committee in revising and updating policies and procedures related to accessibility, services and supports for students with disabilities on campus. - Serve on related Academic committees (Committee for Academic Standards). - Work with the VP for Student Affairs and student affairs staff in conducting in-service training programs for coaches, professional staff and student staff members. - Provide sound financial management for the Student Accessibility and Support Services office, including authorization of all departmental expenditures, evaluation and presentation of department needs which have budgetary implications, and preparation of department budget proposals as requests by the Provosts? office. - Assist in the preparation and editing of SASS publications. - Maintain website presence for SASS. - Coordinate Baldridge Reading and Study Skills Program. - Provide the Provosts? office with a year-end report and other reports as requested. - Assist the Dean for Academic Advising with special projects and responsibilities within the Academic Division of the College. - Perform other duties as assigned by the Provost and Dean for Academic Advising. C. Facility Access - Serve as advocate for principles of universal access on campus master planning process. Proactively identify barriers to access to promote inclusion and minimize the need for individual accommodations. - Consult on building and renovation projects to ensure access and ADA compliance. - Coordinate campus wide program and facility access reviews as needed. - Work with Building and Grounds staff to coordinate readily achievable barrier removal projects such as installation or automatic door closures and ramps. Qualifications - Master?s degree in a relevant field, plus demonstrated success working with individuals with disabilities in an educational setting. - Knowledge of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. - Experience providing academic accommodations through an interactive process. - Experience working with people with a range of diagnoses and backgrounds. - Demonstrated supervisory experience. - Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with staff, faculty and students. - Prior experience with software management, particularly Accommodate. - Strong cultural competency and a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Kenyon College is a nationally prominent, private liberal arts college where academic excellence goes hand in hand with a strong sense of community and close relationships among students and professors. Compensation and Benefits Salaries at Kenyon are competitive and commensurate with experience. In addition to an attractive salary, Kenyon offers benefits for employees and their family members. Children of employees are eligible for 100% tuition waivers at Kenyon, and through the Great Lakes Colleges Association , children of employees are eligible for 85% tuition waivers at fifteen other of the nation's finest liberal arts colleges. We also offer health and dental insurance, TIAA retirement, and many other benefits , including provisions for a spouse, families, and domestic partners. Details about benefits as well as conditions of employment are described more fully in our Staff Handbook . Kenyon is a unique place to live and work. To discover why it should be your next home, click here . *Kenyon College is an equal opportunity employer and applications from members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged. It is the College's policy to evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical and/or mental disability, age, religion, medical condition, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by institutional policy or state, local, or federal law. Kenyon College has a strong commitment to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. Please visit our Diversity at Kenyon website.* Advertised: 20 Sep 2021 Eastern Daylight Time Applications close: Open until filled -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From markgr at buffalo.edu Wed Sep 22 11:13:56 2021 From: markgr at buffalo.edu (Greenfield, Mark) Date: Wed Sep 22 11:14:24 2021 Subject: [Athen] Job Opening: EIT Accessibility Officer - University at Buffalo Message-ID: <2d964a77dd224905bd0b7b7fd59e5bd1@MBX-NR3.itorg.ad.buffalo.edu> Apologies for cross-posting. The University at Buffalo is recruiting for an EIT Accessibility Officer. (I am retiring and this position will replace mine.) Reporting through the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, this position provides central oversight, technical expertise and guidance, leadership, and vision to create and maintain the University's EIT accessibility program. The full job description and information on how to apply is available at: https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/30697 Please share with anyone who might be interested in this position. Thanks, Mark Mark A. Greenfield Web Accessibility Officer Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 406 Capen Hall State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, N.Y. 14260 telephone: (716)645-2811 e-mail: markgr@buffalo.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This position supervises 1-2 Instructional Accessibility Specialists as well as up to two student instructional accessibility positions. Both in-person and remote work are part of this position. --- Ione Priest (she/they) | Accessibility Technology Manager CPACC, DHS Certified Trusted Tester Access Center Metropolitan State University of Denver Campus Box 56, P.O. Box 173362, Denver, CO 80217-3362 303-615-0200 (office) www.msudenver.edu/access This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From krista at inclusiveinstructionaldesign.com Wed Sep 22 12:24:17 2021 From: krista at inclusiveinstructionaldesign.com (Krista Greear) Date: Wed Sep 22 12:24:54 2021 Subject: [Athen] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE In-Reply-To: <002e01d7afca$797515d0$6c5f4170$@pubcom.com> References: <002e01d7afca$797515d0$6c5f4170$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: Important - please read thread below and vote for fixing so Adobe sees our frustration at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20 . Krista Krista Greear Accessibility and Inclusivity Crusader ATHEN Executive Council Vice President Access Technology Higher Education Network ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Subject: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE To: WebAIM Discussion List Last week, Adobe updated Acrobat and with it, the PDF Maker plug-in for MS Office that is used to export PDFs from Word and other office apps on Windows. Several key bugs in PDF Maker have shown up since, namely: * Alt-text added in Word is dropped in the exported PDF and replaced with code gibberish. (Yes, all the Alt-text you worked hard on is gone!) * Every frigging line, border, and background fill on table cells, text boxes, paragraph borders, and hyperlinks is tagged in the Tag Tree with

PathPathPathPathPathPath.one "path" for each border on each cell in a table. * And there's no way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat and recover your tools. Once updated, you are S O L. Three actions to take: 1. Vote to fix these bugs on Adobe's UserVoice website. If you can, please also add a comment about how accessibility is required for you and your organization by your country's and state's laws. (Adobe's staff don't understand these laws about civil rights and equal access to information.) We need a few hundred votes on this page for Adobe to pay attention to the problem, so spread this message to your colleagues. The website is at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20 2. Until this is fixed, use Microsoft's built-in utility to export accessible tagged PDFs, and skip the Acrobat Ribbon (which is the Adobe PDF Maker plug-in) altogether. I'll have a blog / tutorial on this by the weekend, but in the meantime, here are the quick instructions: a. Make an accessible Word document as usual, with styles, Alt-text, etc. b. File / Save As / and then choose PDF in the File Type field. This triggers Microsoft's built-in export utility, not Adobe's. c. Set your options, file location, and file name. 3. And don't upgrade to the latest version of Acrobat. The version that is buggy (well, more than usual) is 2021.007.XXXX, and the versions of PDF Maker that are installed with it are PDF Maker 21 Library 21.7.123 and Library 21.7.112. - - - 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv On Behalf Of Rachel Thompson Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 1:23 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [EXT]Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE External Email All, I've just heard from the Univ of Alabama's Adobe rep who says, "The engineering team is working on this as a high priority fix. I hoping by Monday we'll have a date for the fix. I the interim folks can use the Save As functionality in Word to convert to a correctly tagged PDF". If I learn more, I will share. Thanks, Rachel Dr. Rachel S. Thompson | Director, Center for Instructional Technology Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Box 870248 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone 2053480216 rsthompson2@ua.edu | https://cit.ua.edu/ Book an appointment with me From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > On Behalf Of Ortiz, Tracie R. Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 2:30 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE I will definitely contribute my frustrations to Adobe. We had the same issues here at ODU and I'm glad to see we're not alone. Thank you for starting this! Tracie Tracie Ortiz, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Center for Learning and Teaching Gornto Hall, #131 Old Dominion University tortiz@odu.edu 757-683-3222 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > on behalf of Krista Greear > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:24 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE EXTERNAL to ODU: This email is not from an ODU account. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Important - please read thread below and vote for fixing so Adobe sees our frustration at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20. Krista Krista Greear Accessibility and Inclusivity Crusader ATHEN Executive Council Vice President Access Technology Higher Education Network ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: > Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Subject: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE To: WebAIM Discussion List > Last week, Adobe updated Acrobat and with it, the PDF Maker plug-in for MS Office that is used to export PDFs from Word and other office apps on Windows. Several key bugs in PDF Maker have shown up since, namely: * Alt-text added in Word is dropped in the exported PDF and replaced with code gibberish. (Yes, all the Alt-text you worked hard on is gone!) * Every frigging line, border, and background fill on table cells, text boxes, paragraph borders, and hyperlinks is tagged in the Tag Tree with

