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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi Vanessa,<br>
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Some very smart people that I work with won a small grant from Instructure Canvas and created such a piece of software:
<a href="https://online.ucf.edu/teach-online/resources/udoit/" target="_blank">https://online.ucf.edu/teach-online/resources/udoit/</a>.<br>
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<font color="000000">At the University of Central Florida, we use UDOIT (Universal Design Online content Inspection Tool).</font></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"><font color="000000"><font color="000000">
</font>This product only reviews one course at a time, but it reviews tools, files, and pages that are within a specific Canvas course (the faculty have the ability to run it on their own courses) and it identifies errors and provides possible suggestions to
fix most items. More information is available on the website above about what items it can and cannot examine but it has a lot of nice features to it. Unfortunately, it cannot currently review any
<font color="000000">attachments such as Word or PDFs for accessibility<font color="000000">.<br>
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<font color="000000">Even though it was created <font color="000000">to be used with Canvas, the sour<font color="000000">ce code is available to the public<font color="000000"><font color="000000">.
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF185476"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> athen-list [athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu] on behalf of Preast, Vanessa [vanessa.preast@dmu.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 12, 2016 9:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Automated Accessibility Checking Software for LMS and intranet<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Hello,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">I am interested in what other institutions are doing for checking accessibility for content within your private, password-protectd areas, especially the Learning
Management System and any Sharepoint sites.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">What LMS are you using?</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">What automated system, if any, do you use to check this site?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Symbol; color:#1F497D"><span style="">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">What procedures or processes do you use to inventory the accessibility status for documents in the LMS and internal sites? Do you have a batch analysis software?
Do you use manual spot-checking? </span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Please share (on the list or by private email) how you ensure content within these areas is accessible, especially if you have large amounts of content in form
of documents created before the accessibility initiatives started. How do you ensure online courses are accessible?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">We are using D2L Brightspace, so I would be especially interested in hearing from institutions using that system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Vanessa</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Vanessa Preast, Ph.D. DVM</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Digital Accessibility & Instructional Specialist
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif; font-variant:small-caps; color:#5A2781">Des Moines University</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#5A2781"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Center for Teaching and Learning</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">3200 Grand Avenue</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">Des Moines, IA 50312</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D">515.271.1535</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:vanessa.preast@dmu.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">vanessa.preast@dmu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
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