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Others are suggesting good ideas for technologies to use to provide description and/or tactile graphics. If you or your staff will be writing the descriptions and haven't done much of that before, you might be interested in our guidelines for STEM image description.
Tactile graphics may be a good solution, depending on the images and the student, but the research that led to these guidelines found they were less useful than the blind participants expected them to be. A well structured description can be very effective,
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-Madeleine</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span><Norwich>, Lorraine S <<a href="mailto:lnorwich@bu.edu">lnorwich@bu.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span>Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Friday, June 13, 2014 4:49 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Alternate Media digest <<a href="mailto:altmedia@htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu">altmedia@htclistserv.htctu.fhda.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Athen] Biology Diagrams in distance education class<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">HI<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have a blind student in a distance education program who has to take a Biology class. The class is 7 weeks with a lot of diagrams embedded in the distance education blackboard course. She does not have good tactile ability and relies
on information being verbally described.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any ides, thoughts on how to make this work would be helpful<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sorry about cross posting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lorraine<o:p></o:p></p>
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