PathPathPathPathPathPath.one "path" for each border on each cell in a table. * And there's no way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat and recover your tools. Once updated, you are S O L. Three actions to take: 1. Vote to fix these bugs on Adobe's UserVoice website. If you can, please also add a comment about how accessibility is required for you and your organization by your country's and state's laws. (Adobe's staff don't understand these laws about civil rights and equal access to information.) We need a few hundred votes on this page for Adobe to pay attention to the problem, so spread this message to your colleagues. The website is at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20 2. Until this is fixed, use Microsoft's built-in utility to export accessible tagged PDFs, and skip the Acrobat Ribbon (which is the Adobe PDF Maker plug-in) altogether. I'll have a blog / tutorial on this by the weekend, but in the meantime, here are the quick instructions: a. Make an accessible Word document as usual, with styles, Alt-text, etc. b. File / Save As / and then choose PDF in the File Type field. This triggers Microsoft's built-in export utility, not Adobe's. c. Set your options, file location, and file name. 3. And don't upgrade to the latest version of Acrobat. The version that is buggy (well, more than usual) is 2021.007.XXXX, and the versions of PDF Maker that are installed with it are PDF Maker 21 Library 21.7.123 and Library 21.7.112. - - - 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 > ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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ATHEN Executive Council - Nominations for Executive Officers We are requesting your nominations for the following ATHEN Executive positions: - Vice President - Treasurer - Member-at-Large representative Details about the positions can be found in the ATHEN By-Laws . You are welcome to nominate yourself for these positions. If you are nominating another individual, it is highly recommended that you check with that person as to their availability. These positions are members of the ATHEN Executive Council and require some participation. All positions are for a 2 year commitment. Please submit all nominations via email to the ATHEN President, Dawn Hunziker, at: election@athenpro.org Nominations will close on Friday, October 15 at 5PM (Pacific). Voting will become available shortly thereafter. ATHEN Annual Meeting Please hold the date for the ATHEN Annual Meeting - All are welcome to attend the ATHEN Annual Meeting which will take place *Tuesday, November 19 at 2 PM Eastern*. 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Cassandra On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 3:58 PM ATHEN President wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have a couple of items of business for you this week. > > ATHEN Executive Council - Nominations for Executive Officers > > We are requesting your nominations for the following ATHEN Executive > positions: > > - Vice President > > - Treasurer > > - Member-at-Large representative > > > > Details about the positions can be found in the ATHEN By-Laws > . > > > > You are welcome to nominate yourself for these positions. If you are > nominating another individual, it is highly recommended that you check > with that person as to their availability. These positions are members of > the ATHEN Executive Council and require some participation. All positions > are for a 2 year commitment. > > > > Please submit all nominations via email to the ATHEN President, Dawn > Hunziker, at: election@athenpro.org > > > > Nominations will close on Friday, October 15 at 5PM (Pacific). Voting > will become available shortly thereafter. > > ATHEN Annual Meeting > Please hold the date for the ATHEN Annual Meeting > > > - All are welcome to attend the ATHEN Annual Meeting which will take > place *Tuesday, November 19 at 2 PM Eastern*. (.ics file is attached) > - Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87384816423 > - Real-Time Captioning will be provided. If you would like to request > any additional disability-related accommodations, please contact me at > athenpresident@gmail.com > > Have a good evening, > > Dawn Hunziker > ATHEN President > _______________________________________________ > 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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Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 From: athen-list On Behalf Of Cassandra L Tex Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:25 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [EXT]Re: [Athen] ATHEN Executive Council Nominations and ATHEN Annual Meeting 2021 External Email Greetings, It looks like the calendar invite is for November 9, but the text of the email says November 19. Can you please confirm the date of the ATHEN annual meeting? Thanks! Cassandra On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 3:58 PM ATHEN President > wrote: Hello everyone, We have a couple of items of business for you this week. ATHEN Executive Council - Nominations for Executive Officers We are requesting your nominations for the following ATHEN Executive positions: - Vice President - Treasurer - Member-at-Large representative Details about the positions can be found in the ATHEN By-Laws. You are welcome to nominate yourself for these positions. If you are nominating another individual, it is highly recommended that you check with that person as to their availability. These positions are members of the ATHEN Executive Council and require some participation. All positions are for a 2 year commitment. Please submit all nominations via email to the ATHEN President, Dawn Hunziker, at: election@athenpro.org Nominations will close on Friday, October 15 at 5PM (Pacific). Voting will become available shortly thereafter. ATHEN Annual Meeting Please hold the date for the ATHEN Annual Meeting ? All are welcome to attend the ATHEN Annual Meeting which will take place Tuesday, November 19 at 2 PM Eastern. (.ics file is attached) ? Zoom meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87384816423 ? Real-Time Captioning will be provided. If you would like to request any additional disability-related accommodations, please contact me at athenpresident@gmail.com Have a good evening, Dawn Hunziker ATHEN President _______________________________________________ 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 cassandra.tex at humboldt.edu Thu Sep 23 16:43:45 2021 From: cassandra.tex at humboldt.edu (Cassandra L Tex) Date: Thu Sep 23 16:44:58 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT]Re: ATHEN Executive Council Nominations and ATHEN Annual Meeting 2021 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I feel you Dawn! I have had the longest 5 weeks and busiest start of the semester in my 25+ year career! Thank you for clarifying the date! See you all on the 9th... Cassandra On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 4:37 PM Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) < hunziker@arizona.edu> wrote: > You know?. It?s just been one of those days, months, year!! > > > > Thank you, Cassandra, for catching that. > > > > The calendar invite is correct. The ATHEN Annual Meeting is scheduled for *Tuesday, > November 9, 2021 at 2 PM Eastern*. > > > > Dawn > > > > Dawn Hunziker > > Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources > > The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu > > drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu > > 520-626-9409 > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Cassandra L Tex > *Sent:* Thursday, September 23, 2021 4:25 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* [EXT]Re: [Athen] ATHEN Executive Council Nominations and ATHEN > Annual Meeting 2021 > > > > *External Email* > > Greetings, > > It looks like the calendar invite is for November 9, but the text of the > email says November 19. Can you please confirm the date of the ATHEN > annual meeting? > > > > Thanks! > > Cassandra > > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 3:58 PM ATHEN President > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > We have a couple of items of business for you this week. > > > > ATHEN Executive Council - Nominations for Executive Officers > > We are requesting your nominations for the following ATHEN Executive > positions: > > - Vice President > > - Treasurer > > - Member-at-Large representative > > > > Details about the positions can be found in the ATHEN By-Laws > . > > > > You are welcome to nominate yourself for these positions. If you > are nominating another individual, it is highly recommended that you check > with that person as to their availability. These positions are members of > the ATHEN Executive Council and require some participation. 