<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> Hi Debee,<div><br></div><div>The CCC Accessibility Center has created some self-paced Alt Media Courses that are located in the <a href="https://catalog.onlinenetworkofeducators.org/browse/accessibility">CVC-OEI's Catalog</a> including:</div><div><ul><li>An Overview of Reading, Writing, and Text-to-Speech Tools</li><li>Introduction to Alternate Media</li><li>Alternate Media Production Manual </li><li>Alternate Media: Workflow Strategies for PDF </li></ul><div>In the CVC-OEI Catalog, please select the icon "Accessibility Essentials" for more course listings. We are currently in the process of refreshing many of course courses, which will be launched fairly soon, beginning with Canvas Accessibility (which will feature some STEM accessibility support.) </div></div><div><br></div><div>Currently, these alt media courses are not yet available on the Commons as we haven't received much interest from the Colleges to create, adapt, and track professional development for our staff. If you are interested in adopting some of the content and adapting to fit your institutional training needs, please contact me for more information. Please note that best practices and technical information may update due to changing technology and system needs. This means that the Commons copy downloaded for any of Commons downloaded courses will be a snapshot of the content, and may not reflect updated content. I hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Warmly, </div><div><br></div><div><b>Liesl Madrona, M.Ed. <i>Specialized in Learning Design & Technology</i> <span style="white-space:pre"> </span></b></div><div>Accessibility Center Instructional Designer <br></div><div><h3 style="border-radius:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(85,85,85);margin-top:5px;font-weight:400;font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:20px;line-height:27px"><span style="border-radius:0px"><a href="https://www.name-coach.com/liezl-madrona-81b3cdc8-ddb4-4850-98cf-1296886c96ba" style="border-radius:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(136,91,192);outline:0px" target="_blank"><img alt="A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature" src="https://www.name-coach.com/images/emailsig/email-sig.jpeg" style="border-radius:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:middle;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:15px"> </a></span></h3></div><div><br></div><div>California Community Colleges Technology Center</div><div>W (650) 524-5439<br></div><div>3536 Butte Campus Drive, Oroville, CA 95965</div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 12:04 PM <<a href="mailto:athen-list-request@mailman12.u.washington.edu">athen-list-request@mailman12.u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send athen-list mailing list submissions to<br>
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Has anyone done any accessibility testing for Padlet they are willing to share?<br>
<a href="https://padlet.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://padlet.com/</a><br>
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Alex Marositz<br>
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California State University, Dominguez Hills<br>
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Hello Debee<br>
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I know this is not exactly what you asked for, but, I've been spending evenings during the pandemic answering questions in student assistive technology user groups about accessing courseware, particularly if they are in Blackboard 9.1 since that's what I'm familiar with.<br>
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This isn't a fully flushed out thought, but I think there needs to be some kind of relatively standard best practice for students when they encounter courseware that poses a barrier whether it is technically accessible or not. I know that on my campus, we spend a lot of time developing equally effective alternate access plans even when there is no obvious barrier. I wish students knew to request to have access to them or would talk to their instructor about them immediately, not delay until they can talk to they're DSS councilor or wait to hear back from someone on a Facebook group, none of whom have a great understanding of the circumstances.<br>
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And, from my prospective, updating the equally effective alternate access plan only will make it more effective the next time it comes up.<br>
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California State University, Dominguez Hills<br>
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Has anyone ever seen an alternate media course in Canvas commons?<br>
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I'm on vacation now but I'm puttering around putting together a Canvas course on using alternate media services at our college.<br>
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I've got lots of content already but was hoping to find existing material over in Canvas commons.<br>
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I haven't yet, but maybe I need different search keywords.<br>
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I'm really hoping my dean will like this course. I email out all sorts of info to our students and turning it in to a course is super fun.<br>
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If you have any thoughts about material in Canvas commons that might be useful, let me know. Unless my college forbids it, I intend to put this course in to commons as well.<br>
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