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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Remember that Learning Ally records STEM materials with human narration. Although the student would have to follow along in the book, rather than on screen, the equations would probably be read more accurately.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gaeir (rhymes with "fire") Dietrich<br>408-996-6047 or 408-996-4636</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailmand13.u.washington.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alexa Schriempf<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br><b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Alternative To Kurzweil 3000 for STEM<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I have a student who, due to concussions, has a visual convergence disorder in which her eyes struggle to focus on printed text and images. She is very successfully using Kurzweil 3000 to both zoom in and listen to voiceover audio. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>However, many of her textbooks are STEMs, and quite a few of them have scientific notation within each line of text. Our scanning services are too under-resourced to edit each line, and Kurzweil can't voice each line gracefully enough such that the student could ignore the garbled voice. Essentially, each line boils down to sounding something like, "The coefficient variable of X *garble* multiplied by the coefficient Y *garble*..." It should be saying X squared, and Y factorial. This is just a small example of the problem -- in reality, magnify this by 30 or 40 instances per page, per book. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Some of her books are available in ePub, and I'm working closely with those to make them formatted and readable more fluently by Kurzweil. Others of her books however are in our most favored PDF format. With those, Kurzweil is simply not an option. I am having the student test out our CCTV to magnify the book onto a very large flat screen monitor. By increasing the size and adjusting the contrast, I am hoping that she'll be able to read the texts without inducing the usual fatigue and migraines. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My question to the list: what other technologies/solutions/workarounds have been used in these situations? Voice over audio would be helpful but getting the text enlarged is most key. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks!<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Alexa Schriempf, Access Tech Consultant</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Office for Disability Services<br>Teaching and Learning with Technology: Accessibility Group</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#666666'>Adaptive Technology Services, University Libraries<br>Penn State</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/" target="_blank">https://sites.psu.edu/aschriempf/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://equity.psu.edu/ods" target="_blank">http://equity.psu.edu/ods</a><span style='color:#666666'><br></span><a href="http://tlt.its.psu.edu/" target="_blank">http://tlt.its.psu.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/adaptivetechnologies.html" target="_blank">http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/adaptivetechnologies.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>