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URL: From steve.green at testpartners.co.uk Fri Sep 24 02:43:42 2021 From: steve.green at testpartners.co.uk (Steve Green) Date: Fri Sep 24 02:44:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] FW: [EXT]Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE In-Reply-To: References: <002e01d7afca$797515d0$6c5f4170$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: I have always got better results using Save As PDF. A lot of people seem to be using PDF Maker, so what are its benefits? Steve Green Managing Director Test Partners Ltd From: athen-list On Behalf Of Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) Sent: 23 September 2021 22:33 To: athen-list@u.washington.edu Subject: [Athen] FW: [EXT]Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE Sharing since the initial notification was also sent on ATHEN list. Dawn Dawn Hunziker Assistant Director, Digital and Physical Access | Disability Resources The University of Arizona | hunziker@arizona.edu drc.arizona.edu | itaccessibility.arizona.edu 520-626-9409 From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > On Behalf Of Rachel Thompson Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 1:23 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [EXT]Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE External Email All, I've just heard from the Univ of Alabama's Adobe rep who says, "The engineering team is working on this as a high priority fix. I hoping by Monday we'll have a date for the fix. I the interim folks can use the Save As functionality in Word to convert to a correctly tagged PDF". If I learn more, I will share. Thanks, Rachel Dr. Rachel S. Thompson | Director, Center for Instructional Technology Office of Information Technology The University of Alabama Box 870248 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone 2053480216 rsthompson2@ua.edu | https://cit.ua.edu/ Book an appointment with me From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > On Behalf Of Ortiz, Tracie R. Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 2:30 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: Re: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE I will definitely contribute my frustrations to Adobe. We had the same issues here at ODU and I'm glad to see we're not alone. Thank you for starting this! Tracie Tracie Ortiz, Ph.D. Instructional Designer Center for Learning and Teaching Gornto Hall, #131 Old Dominion University tortiz@odu.edu 757-683-3222 ________________________________ From: The EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Community Group Listserv > on behalf of Krista Greear > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 3:24 PM To: ITACCESS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU > Subject: [ITACCESS] Fwd: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE EXTERNAL to ODU: This email is not from an ODU account. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Important - please read thread below and vote for fixing so Adobe sees our frustration at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20. Krista Krista Greear Accessibility and Inclusivity Crusader ATHEN Executive Council Vice President Access Technology Higher Education Network ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: > Date: Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:57 AM Subject: [WebAIM] Serious bugs in latest Acrobat update: DO NOT UPDATE To: WebAIM Discussion List > Last week, Adobe updated Acrobat and with it, the PDF Maker plug-in for MS Office that is used to export PDFs from Word and other office apps on Windows. Several key bugs in PDF Maker have shown up since, namely: * Alt-text added in Word is dropped in the exported PDF and replaced with code gibberish. (Yes, all the Alt-text you worked hard on is gone!) * Every frigging line, border, and background fill on table cells, text boxes, paragraph borders, and hyperlinks is tagged in the Tag Tree with

PathPathPathPathPathPath.one "path" for each border on each cell in a table. * And there's no way to roll back to the previous version of Acrobat and recover your tools. Once updated, you are S O L. Three actions to take: 1. Vote to fix these bugs on Adobe's UserVoice website. If you can, please also add a comment about how accessibility is required for you and your organization by your country's and state's laws. (Adobe's staff don't understand these laws about civil rights and equal access to information.) We need a few hundred votes on this page for Adobe to pay attention to the problem, so spread this message to your colleagues. The website is at https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/sugg estions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20 2. Until this is fixed, use Microsoft's built-in utility to export accessible tagged PDFs, and skip the Acrobat Ribbon (which is the Adobe PDF Maker plug-in) altogether. I'll have a blog / tutorial on this by the weekend, but in the meantime, here are the quick instructions: a. Make an accessible Word document as usual, with styles, Alt-text, etc. b. File / Save As / and then choose PDF in the File Type field. This triggers Microsoft's built-in export utility, not Adobe's. c. Set your options, file location, and file name. 3. And don't upgrade to the latest version of Acrobat. The version that is buggy (well, more than usual) is 2021.007.XXXX, and the versions of PDF Maker that are installed with it are PDF Maker 21 Library 21.7.123 and Library 21.7.112. - - - 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 > ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. If you want to reply only to the person who sent the message, copy and paste their email address and forward the email reply. Additional participation and subscription information can be found at https://www.educause.edu/community ********** Replies to EDUCAUSE Community Group emails are sent to the entire community list. 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Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts - neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 - Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? HCCS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From foreigntype at gmail.com Fri Sep 24 17:03:36 2021 From: foreigntype at gmail.com (foreigntype@gmail.com) Date: Fri Sep 24 17:04:52 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand wrote: > Hello all, > > We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies > for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already > offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web > license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, > a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the > Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. > > My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing > Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one > who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, > I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? > > Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or > who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this > semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 > chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace > engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since > birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS > for their technology because that is what they were taught. > > Thank you for your insights and suggestions, > > NJ > > > > *NJ Brand, ATAC* > ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation > ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, > off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice > > ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? HCCS > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 ecmatson at uidaho.edu Sat Sep 25 12:39:51 2021 From: ecmatson at uidaho.edu (Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu)) Date: Sat Sep 25 12:40:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] Focus Highlight in Windows? Message-ID: Hey all, Been teaching some of my sighted work study students to use NVDA and realize I really want the same focus highlight feature in NVDA for Windows in general. I have ADHD and am constantly losing track of where the focus is (pun intended!), then have to take my hands of the keyboard to mouse click something that may or may not already be active. I didn't see anything in a quick Windows setting look, but also didn't do a lot of searching. Before I dive into color schemes, anyone know if changing / adding a bright color to indicate cursor focus is an option in Windows or know of any software options to do that? Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From glen.walker at gmail.com Sat Sep 25 14:17:25 2021 From: glen.walker at gmail.com (glen walker) Date: Sat Sep 25 14:18:04 2021 Subject: [Athen] Focus Highlight in Windows? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I don't have anything for Windows in general but for websites, I use the Stylus plugin (works in chrome and firefox). I have one line in my Stylus stylesheet to set the focus indicator and it works for every website I visit. Really nice for showing the current focus location. *:focus {outline: #f0f 4px solid !important} This says for every element (*) that can receive focus (:focus), make the outline purple (#FF00FF), 4px, and solid and override (!important) anything else the page does for outline. On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 1:40 PM Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) < ecmatson@uidaho.edu> wrote: > Hey all, > > > > Been teaching some of my sighted work study students to use NVDA and > realize I really want the same focus highlight feature in NVDA for Windows > in general. I have ADHD and am constantly losing track of where the focus > is (pun intended!), then have to take my hands of the keyboard to mouse > click something that may or may not already be active. I didn?t see > anything in a quick Windows setting look, but also didn?t do a lot of > searching. Before I dive into color schemes, anyone know if changing / > adding a bright color to indicate cursor focus is an option in Windows or > know of any software options to do that? > > > > > > *Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist* > > Center for Disability Access and Resources > > Division of Student Affairs > > The University of Idaho > > Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 > > Fax: 208.885.9404 > > Campus Zip: 4257 > > > > Pronouns: He / Him / His > > > > This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other > confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise > the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any > attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 chagnon at pubcom.com Sun Sep 26 19:07:37 2021 From: chagnon at pubcom.com (chagnon@pubcom.com) Date: Sun Sep 26 19:08:04 2021 Subject: [Athen] Focus Highlight in Windows? