[Athen] Canvas and Dragon Naturally Speaking

[foreigntype at gmail.com]

Hi all,

Nuance has been hard-pressed to keep up with all the cool, useful,
necessary tools many of us depend on in voice recognition and voice
navigation software. That said, the ease of use of voice navigation with
DNS Individual Professional has fallen by the wayside and I've found an
add-on tool/utility program which *helps* make many of the DNS tools
function better or replaces those that have fallen out of development. The
utility program is called VoxAid, downloadable online and seamlessly
integrated into the DNS toolbar. There's a version of this software
specifically for assistive technology, another for notetaking, and another
for mind-mapping. Among other distinct advantages that this add-on offers,
there is a more reliable mouse-grid function for voice navigation (an
important tool as Cath pointed out!), as well as a great tool to create
macros which can be customized for voice navigation, repetitive keystrokes,
or repeated functions. Here's a link to check it out. I don't know if
Michael (developer) offers demos other than what's available on the
website. https://voxaid.co.uk/voxaid-at-edition-for-dsa-and-access-to-work/

Mostly what I've seen in my work with Dragon NS is a "failed" interaction
for DNS to dictate directly into websites. Readers Digest explanation is
website development & online software programs' HTML code. Doesn't matter,
really. There are some workarounds that take some getting used to but which
DO work: principally, using the DNS Dictation Box and taking the extra
steps to set it to open automatically, then voice SELECT ALL and COPY THAT,
CLICK TRANSFER and paste into the desired location (browser bar, text box,
etc.). Learning to use the mouse grid for navigation and practice to become
OK with the commands needed to move the mouse and select by voice is also
important. There are some decent practice exercises for just this very task
included in the last version of the DNS 15.0 Workbook. Here's a link for
that, too:
https://www.nuance.com/content/dam/nuance/en_us/collateral/dragon/guide/gd-dragon-professional-individual-and-dragon-legal-individual-workbook-en-us.pdf

Hope this is helpful in general, even though it's not specific to Canvas!


Wink Harner
Accessibility Consultant/Alternative Text Production
The Foreign Type

Portland OR
foreigntype at gmail.com
480-984-0034

This email was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Please forgive
quirks, misrecognitions, or errata .


On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 9:30 AM Stager, Catherine <
Catherine.Stager at frontrange.edu> wrote:


> Hi Lori,

>

> Perhaps you could clarify a bit… is it voice input or voice navigation

> that is being sought?

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> Much of how accessible the Canvas platform is depends on the

> implementation by your university. I was able to input voice text when

> working in Canvas a couple years ago, but did not attempt navigating.  I

> would have tried using mousegrid to do so.

>

> Best regards,

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> Cath

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> Catherine M. Stager

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> Does anyone know about this issue with Dragon Naturally Speaking in

> Canvas? I found that it is probably still not accessible based on using *Canvas

> with speech recognition software*

> <https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Accessibility/Using-Canvas-with-speech-recognition-software/td-p/127378>.

> The last comment was in 2020.

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