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size=3>Actually, I'm scoping out the development of an accessibility production
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service for our campus, and was wondering whether anyone has done that somewhere
else.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=893075917-24032008>I am not quite sure what you are looking for when you
specify an "accessibility production service", but if you are looking for an
example of such a service on a campus, there is the Badger Accessibility
Services at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (<A
href="http://www.bas.wisc.edu/">http://www.bas.wisc.edu/</A>). I believe
they do a lot of alternate media production, but may serve as just one example
(there are others, I just cannot think of them right now).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000000 size=3>Our faculty are generally not experienced web developers,
and there is interest in </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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providing a service that will work with their online course materials and either
redesign </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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or retrofit them to be accessible.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=893075917-24032008>In some respects, it sounds like you are looking
at an entity to support faculty in the creation of online materials (that
are also accessible). Instructional designers that also have training in
aspects of accessibility/content usability would be ideal as the designers could
direct faculty during the content creation process. Additionally, such
designers would be versed in using the various campus technologies in such a way
that retrofitting (where possible) would be a simple
process.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=893075917-24032008>If possible, I would put this entity outside of a
Disabled Student Services program. You could certainly have dialogue
between such program groups, but I would suggest keeping them
separate.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=893075917-24032008>take care,<BR>Sean</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>