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <002c01d7b344$7228bf20$567a3d60$@pubcom.com> You can control Windows' basic cursor, size and color. 1. From the System Settings menu, select Devices / Mouse. 2. From the right side, half-way down, select Adjust Mouse & Cursor Size. Use the slider to adjust the size and choose a color. 3. From the left side menu, select Text Cursor. The first slider adjusts the size of the text cursor's endpoints - they look like dumbbells. The bottom slider adjust the thickness of its vertical bar. Don't go too wild with that one; when it's more than 3-4 points thick it begins to highlight the letters, rather than just being the text cursor in front of the letters. 4. You also might try High-Contrast settings located in the same group of Settings. The basic one turns everything to black and white, which creates a much cleaner screen display that helps some people with reading or vision disorders. -Bevi - - - 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 Matson, Eric (ecmatson@uidaho.edu) Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2021 3:40 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: [Athen] Focus Highlight in Windows? Hey all, Been teaching some of my sighted work study students to use NVDA and realize I really want the same focus highlight feature in NVDA for Windows in general. I have ADHD and am constantly losing track of where the focus is (pun intended!), then have to take my hands of the keyboard to mouse click something that may or may not already be active. I didn't see anything in a quick Windows setting look, but also didn't do a lot of searching. Before I dive into color schemes, anyone know if changing / adding a bright color to indicate cursor focus is an option in Windows or know of any software options to do that? Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. 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URL: From normajean.brand at hccs.edu Mon Sep 27 08:08:02 2021 From: normajean.brand at hccs.edu (Normajean.Brand) Date: Mon Sep 27 08:08:13 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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Thanks, Eric Matson | Assistive Technology Specialist Center for Disability Access and Resources Division of Student Affairs The University of Idaho Phone: 208.885.6307 | ecmatson@uidaho.edu| Bruce M. Pitman Center 127 Fax: 208.885.9404 Campus Zip: 4257 Pronouns: He / Him / His This communication may contain privileged, non-public or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu Mon Sep 27 13:23:54 2021 From: Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu (Stager, Catherine) Date: Mon Sep 27 13:24:03 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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Our blog that details the problems also has some help https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml: a. A handout you can use to export PDFs from Word using Microsoft's built-in PDF utility. At this time, it's not putting in any of the problems as Adobe's, but who knows. Both companies have been known to seriously botch this process. https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#download We've given our instructions a creative commons license, which will allow you to electronically distribute it within your organization. 2. Adobe has said they are working on a bug fix for the missing Alt-text on graphics. 3. But upon further testing over the weekend, we've documented another twist on that bug: When a graphic is manually marked in Word as decorative / artifacted, the resulting tagged PDF is a mess: a. PDF Maker adds gibberish code as Alt-text. b. It is tagged as

with the image data. Not only is this a violation of the PDF/UA-1 standard (image data must be in a

tag), but it is voiced as a confusing bunch of crud: no announcement that there's an image, the screen readers pick up the gibberish Alt-text. c. See the September 27 update to our blog at https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#sept27 4. Issues are found in the Mac update as well, including this one about dragging/dropping in Acrobat's tree panels: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-pro-accessibility -tools-not-working/m-p/12408086#M331041 5. And I'll end on some good news. Adobe has released the super-secret instructions on how to remove the current buggy version of Acrobat and roll back to the previous install. See Ankit Kumar Gupta's solution at https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/install-the-previous-patc h-update/m-p/12387847#M3... Suggestion: keep that information for future reference, and pass it along to your IT department. My best to you.and please encourage others to vote. - - - 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chagnon at pubcom.com Mon Sep 27 14:09:33 2021 From: chagnon at pubcom.com (chagnon@pubcom.com) Date: Mon Sep 27 14:10:10 2021 Subject: [Athen] [WebAIM] Update: PDF Maker problems In-Reply-To: References: <008f01d7b3e1$0b032d10$21098730$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: <009d01d7b3e3$f8cf1cf0$ea6d56d0$@pubcom.com> Thanks for the proofing, Colin! The correct link to Adobe?s bug page is https://acrobat.uservoice.com/forums/590923-acrobat-for-windows-and-mac/suggestions/44183082-accessibility-errors-with-pdf-maker-update-sept-20 ?Bevi ? ? ? 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: Colin Osterhout Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 4:53 PM To: chagnon@pubcom.com Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Update: PDF Maker problems That first link goes to an article on "The Family Handyman" about patching a garage floor. As an owner of an old home I did find that somewhat interesting, but I'm guessing that wasn't your intent. Do you have a different link for that Adobe issue? Colin On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 12:48 PM > wrote: Thanks to everyone who posted their concerns (and other "feelings") about the recent problems with PDFs exported from Word with Adobe's PDF Maker plug-in. We have more than 150 votes at https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/garage-floor-resurfacing-fix-a-pitted -garage-floor/ (As some commented, what does it mean when we have to vote to get bugs fixed?) Some good news and not so good news. 1. Our blog that details the problems also has some help https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml: a. A handout you can use to export PDFs from Word using Microsoft's built-in PDF utility. At this time, it's not putting in any of the problems as Adobe's, but who knows. Both companies have been known to seriously botch this process. https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#download We've given our instructions a creative commons license, which will allow you to electronically distribute it within your organization. 2. Adobe has said they are working on a bug fix for the missing Alt-text on graphics. 3. But upon further testing over the weekend, we've documented another twist on that bug: When a graphic is manually marked in Word as decorative / artifacted, the resulting tagged PDF is a mess: a. PDF Maker adds gibberish code as Alt-text. b. It is tagged as

with the image data. Not only is this a violation of the PDF/UA-1 standard (image data must be in a

tag), but it is voiced as a confusing bunch of crud: no announcement that there's an image, the screen readers pick up the gibberish Alt-text. c. See the September 27 update to our blog at https://www.pubcom.com/blog/2021-09-24_bugs/bugs_pdfmaker_1.shtml#sept27 4. Issues are found in the Mac update as well, including this one about dragging/dropping in Acrobat's tree panels: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/acrobat-pro-accessibility -tools-not-working/m-p/12408086#M331041 5. And I'll end on some good news. Adobe has released the super-secret instructions on how to remove the current buggy version of Acrobat and roll back to the previous install. See Ankit Kumar Gupta's solution at https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/install-the-previous-patc h-update/m-p/12387847#M3... Suggestion: keep that information for future reference, and pass it along to your IT department. My best to you.and please encourage others to vote. - - - 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 _______________________________________________ To manage your subscription, visit http://list.webaim.org/ List archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives Address list messages to webaim-forum@list.webaim.org -- Colin Osterhout Website Coordinator, University of Alaska Southeast ctosterhout@alaska.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu Tue Sep 28 06:53:00 2021 From: Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu (Susan Kelmer) Date: Tue Sep 28 06:53:15 2021 Subject: [Athen] Update: PDF Maker problems In-Reply-To: <008f01d7b3e1$0b032d10$21098730$@pubcom.com> References: <008f01d7b3e1$0b032d10$21098730$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: All of this mess just reinforces, to me, that PDFs should NOT be being produced/remediated and given to students using screenreaders. I don't have these problems with well-formatted Microsoft Word or HTML files. