<div><div dir="auto">Hi David. We use both Brightspace and Read and Write here at PCC. We are rather fond of the Chrome extension but the Desktop version is efficacious as well. For exams and quizzes we find that the “Screenshot Reader” feature is a good work around for this especially when a student discovers this issue mid exam. Depending on the version of RW you use there may be an additional extension to enable this feature. There is a bit of a lag associated with this tool so I always sort of promote it as a back up tool over the other TTS features but it works pretty well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have also found that, and my knowledge is not as thorough in this area, but there is an adjustment that the instructor themselves can make in the way that the exam is configured for individual accommodated students who need to use Brightspace with TTS/RW. It has something to do with enabling the ability to make selections of text such as you would for copying and pasting, which is frequently disabled to prevent students from extracting sections of the exam to share with others.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Your instructional support branch may know more about this or I am happy to check in with ours about altering these settings.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would love to hear more about the way you use Windows Narrator in the Brightspace environment. I know that there have been vast improvements to this screen reader though it sort of remains on the outs with the AT community in comparison to applications such as JAWS NVDA and VoiceOver.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best Regards,</div><div dir="auto">Erik</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:49 AM Schwarte, David M. <<a href="mailto:schwarte@purdue.edu">schwarte@purdue.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our campus has recently started using Brightspace. Technically, Fall is the first semester Brightspace is not in pilot mode. Read & Write users are not able to have quizzes and exams read. The same quizzes and exams are readable via
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone found a solution to this issue? I also suspect Kurzweil 3000 may have a similar issues so I would be interested in solutions for that software as well. I am also interested in any workarounds, since summer finals are coming
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance for any assistance.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Schwarte<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000" size="2">Erik Ferguson</font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2">Alternative Media Technician</font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2">PCC Disability Services Assistive Technology Team </font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2">Contact us for questions and support at: </font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2">Phone: 971-722-TECH (971-722-8324) </font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2"><a href="mailto:access-tech-group@pcc.edu" target="_blank">access-tech-group@pcc.edu</a> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="2"><b>Please Note: I am not in office Tuesday or Thursday. For immediate response please use the email and number listed in signature above.</b></font></div></div></div></div></div>