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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Laura,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I don’t have specific advice for Korean language courses, but I just recently put together some
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6EgGcCjPAGznYOEYHpKbkLU8SAm1fe_JeA-ky5rYqE/edit">
guidance on adding language attributes to Canvas content</a> to ensure that foreign languages are read out in a comprehensible way to screen readers. (It looks like UCLA uses Canvas, so I hope this is useful.) This is something faculty or their TAs could do
to ensure that content rendered in Korean characters in Canvas is comprehensible.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is particularly relevant for languages that use non-Latin character systems because they are usually rendered very poorly by screen readers when tagged as being in English. Here’s a
<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AdlhB8uf4A87wYKKW2iSjyBMphvomZkp/view">
video example of various Asian languages read by VoiceOver in English</a> in Canvas (including Korean), which may be useful in convincing faculty of the impact language attributes have on comprehension.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(By the way -- if anyone knows of a less tedious way to do this than adding <span lang=”ko”> in the HTML editor for each string of text, I’m all ears.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<br>
Laura<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">-- <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Laura Hamrick</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Captioning and Accessibility Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Office of Information Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">University of Colorado Boulder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:laura.r.hamrick@colorado.edu">laura.r.hamrick@colorado.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">(303) 735-5782<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman13.u.washington.edu> on behalf of "Nunez, Laura" <lnunez@saonet.ucla.edu><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 1:12 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"athen-list@u.washington.edu" <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Athen] Teaching Korean to blind students<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">Hello,<o:p></o:p></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Does anyone have any resources (audio, electronic, braille) for aiding students taking Korean language classes at the university level?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Laura Nunez<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Alt Format Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">UCLA – Center for Accessible Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">A255 Murphy Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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