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a dinosaur, steadfastly continuing to create really great quality Word and HTML files for my students with VI, and not even attempting to make a PDF accessible for them, or to create a PDF as output. Until Adobe gets its act together, there is absolutely no reason for me to waste time trying to make PDFs work. It is not "easy" or "fast" to remediate a PDF file, and even more importantly, the resulting PDF output is not effective! Why are we collectively banging our heads against the wall, as if there weren't a different path we could (and should?) be following? Just my cranky .02 this morning. Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D598AC.79FC1C60] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you've received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 8916 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From K4mccall at outlook.com Tue Sep 28 08:11:22 2021 From: K4mccall at outlook.com (Karen McCall) Date: Tue Sep 28 08:11:41 2021 Subject: [Athen] Update: PDF Maker problems In-Reply-To: References: <008f01d7b3e1$0b032d10$21098730$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: I just bought Kofax PowerPDF - My instance of Nuance PowerPDF wouldn't install. Kofax bought the print part of Nuance in 2018 or 2019 so my guess is that Nuance is no longer supporting even the install of PowerPDF. I bought the PowerPDF Advanced which has the tagging capability. Standard does not. On an untagged PDF with headings, lists and page numbers in a coloured box, everything got tagged as a

even the lists. This means that for this 10 page document with at least 4 lists on each page, the lists are going to have to be manually tagged. There is no Content Panel in PowerPDF. For the untagged document, when I opened the Reading Order Panel (which you have to do EVERY time you want to use it - it is not added to the Navigation Pane) and tried to designate both the page number and the image the page number was in/on, I was able to artifact the page number but the

tag was still in the Reading Order Panel but not in the Tags Tree and when I tried further remediation to get rid of the
tag, PowerPDF crashed. I was using standard remediation techniques - nothing strange or outside of what I would normally try. For a tagged PDF that I use as my benchmark accessible Word document then use the conversion tools to create the PDF, parts of table gridlines and decorative images were "stuck" to text and without a Content Panel, I couldn't remove them. They didn't show up in the Reading Order Panel but did show up in the Tags Tree. For example: "PathIntroductionPathPathPath". When Kofax purchased the Nuance PowerPDF I did call them and ask about their continued commitment to accessible PDF and patiently went over tags and their importance. Even their developers had no clue what I was talking about and they didn't seem interested in further discussions. Am trying to find a Foxit website where I can get Foxit. I had the Foxit for Business and was working with them on accessibility/tags but they lost interest and my complimentary copy ran out. I can find all sorts of third party download sites but want to purchase from Foxit. One final note...for this post...on PowerPDF. Kofax hasn't improved the visibility of the "Autotag" button. It is a tiny button with no label to the left of the settings/Options button just above the Tags Tree. It has an even tinier plus sign on it so the visibility of the button looks like a "glitch" in the software rather than a functional button. If you right click on No Tags Available, you can only add a Tags Root. However, the PowerPDF Ribbon in Word does create a tagged PDF by default. Kofax PowerPDF Advanced is $179 USD or 238 CAD and is a one time payment. If there is a significant upgrade you would pay for it. Will keep you updated on my research. Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chagnon at pubcom.com Tue Sep 28 08:27:37 2021 From: chagnon at pubcom.com (chagnon@pubcom.com) Date: Tue Sep 28 08:28:05 2021 Subject: [Athen] Update: PDF Maker problems In-Reply-To: References: <008f01d7b3e1$0b032d10$21098730$@pubcom.com> Message-ID: <002801d7b47d$5ed81490$1c883db0$@pubcom.com> Karen, here's FoxIt's website: https://www.foxit.com/ FYI, a couple years ago, folks inside FoxIt told us that they wrote Microsoft's PDF export utility for Word (that's File / Save As / PDF). For those who need this information, Foxit's headquarters are in Fremont, California, but the company is incorporated in Fujian, China, and is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange STAR Market (symbol 688095). It is not a US company, no matter what their website says. Since we now have companies with offices around the world, always look for where a company is incorporated, and on which country's stock exchange it's listed. That shows a company's true pedigree. -Bevi - - - 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: Karen McCall Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:11 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network ; chagnon@pubcom.com Cc: WebAIM Discussion List Subject: RE: [Athen] Update: PDF Maker problems I just bought Kofax PowerPDF - My instance of Nuance PowerPDF wouldn't install. Kofax bought the print part of Nuance in 2018 or 2019 so my guess is that Nuance is no longer supporting even the install of PowerPDF. I bought the PowerPDF Advanced which has the tagging capability. Standard does not. On an untagged PDF with headings, lists and page numbers in a coloured box, everything got tagged as a

even the lists. This means that for this 10 page document with at least 4 lists on each page, the lists are going to have to be manually tagged. There is no Content Panel in PowerPDF. For the untagged document, when I opened the Reading Order Panel (which you have to do EVERY time you want to use it - it is not added to the Navigation Pane) and tried to designate both the page number and the image the page number was in/on, I was able to artifact the page number but the

tag was still in the Reading Order Panel but not in the Tags Tree and when I tried further remediation to get rid of the
tag, PowerPDF crashed. I was using standard remediation techniques - nothing strange or outside of what I would normally try. For a tagged PDF that I use as my benchmark accessible Word document then use the conversion tools to create the PDF, parts of table gridlines and decorative images were "stuck" to text and without a Content Panel, I couldn't remove them. They didn't show up in the Reading Order Panel but did show up in the Tags Tree. For example: "PathIntroductionPathPathPath". When Kofax purchased the Nuance PowerPDF I did call them and ask about their continued commitment to accessible PDF and patiently went over tags and their importance. Even their developers had no clue what I was talking about and they didn't seem interested in further discussions. Am trying to find a Foxit website where I can get Foxit. I had the Foxit for Business and was working with them on accessibility/tags but they lost interest and my complimentary copy ran out. I can find all sorts of third party download sites but want to purchase from Foxit. One final note.for this post.on PowerPDF. Kofax hasn't improved the visibility of the "Autotag" button. It is a tiny button with no label to the left of the settings/Options button just above the Tags Tree. It has an even tinier plus sign on it so the visibility of the button looks like a "glitch" in the software rather than a functional button. If you right click on No Tags Available, you can only add a Tags Root. However, the PowerPDF Ribbon in Word does create a tagged PDF by default. Kofax PowerPDF Advanced is $179 USD or 238 CAD and is a one time payment. If there is a significant upgrade you would pay for it. Will keep you updated on my research. Cheers, Karen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From normajean.brand at hccs.edu Tue Sep 28 11:28:41 2021 From: normajean.brand at hccs.edu (Normajean.Brand) Date: Tue Sep 28 11:29:07 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as the old ones. We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D598AC.79FC1C60] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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After talking to someone who has been in our ADA office only a year or two longer than I have (mutter?20yrs), he seems to remember some type of embosser that no one knew how to use, and it ended up being a closet and then just, I guess, dissolving into dust in the closet because no one knows what happened to it! NJ From: athen-list On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:50 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students We are using an ancient (well, in technological terms -15 years old or so) Juliet duplexing/interpoint embosser. We?ve had to have her fixed a few times, but it has been worth it. She no longer talks to the network so I have to print from a local machine, but I still don?t care. Her replacement, the Trident, broke down after 14 months of very limited use. It was sent off for repair, and when it came back, it went into storage. Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as the old ones. We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D7B48D.CC138A20] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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URL: From Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu Wed Sep 29 11:24:18 2021 From: Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu (Stager, Catherine) Date: Wed Sep 29 11:24:43 2021 Subject: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Ha ha ? we had a Romeo embosser at CU that was kind of like that (the Juliet Susan speaks of was the replacement purchased pre-2008). Interestingly enough, we ended up donating the Romeo to the National Library of Azerbaijan ? it was very gratefully received! From: athen-list On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:25 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Thank you Susan! After talking to someone who has been in our ADA office only a year or two longer than I have (mutter?20yrs), he seems to remember some type of embosser that no one knew how to use, and it ended up being a closet and then just, I guess, dissolving into dust in the closet because no one knows what happened to it! NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:50 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students We are using an ancient (well, in technological terms -15 years old or so) Juliet duplexing/interpoint embosser. We?ve had to have her fixed a few times, but it has been worth it. She no longer talks to the network so I have to print from a local machine, but I still don?t care. Her replacement, the Trident, broke down after 14 months of very limited use. It was sent off for repair, and when it came back, it went into storage. Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as the old ones. We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D7B52C.7C277C70] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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Hah! -Susan From: athen-list On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Ha ha ? we had a Romeo embosser at CU that was kind of like that (the Juliet Susan speaks of was the replacement purchased pre-2008). Interestingly enough, we ended up donating the Romeo to the National Library of Azerbaijan ? it was very gratefully received! From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:25 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Thank you Susan! After talking to someone who has been in our ADA office only a year or two longer than I have (mutter?20yrs), he seems to remember some type of embosser that no one knew how to use, and it ended up being a closet and then just, I guess, dissolving into dust in the closet because no one knows what happened to it! NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:50 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students We are using an ancient (well, in technological terms -15 years old or so) Juliet duplexing/interpoint embosser. We?ve had to have her fixed a few times, but it has been worth it. She no longer talks to the network so I have to print from a local machine, but I still don?t care. Her replacement, the Trident, broke down after 14 months of very limited use. It was sent off for repair, and when it came back, it went into storage. Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as the old ones. We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D7B52E.9AFAF4E0] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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Robert On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:27 PM Stager, Catherine < Catherine.Stager@frontrange.edu> wrote: > Ha ha ? we had a Romeo embosser at CU that was kind of like that (the > Juliet Susan speaks of was the replacement purchased pre-2008). > Interestingly enough, we ended up donating the Romeo to the National > Library of Azerbaijan ? it was very gratefully received! > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Normajean.Brand > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:25 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community > College System. 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. > > Thank you Susan! > > > > After talking to someone who has been in our ADA office only a year or two > longer than I have (mutter?20yrs), he seems to remember some type of > embosser that no one knew how to use, and it ended up being a closet and > then just, I guess, dissolving into dust in the closet because no one knows > what happened to it! > > > > NJ > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Susan Kelmer > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:50 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > We are using an ancient (well, in technological terms -15 years old or so) > Juliet duplexing/interpoint embosser. We?ve had to have her fixed a few > times, but it has been worth it. She no longer talks to the network so I > have to print from a local machine, but I still don?t care. Her > replacement, the Trident, broke down after 14 months of very limited use. > It was sent off for repair, and when it came back, it went into storage. > > > > Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I > fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she > worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of > Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as > the old ones. > > > > We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format > Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). > > > > > > *Susan Kelmer * > > Alternate Format Production Program Manager > > Disability Services > > Division of Student Affairs > > *T* 303 735 4836 > > *www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices > * > > > > > > > > *Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this > message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please > notify the sender immediately and delete this message. * > > > > > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Normajean.Brand > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone > find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get > started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was > looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my > league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. > > Best, > > NJ > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Stager, Catherine > *Sent:* Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM > *To:* 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > Hi NJ, > > Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the > need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool > for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes > interacting with math much easier. > > Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the > Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go > this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics > software included in its software package and can easily make use of images > the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about > $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high > and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses > Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. > I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder > from > TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of > students I have worked with. > > Best, > > Cath > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *Normajean.Brand > *Sent:* Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > > > *CAUTION:* This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community > College System. 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. > > Hi Wink, > > No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or > virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. > > > > NJ > > > > *From:* athen-list *On > Behalf Of *foreigntype@gmail.com > *Sent:* Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM > *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network < > athen-list@u.washington.edu> > *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually > impaired students > > > > NJ, > Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a > specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy > Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if > you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a > presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation > of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of > those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. > Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & > Nemeth code. > > > > My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division > science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth > code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would > benefit them in college work in general. > > > > Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of > blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is > called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ > > > > You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. > > > > You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, > illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having > some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a > flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. > https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. > > > > Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with > some more useful information & contacts. > > > > 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: > > Hello all, > > We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies > for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already > offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web > license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, > a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the > Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. > > My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing > Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one > who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, > I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? > > Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or > who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this > semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 > chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace > engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since > birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS > for their technology because that is what they were taught. > > Thank you for your insights and suggestions, > > NJ > > > > *NJ Brand, ATAC* > ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation > ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, > off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice > > ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? HCCS > > > > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > > _______________________________________________ > athen-list mailing list > athen-list@mailman12.u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list > -- Robert Spangler Disability Services Technical Support Specialist, Office of Learning Resources (OLR) University of Dayton Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center (LTC) Roesch Library Room: 023 Phone: 937-229-2066 * All appointments are being held remotely at this time. For Deaf/Hard of Hearing, call 711 (Ohio Relay) For office hours and further OLR information, please visit go.udayton.edu/ olr CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The information contained in this electronic message is confidential and intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. 