<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Karen mentioned the VPAT and accessibility improvements, here is a <a href="http://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Accessibility_Guide">link to more context</a>, and here is a link to a <a href="http://youtu.be/pfY5eUYyY24">brief video shared at last year's AHEAD conference</a>. We also presented on this at <a href="http://accessinghigherground.org/wp/show1prop4grid2014.php?vpropid=1997&vday=Wednesday&vdis=grid">Accessing Higher Ground and have handouts up</a>. <br><br>Also, we have a webinar coming up
in February through the <a href="http://www.ahead.org/learn/virtual-learning/at_webinars_14_15">AHEAD Access to Technology series</a>.<br><br></div>To be clear though - ALEKS and WeBWorK share some functionality but not all features are the same. We are using WeBWorK within a variety of classes, and are using it for placement testing preparation, but are not yet using it for placement testing directly. <br><br></div>Kaela<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">--<br>Kaela Parks, Director<br>Disability Services<br>Portland Community College<br>971-722-4868 <a href="mailto:kaela.parks@pcc.edu" target="_blank">kaela.parks@pcc.edu</a><br><a href="http://www.pcc.edu/resources/disability" target="_blank">www.pcc.edu/resources/disability</a> </div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Paul E. Paire <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paire@temple.edu" target="_blank">paire@temple.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We started digging into this a bit more based this discussion and we believe that either the person submitting the exception request or the sales rep was a
bit … optimistic. We were forwarded an email from ALEKS that their engineers are working in conjunction with accessibility departments (at other universities) to improve the accessibility of the product, but won’t commit to a date.
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 15, 2015 12:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] ALEKS Accessibility<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, I’m very interested in talking to your faculty person. As Carmen Schafer mentioned in another email, I'd like to know more about how the two products compare - ALEKS and WebWork.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Paul - be aware that in the past McGraw-Hill has addressed the accessibility of the questions with graphic material by providing a check-box to either drop the question out of the placement exam for students with low vision or blindness
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Paul E. Paire <<a href="mailto:paire@temple.edu" target="_blank">paire@temple.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Temple, at least, is very interested in learning more about WebWork. (We are also evaluating ALEKS. One of my colleagues has reviewed their VPAT and says it's very thorough and informs me that they say they will be fully accessible in less
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<p>Hi Howard,<br>
The alternative we use is WebWork. It's open source and we have one faculty member who is very active in its development. We've done a lot of accessibility testing and created a VPAT for it that's just about to be published with WebWorK's latest update (that
includes many of our recommended accessibility updates). I would be happy to put you in touch with our faculty member if you want more information.<br>
I also would be happy to share the cursory accessibility testing we did on ALEKS last January. At that time they had no suggested alternatives to graphical problems. We suggested making the images available for us to print but never heard anything back on that.<br>
Let me know if I can help.<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It doesn't look like anyone replied to this question on ALEKS accessibility updates. Does anyone have any updated information? Is there any work being undertaken to make the graphical elements of the placement exam accessible through long
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We are investigating the current state of ALEKS accessibility. I read up on ATHEN posts from last year, and they were helpful. But now I am curious to know the outcome of the graphing issue. Is the company still not providing tactile graphs? Is ALEKS accessible
with the latest versions of screen readers? I have never used it myself but was led to believe that ALEKS was not fully accessible in the past. Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.<br>
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