<div>1. Time Time Time to convert all the inaccessible formats, especially STEM with complex math and images. This includes publisher materials, institutional materials, faculty produced materials.</div>
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<div>2. Understaffing due to lack of understanding on the part of administrators of the time-consuming nature of alt format production and the necessity that we produce alt formats that meet student needs and OCR requirements.</div>
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<div>3. Training that consumes too much time because most of the stafrf consist of student workers or part time staff from other departments who move on after a semester or two.</div>
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<div>4. Lack of a central alt format production solution like the HTCTU or AMAC. Institutions in my state refuse to collaborate as they fear loss of independence and autonomy.</div>
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<div>5. Too many students who are unfamilair with alt formats and how to use them and agencies with tighter and tighter budgets who refuse to pay for sufficient training of their student clients.</div>
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<div>Those are my top 5. And ditto to what everyone else has said so far.</div>
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<div>Julie K Balassa<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Hunziker, Dawn A - (hunziker) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hunziker@email.arizona.edu" target="_blank">hunziker@email.arizona.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">I’d like to add issues with “extra” or complimentary materials provided by publishers. This can include homework, quizzes, additional reading, learning support, etc. We’ve had instructors require these complimentary materials and since many are (were?) flash-based, we end up having to basically re-type the entire assignment.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Alongside STEM I would add foreign language materials for difficulty in conversion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Dawn <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Dawn Hunziker<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt"> athen-list [mailto:<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Teresa Haven<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 02, 2014 7:40 AM
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">I’ll third all of what Susan and Kathleen said. Also, even when students do know what works best for them, faculty often don’t understand how to create an accessible document or just think that because it’s digital it’s automatically accessible. Getting the faculty educated in how to do things right from the beginning (so that they can post last-second content without needing conversion), without also having to teach each one of them individually, is a growing challenge. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Tahoma','sans-serif';FONT-SIZE:10pt"> athen-list [<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathleen Cahill<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 02, 2014 7:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] AltFormat Survey<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10.5pt">Susan, you summed it up so well. Especially Penguin and Random House. I would also add that science simulations online are difficult to make accessible and students with disabilities lose out on those important teaching tools.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10.5pt">Our faculty sometimes provides course materials and class slides with little to no lead time for conversion. Getting them to think ahead more is tough. I second Susan’s comment about the difficulties of what DAISY books work with what readers. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 10:13 AM<br><b>To: </b>Access Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Athen] AltFormat Survey<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Penguin</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Random House</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Only half kidding. Actually, not kidding at all. These two publishers give me the biggest grief. Aside from that:</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p><u></u><span><span>1.<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Publishers and others assuming that Bookshare is good enough. It is good for certain types of students, but not for all of them.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span><span>2.<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Difficulty in STEM alt format – the conversion process, how much manual labor is involved, how complex the tools are.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span><span>3.<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">The assumption that an alt format person is also a content expert. </span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span><span>4.<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">A hundred different formats for a hundred different reasons, and needing specialized software to access some of them (Learning Ally and Bookshare and ePub and Daisy and and and) rather than the tools the student may already have.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><u></u><span><span>5.<span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><u></u><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Professors and teaching staff that don’t understand how important alternate format is, and how they can provide it easily themselves without our intervention.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR:#1f497d">Those would be my top five. I’m interested to see what others come up with.</span><span><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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