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From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Spangler Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2021 12:58 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. I have a Romeo Pro 50 that I use at home that I received through a grant in 2002 when I was in 7th grade. It still works, just squeaks a little when it brailles. I had to get a parallel card for my PC since it doesn't have USB, and my PC doesn't have native parallel ports! I imagine that it is no longer being supported, so when it goes belly-up, it's done. Robert On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 2:27 PM Stager, Catherine > wrote: Ha ha ? we had a Romeo embosser at CU that was kind of like that (the Juliet Susan speaks of was the replacement purchased pre-2008). Interestingly enough, we ended up donating the Romeo to the National Library of Azerbaijan ? it was very gratefully received! From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 4:25 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Thank you Susan! After talking to someone who has been in our ADA office only a year or two longer than I have (mutter?20yrs), he seems to remember some type of embosser that no one knew how to use, and it ended up being a closet and then just, I guess, dissolving into dust in the closet because no one knows what happened to it! NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Susan Kelmer Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 2:50 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students We are using an ancient (well, in technological terms -15 years old or so) Juliet duplexing/interpoint embosser. We?ve had to have her fixed a few times, but it has been worth it. She no longer talks to the network so I have to print from a local machine, but I still don?t care. Her replacement, the Trident, broke down after 14 months of very limited use. It was sent off for repair, and when it came back, it went into storage. Even after sitting off/idle/in a coma throughout the pandemic, when I fired her up to print some Braille for a student a couple weeks ago, she worked completely flawlessly. I do believe they now make a new version of Juliet, and Trident has been retired. I hope the new ones are as good as the old ones. We use Duxbury Braille Translator to take Word files to whatever format Braille is needed (including pre-UEB text and pre-UEB Nemeth). Susan Kelmer Alternate Format Production Program Manager Disability Services Division of Student Affairs T 303 735 4836 www.colorado.edu/disabilityservices [cid:image001.png@01D7B532.BC8ABC40] Due to the nature of electronic communication, the security of this message cannot be guaranteed. If you?ve received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 12:29 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Thank you, Cath! This was my next question ? what embosser does everyone find best/easiest to use for someone (me!) who doesn?t know Braille and get started with, and what you are using to produce tactile graphics. I was looking at PIAF but feeling a bit overwhelmed and definitely out of my league on this one. Thank you for the suggestions. Best, NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Stager, Catherine Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 3:24 PM To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network' > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students Hi NJ, Independence science is a great resource, as Wink mentioned. I echo the need for the would be engineer to learn LaTex ? it can be a valuable tool for anyone wishing to do any publishing in the field and it makes interacting with math much easier. Even if you do not produce Braille it may be worth investigating the Phoenix embosser for the tactile graphics support. I would probably go this direction rather than a PIAF: the Phoenix has tactile graphics software included in its software package and can easily make use of images the APH Tactile Images library, or even just emboss a PDF. There is about $1000 difference in price, but the cost of the paper the PIAF uses is high and small errors make an entire drawing unusable. Since a Phoenix uses Braille paper it is more cost effective in that sense. I loved working with the Tactile Talking Pen and the STEM binder from TouchGraphics ? their Periodic Table of the Elements was a favorite of students I have worked with. Best, Cath From: athen-list > On Behalf Of Normajean.Brand Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 9:08 AM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Colorado Community College System. 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. Hi Wink, No, unfortunately, I?m not able to attend this year either in person or virtually. Budgets have been slashed tremendously. NJ From: athen-list > On Behalf Of foreigntype@gmail.com Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 7:04 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network > Subject: Re: [Athen] Looking to add/update our tech for blind/visually impaired students NJ, Are you going to sign up for the Accessing Higher Conference? There is a specific presentation by Volker Sorge on Wednesday afternoon 11/17 on Easy Accessibility for Chemistry. It's available on the virtual conference so if you can go in person, it's available online. Volker is also doing a presentation on Thursday at the conference entitled "Automated Generation of Tactile Math." I know this is not an immediate fix, but either one of those or both of those presentations might be helpful to you in the future. Joe Polizotto is also giving a presentation on math conversion into HTML & Nemeth code. My two cents on student responsibilities for preparing for upper division science & math? Either one or both of the students need to learn Nemeth code for their math courses and/or LaTeX coding. Learning Braille would benefit them in college work in general. Here is an organization you need to hook up with. It's an organization of blind scientists which, I assume, would include aerospace engineers. It is called Independence Science: https://independencescience.com/resources/ You might pass this information onto your student for their future contact. You'll need some kind of process to create raised tactile drawings, illustrations, graphs, etc. You won't be able to send it all out so having some in-house mechanism would be helpful. The raised line picture in a flash (PIAF) device from Freedom Scientific would be helpful. https://store.humanware.com/hus/piaf-picture-in-a-flash-tactile-graphic-maker.html#:~:text=Piaf%20is%20a%20machine%20that,called%20capsule%20or%20swell%20paper.&text=The%20heat%20of%20the%20Piaf,are%20blind%20and%20vision%20impaired. Hope this helps. At least it's a start. I'm sure others will Japan with some more useful information & contacts. 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 Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 3:40 PM Normajean.Brand > wrote: Hello all, We?ve been given a little money to ?add new or update? our technologies for our blind or visually impaired student?s use on campus. We already offer Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText, and Dragon on campus. We have the Kurzweil web license and Glean, which students can download to their personal computers, a partnership with Freedom Scientific for Fusion/JAWS/ZoomText for the Sponsored Software license for our students, and Microsoft 365. My thought is to add items from the APH store like the Tactile Drawing Board but not sure what else to add to my wish list. We don?t have any one who knows how to Braille, or own an embosser or software for creating; so, I?m open to suggestions on these items. What else should I be looking for? Note: It is rare that I have any students who know any level of Braille or who own an embosser or any Braille reading technology, however, this semester I have two and as luck would have it, both are in level 1 chemistry classes and algebra. One is dead set on becoming a aerospace engineer, the other is general/liberal arts ? neither have had sight since birth. Most of my blind students have come to us totally relying on JAWS for their technology because that is what they were taught. Thank you for your insights and suggestions, NJ NJ Brand, ATAC ADA Tech/Assistive Technology Technician, Center for Learning Innovation ? Spring Branch Campus ? Suite RC12/13 ? Note: Working remotely, off-campus, due to COVID-19 until further notice ? T: 713.718.5604 ? F:713.718.5430 ? 