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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I would not recommend this approach as form fields are more difficult to deal with than simply writing in the answer where the hyphens and/or underscores are.
Also, with form fields, if you decide to print the test for sighted users, the fields do not show unless they have information in them. Also, if you need to go to braille, it is easier with hyphens than with form fields. Plus, it is much easier to create the
test with the hyphens than creating with forms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Robert Lee Beach<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Assistive Technology Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">7250 State Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kansas City, KS 66112<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> athen-list <athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Samantha Johns<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 7, 2019 1:42 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <athen-list@u.washington.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You can include a labeled form field and do this using MS Word, here is a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:#333333">“The one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve
people’s lives just by doing our job a little better?” ― Steve Krug</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 11:25 AM Laura Hamrick <<a href="mailto:Laura.R.Hamrick@colorado.edu">Laura.R.Hamrick@colorado.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks all - I’m glad this is getting discussed! I ran into this question recently and wasn’t sure what the best practice was.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I do have one question though. My understanding was that different screen readers have different default settings for whether they read out punctuation or not, including underscores
and hyphens. My concern about relying on punctuation alone to indicate blanks was that if you don’t hear the underscores read out, then it might be very hard to find where the blank is in the sentence or you may not even realize there should be a blank.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Is it reasonable to assume that students who use screen readers will either have their settings configured so that underscores are read out or that they’ll be able to quickly make
that adjustment once they realize it is a fill in the blank question and they don’t hear a blank?
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Laura<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="color:black">athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>> on behalf of Susan Kelmer <<a href="mailto:Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu" target="_blank">Susan.Kelmer@colorado.edu</a>><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, January 7, 2019 at 9:58 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ve always defaulted to the dashes as that was what I was taught. It’s good to hear I wasn’t wrong. Haha!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">-Susan</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Beach<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 7, 2019 9:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’m not Susan and I don’t play one on TV either, but I am a screen reader user. I would not use the text, just the dashes as the screen reader announces
it much better. Having to always hear (fill in the blank) for every question gets very annoying and can create cognative overload for some students. Plus, it doesn’t convert as well for students who do not use assistive technology.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Robert Lee Beach</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Assistive Technology Specialist</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Kansas City Kansas Community College</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">7250 State Avenue</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Phone: 913-288-7671</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Robinson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 7, 2019 10:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#323E4F">Hi Susan –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#323E4F">This morning a Spanish faculty member sent me a document with what appears to be a fill-in-the-blanks assignment,
not a test or quiz:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">1.Cúal es tu clase favorita ( what is your favorite class)?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">2.Quién es tu profesor favorito? (Who is your favrite profesor?)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">Mi profesor favorito es el profesor____________/la profesora ____________.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">3.Cúal es tu especialización (what is your major)?
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">Mi especialización es ______________.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">4.Qúe clases tomas para (what clases you take for) tu especialización?
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">Tomo (I take) ______________, ____________________ y _______________________.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">5.Qué hay (What there is / there are) en tu clase?
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">En mi clase hay una (a) ____________, un (a) ___________, unos (some) ___________, y unas (some)__________________.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">6.Qué edificios (what buildings) hay en el campus de GGC?
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">En GGC hay una ____________, un ___________...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">7.Qúe estudias (what you study) este semestre (this semester)?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">Este semestre estudio (I study) ______________, ____________________ y _______________________.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">8.Qúe clases tomas (what you take)?
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<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">Tomo (I take) ______________, ____________________ y _______________________.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">9. Como es tu horario semanal? (how is your weekly schedule?)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msonospacing" style="margin-left:.5in">El lunes (on Monday) yo tengo (I have) arte a las once de la mañana (at 11 am)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#323E4F"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#323E4F">So… she could replace each line with either - - - -, or [fill in the blank]?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#007048">Christine Robinson</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#007048">
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">| Technical Trainer/Writer | Center for Teaching Excellence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:black">Georgia Gwinnett College | 678-407-</span><b><u><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#00704A">5193</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> athen-list [<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Kelmer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 7, 2019 11:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Christine, unless I have information from a student to say otherwise, I put in four dashes where there is a blank. A screen reader user who also reads
Braille recognizes this as a fill in the blank. But you could make it more explicit and use brackets and “fill in the blank” to indicate that there is something to fill in, aka [fill in the blank]. A screen reader would likely want to turn on the punctuation
so they would hear the brackets to give them warning that there is something outside of the normal text.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Generally, though, I only see these fill in the blank things on tests, and this is why blind students get extended time – because it takes longer to
navigate through these things and be able to “see” the answers and fill in the space.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#1F497D">Are faculty asking you for testing purposes, or for something else?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Susan Kelmer</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Alternate Format Production Program Manager</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Disability Services</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">University of Colorado Boulder</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">303-735-4836</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> athen-list <<a href="mailto:athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list-bounces@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Christine Robinson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 7, 2019 8:40 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Access Technology Higher Education Network <<a href="mailto:athen-list@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">athen-list@u.washington.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Athen] Accessible "fill in the blank"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Hi all –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">What’s the best way of providing “fill in the blank” space in a Word document? Faculty members are asking me how
to do this in an accessible manner, for students using screen readers – and I’m “drawing a blank,” so to speak.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">The traditional approaches have been
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">typing a line</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msolistparagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">For example:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msolistparagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Water molecules contain the elements ________ and _________.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msolistparagraph"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ol start="2" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">leaving blank space
</span><o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msolistparagraph" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">For example:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">List the elements in a molecule of carbon:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-m6494325090948220606msolistparagraph"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">With either traditional approach, if the document is filled out electronically, then the line or space is intended
to be replaced with typewritten text. If the document is printed, then the line or space is written on by hand.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">If the document were to be printed, then I would use paragraph spacing for my example in #2, so that there aren’t
repeated blanks, but that wouldn’t be a good idea if students were going to answer the questions on their computers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">There are so many details to making electronic documents accessible! And I know it would be easier if faculty
members put their content on web pages instead of in electronic documents, but that isn’t a change we can make in the near future.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Thanks for any help you can offer –</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#222A35">Chris</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#007048">Christine Robinson</span></b><span style="color:#007048">
</span><span style="color:#222A35">| Technical Trainer/Writer | Center for Teaching Excellence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#007048">Georgia Gwinnett College</span></b><span style="color:#222A35"> | 1000 University Center Lane| Lawrenceville, GA 30043</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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