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RE: Message warning visitors they are leaving website

Posted By Doug Hayman 02-01-2024 09:05:15 AM
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Barbara, I'm not quite getting what you're asking here. I've seen guidelines along the lines of "opens in a new tab" so the user knows where the focus moved to? As far as the YouTube video, would that be an embedded video that is of course, not on the university's servers but played while ...

RE: Are there any institutions that automatically pay for video captioning for faculty and staff videos?

Posted By Doug Hayman 01-18-2024 09:42:01 AM
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Marcie, When I worked at the University of Washington as part of Accessible Technology Services (ATS) we initiated a pilot project to encourage use of closed captions. That later became a funded "service" offering of UW IT. We didn't provide closed captions to everything but would instead look ...

RE: Accessible PDF org chart

Posted By Doug Hayman 01-12-2024 12:14:52 PM
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Dax Castro and Chad Chelius shared a great example at AHG in November. Note that the figure/path that surrounds the executive director in the chart is there so that the ALT tag says, "The following org chart uses heading levels to indicate who supervises whom. Each supervisor is indicated as a heading ...

Accessible PDF org chart Attachments

Posted By Doug Hayman 01-12-2024 12:14:51 PM
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RE: Vendor using Site Improve to monitor their Software, but will not supply ACR only Site Improve Reports

Posted By Doug Hayman 01-12-2024 08:53:12 AM
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Paul, My college uses Site Improve and it is important to note that the percentage score they show for accessibility is their own metric and not a true measure of accessibility, and they are up front with that. That said, there are a number of issues revealed there that are problematic ...

RE: Oracle Products and Pushing Accessibility

Posted By Doug Hayman 01-02-2024 02:56:31 PM
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Kara, In our 34-college system of community and technical colleges in Washington state we have been using PeopleSoft, called ctcLink for our use. The method we're required to follow is to report accessibility issues up to the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, SBCTC and then their ...

RE: Anyone have experience with Morphic Enterprise?

Posted By Doug Hayman 12-14-2023 09:41:41 AM
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Bill, We have it installed on a number of computers in our general lab. Going way back in time when I first began doing assistive tech in 1996 on Windows 3.x machines, we'd use a floppy disk to add on some accessibility tools that were not yet part of Windows. I was aware at the time that ...

RE: Tips for remediating math documents?

Posted By Doug Hayman 12-05-2023 09:15:00 AM
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Charity, My understanding of math access in PDFs is that one is limited to having it as an image accompanied by ALT text to describe an equation. In contrast, if math is marked up on a web site, a screen reader user can not only land upon the equation and hear it read back, they can navigate ...

RE: Color contrast in video conundrum

Posted By Doug Hayman 09-19-2023 01:34:33 PM
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Seyon, I'd suggest taking a look at: https://www.washington.edu/accesstech/videos/ Additionally you'll see on their guidelines the idea of planning in pre-production to film with enough space below the talking head so that there is space to show a name or for closed captions. And the AblePlayer ...

RE: Labster Accessibility – Lab Simulation Software with Built-in Screen Reader

Posted By Doug Hayman 09-12-2023 09:31:32 AM
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Rachel, I haven't used or tested that but looking at this page it appears that they've strived for accessibility: https://www.labster.com/accessibility But the mention of a built-in screen reader raises a giant red flag. That sounds similar to accessibility overlays in the essential challenge ...

RE: What do you do when there is equally effective alternative?

Posted By Doug Hayman 08-28-2023 02:35:39 PM
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Elizabeth, Sometimes, I think the alternative to inaccessible software would be to hire an assistant that acts as the intermediary between the student with a disability and the inaccessible software. And perhaps if you're paying quite a bit for that one-to-one support at your institution then it would ...

RE: Braille Note Touch and LMS

Posted By Doug Hayman 08-16-2023 09:25:42 AM
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Carmen, I had reached out to a tech savvy, screen reader using colleague who is way more in the know on such devices than me a few weeks ago in regards to problems with a Braille Note Touch connecting with and navigating an LMS mentioned on a list. Here is an edited version of his reply to my query: ...

RE: Question About Web Accessibility Vendor

Posted By Doug Hayman 06-05-2023 04:20:18 PM
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Laura, In looking at their web site they list a few companies that one would assume are current customers. Barry University has a statement on accessibility and a link with that company's logo. Five Guys burgers didn't seem to have any current accessibility links or a logo to that firm. Western Union, ...

RE: Question About Web Accessibility Vendor

Posted By Doug Hayman 06-05-2023 03:03:56 PM
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I was getting a variety of those kinds of emails a few months ago. They posed as knowledgeable (whatever the company was called) but had inaccessible attachments and questionable web accessibility as well. Made me wonder if they were acting officially/unofficially as a proxy to drum up business for others ...

RE: Issuu Digital Magazine Accessibility

Posted By Doug Hayman 05-23-2023 09:22:02 AM
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Rachel, When I was at the University of Washington a few years back, the person who was then CIO (2 people back from current one) was putting out an annual UW IT document using Issu and the key people in our Accessible Technology Services notified them of the accessibility obstacles with Issu. ...

RE: VPAT Review and NDA

Posted By Doug Hayman 04-06-2023 09:32:43 AM
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Seems like a bad policy on that company's part. When at UW we were working on getting improvements for accessibility with Panopto lecture capture and had to agree to keep somethings to just our team, some new features they planned to rollout that were not yet public and would improve accessibility. ...

RE: Open captions: Does this enhance learning and boost accessibility?

Posted By Doug Hayman 03-29-2023 03:14:18 PM
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Closed captions are the better way to go. I think we used to do open captions back in the day when TVs had or didn't have a captioning encoder in them so the burned it gave us captions no matter the physical equipment we played a VHS tape on. With burned in captions you are providing to the sighted ...

RE: Trying to OCR Book Containing Passages in Apache

Posted By Doug Hayman 03-22-2023 02:13:46 PM
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Laura, Did the Apache people have a written language or is that written using the International Phonetic characters? My wife and I live within the boundaries of the Suquamish Port Madison reservation and their language is Lushootseed also used by some other Coast Salish people. I even looked into ...

RE: Remediate inaccessible PDFs in LMS

Posted By Doug Hayman 03-13-2023 11:43:03 AM
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Adina, It was in 2015: https://accessinghigherground.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ATHEN-SSW-DRS-Working-to-Make-Documents-Distributed-through-LMS-Accessible.pdf Doug Hayman IT Accessibility Coordinator Information Technology Olympic College dhayman@olympic.edu (360) 475-7632

RE: Remediate inaccessible PDFs in LMS

Posted By Doug Hayman 03-10-2023 09:28:11 AM
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Debbie, I suspect that faculty won't take this on and succeed, not because they don't care about accessibility but because making accessible PDF files is just such a pain in the butt to do well. It takes so many hours to learn the skills needed to make accessible PDFs and I suspect that many would ...