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It is an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to grow within this field and/or experienced candidates seeking additional educational opportunities while continuing to work in this area. We would really appreciate you distributing this to your network of qualified candidates. I apologize, in advance, if you receive this message multiple times due to cross-posting. Job Title: Assistive Technology Specialist Position Summary: This position will support the ATI in its mission to ensure equivalent access to Mason programs and services for individuals with disabilities. Primary responsibilities will include the following: * Coordinating and providing assistive technology assessments, training, and technical assistance to support students with disabilities in the Mason community; * Assisting ATI staff with identifying, assessing, remediating, and troubleshooting documents, videos, and/or supplemental applications (e.g., Pearson, McGraw-Hill, etc.) to ensure timely access to instructional resources for students with disabilities; * Assisting the Information Technology Accessibility Coordinator with testing websites and web-based applications used in Mason courses for compliance with Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines [WCAG] 2.1 AA; * Coordinating, developing, and delivering training and technical assistance to DS staff and students on existing assistive technology supports and services; * Maintaining/updating office inventory and assistive technology equipment loan databases; * Disseminating routine information to the other departments/units regarding ATI services; and * Maintaining/updating library assistive technology lab computer systems. 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Hi all, Are there shortcut keyboard commands to open Zoom Text? Thanks, Bryon Bryon Kluesner RhD, ATAC Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Member of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu Thu Sep 30 10:49:26 2021 From: Bryon-Kluesner at utc.edu (Kluesner, Bryon) Date: Thu Sep 30 10:49:43 2021 Subject: [Athen] [EXT] Open Zoom Text In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Robert, The CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Z didn't work for me. Would you mind to send directions on setting up a hotkey? Thanks, Bryon Bryon Kluesner RhD, ATAC Adaptive Technology Coordinator Disability Resource Center University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 615 McCallie Ave., Dept. 2953 Chattanooga, TN 37403 423-425-5251 Member of Division of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs From: athen-list On Behalf Of Robert Beach Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 1:42 PM To: Access Technology Higher Education Network Subject: Re: [Athen] [EXT] Open Zoom Text If it is turned on is the ZT settings, CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Z "should" load ZoomText. You can also create a hotkey for it. If you want directions on that, let me know. 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Job-Specific Responsibilities : This position must have expert knowledge of various Access Technology (AT) solutions and working knowledge of various course delivery system and learning management systems, while training students, staff, and faculty on AT use and interfacing with course design and delivery. The Specialist will work with teaching and learning team to assist faculty/instructors with the creation of digitally accessible course materials, acclimate them to the implementation of AT for students, and troubleshoot areas of difficulty or concern. The Specialist will be responsible for ensuring that students with sensory impairments are provided reasonable accommodations and are able to access all course materials. This may include sending materials to various vendors, working with the library to create accessible versions of class materials or remediating documents in house. The Specialist would be the primary source of information about the types or technology needed for use by students, the person dedicated to assessing individual student needs, and determining appropriate AT accommodations. Additionally, this role would be the liaison between the Accessibility Services Office (ASO) and our Course Development team on matters of access with respect to AT. The Specialist would manage a small case load of students whose primary accommodations include AT or accessible texts. Ongoing communication with students, staff and faculty around critical AT matters will be an area of responsibility for this role. Clear, timely communications are essential elements of the role as these will eradicate challenges and missed opportunities to resolve access problems. *Typical Core Duties : * Develop and implement programs to enhance the quality of the student experience; manage processes, outreach, content and finances * Act as a primary advising resource for students and faculty program requirements, academic degree progress, leaves of absence, cross-registration, adviser selection, and quality of life * Manage events and conferences including developing content, structure, and publicity, coordinating with other Harvard offices and groups, and managing logistical details * Advise student organizations on a variety of matters including risk reduction strategies, safe alcohol management, budgeting and goal setting * Produce and analyze reports to analyze program and event data * May determine accessibility eligibility and promote available resources and available options * May work with the Title IX office on best practices and coordination of the University's overall response to Title IX issues * Develop and implement comprehensive event management training programs for student organization leaders * Interpret and clarify local and University policies and procedures for student leaders * Ensure compliance with University policies and procedures and applicable legal rules and regulations *Basic Qualifications : * Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required * Minimum of 5 years' relevant work experience Additional Qualifications and Skills : * Master's Degree or Certification in Assistive Technology Specialist * Teachers of the Visually Impaired are strongly encouraged to apply Certificates and Licenses : Physical Requirements : Working Conditions : Harvard will require COVID vaccination for all Harvard community members who will have any on-campus presence. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. More information regarding the University's COVID vaccination requirement and exceptions may be found at the University's "COVID-19 Vaccine Information" webpage: http://www.harvard.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-information/. Additional Information : The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will not provide visa sponsorship for this position. In order to be considered for this role, a resume and cover letter must be submitted with application. The Division of Continuing Education (DCE) comprises several entities serving about 30,000 students annually. The Harvard Extension School, the Harvard Summer School, the Harvard Professional Development Programs and the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement allow Harvard to serve the learning needs of students across their life. For more than a century, Harvard Extension School has made Harvard faculty and teaching accessible to a diverse community of local, national, and international students. Harvard Extension School enrolls approximately 17,000 students per year in approximately 46 graduate and undergraduate liberal arts and professional fields. More than 1,500 open enrollment courses are offered year-round with over 600 available online are offered at affordable prices to our communities across the world. Harvard Summer School offers approximately 450 courses on the Harvard Campus to 11,000 secondary school, college and adult learners and more than 30 international study abroad programs for up to 600 students each summer. The Division also includes the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement with approximately 550 active members and Harvard Professional Development Programs offering 80 short noncredit courses to almost 4,000 learners annually. All formal offers will be made by FAS Human Resources. Harvard offers an outstanding benefits package including: Time Off: 3 - 4 weeks paid vacation, paid holiday break, 12 paid sick days, 11.5 paid holidays, and 3 paid personal days per year Medical/Dental/Vision: We offer a variety of excellent medical plans, dental & vision plans, all coverage begins as of your start date. Retirement: University-funded retirement plan with full vesting after 3 years of service. Tuition Assistance Program: Competitive tuition assistance program, $40 per class at the Harvard Extension School and discounted options through participating Harvard grad schools. Transportation: Harvard offers a 50% discounted MBTA pass as well as additional options to assist employees in their daily commute. Wellness options: Harvard offers programs and classes at little or no cost, including stress management, massages, nutrition, meditation and complimentary health services. Harvard access to athletic facilities, libraries, campus events and many discounts throughout metro Boston. Contact Information Leora Simon leorasimon@fas.harvard.edu Interim Director Accessibility Services Division of Continuing Education -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From athenpresident at gmail.com Thu Sep 30 14:08:05 2021 From: athenpresident at gmail.com (ATHEN President) Date: Thu Sep 30 14:08:36 2021 Subject: [Athen] Virtual STEM Accessibility Conference: Starting with Math Message-ID: Join us! ATHEN is hosting the first ever ?Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Accessibility: Starting with Math? virtual conference on February 10th and 11th, 2022. We are striving to create a diverse conference where experts can share their best practices, solutions, techniques, etc. for accessing and creating accessible STEM content in higher education. 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