[Athen] Screen Reader Accessible version of Building Java Programs

[Karthikeyan, Ramya via athen-list]

Hello,

I have also had similar experiences with missing images in textbooks from Bookshare in the past year. I ended up reaching out to Bookshare a few times to add the images/image descriptions or reached out to the publisher mentioning missing images (for low vision users) in Bookshare file if image descriptions were present. Bookshare provided the file within a couple of weeks, but it can get hectic at the beginning of Fall with no ATN..

Ramya Karthikeyan
Alternative Format Specialist
UCLA Center for Accessible Education
310-825-1501 (CAE line)

http://www.cae.ucla.edu/

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Hi all,

I just want to ask if anyone has looked in depth at the files being provided by Bookshare? I pulled the Word files for this book and, even without having the original publisher PDF to compare to, there are some red flags like images omitted, figure headings listed but no figures included and that was just in looking at the first few pages of this. This is a Pearson book so I would hope if Julia reached out to Pearson and explained the need for screen reader accessibility that they could provide a better copy than this. I had one of my technicians who is a computer science student take a look at this file. She has 6 years of experience with Java and 2 years of document conversion experience working in our office and she was concerned that a student would be given such a poorly converted Word document. We would be happy to help with any conversion needs.

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Adrienne



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It’s on bookshare.org.



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Subject: [Athen] Screen Reader Accessible version of Building Java Programs

Hello all,

Does anyone have access to a screen reader accessible version of “Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach 5th Edition” Author(s): Stuart Reges; Marty Stepp, Publisher: Pearson, ISBN :9780135471944.



Many thanks,

Julia Herosian (she/her)

Access Technology and Digital Accessibility Specialist

Accessibility Services Office

Harvard Division of Continuing Education
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