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RE: AI & image accessibility

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-27-2024 11:08:32 AM
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I have started looking into using AI to describe graphs. In the same way that automatic captioning is not perfect, the AI descriptions are not, but they are a huge time-saver in that they provide a great base-line for an expert in the field to edit. Far easier to correct than to start from scratch. ...

RE: Daisy File Conversion

Posted By Sharon Austin 06-21-2023 08:35:02 AM
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Laura, I absolute love the directive you received; it demonstrates a real commitment to making it work for the student. I wish more universities supported directives such as yours. Among the people I've forwarded your question to, one of them has familiarity with DAISY, so when I hear back from her, ...

RE: Daisy File Conversion

Posted By Sharon Austin 06-21-2023 08:10:56 AM
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Elizabeth, your knowledge is an absolutely amazing resource -- thank you so much for your reply, and sharing! I will be checking out the links you've given us! Wow! ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic Technology Accessibility Specialist The University of Tampa ------------------- ...

RE: Daisy File Conversion

Posted By Sharon Austin 06-21-2023 06:43:00 AM
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This is tough. I'll forward your question to some others, way more knowledgeable than I on DAISY, who may have an answer for you. That said, I have come to learn that many Blind do not know the braille needed for certain kinds of academic material, and must gain better competency of assistive technology. ...

RE: The HECVAT product distributed by EDUCAUSE is not accessbile

Posted By Sharon Austin 06-15-2023 06:08:06 AM
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Good morning Cliff, thank you so much. If you know nothing else, please know that this is being worked on as we speak. I am in the accessibility group as well as in the HECVAT group, and I can tell you that this is a focus of our attention. Thank you so, so much for your commitment to accessibility. ...

RE: Privacy / Security Impact Assessment of Assistive Technologies

Posted By Sharon Austin 05-10-2023 06:55:45 AM
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Joshua, these are phenomenal resources -- would you mind if I shared them, and/or possibly used them in training aids? ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic Technology Accessibility Specialist The University of Tampa ------------------------------

RE: Privacy / Security Impact Assessment of Assistive Technologies

Posted By Sharon Austin 05-09-2023 06:38:25 AM
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I have to tell you that this is something very near and dear to my heart. There's a lot of password criteria, especially those that require special characters and/or upper-case letters, that provide challenges for certain assistive technologies. Time-restrictions and time-outs are certainly problematic ...

RE: Input about AI from actual members of the community with disabilities?

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-24-2023 08:42:49 AM
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This is absolutely invaluable information, William, thank you so much. ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic Technology Accessibility Specialist The University of Tampa ------------------------------

Passing on NPR article about discrimination against parents with disabilities, and asking for input from community as it applies to Education

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-24-2023 06:45:00 AM
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There's an article from NPR regarding discrimination against parents with disabilities; AI may discriminate against parents with disabilities, new investigation shows https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2023/04/13/ai-discrimination-parents-disabilities I'm curious if anyone has any stats on the relationship ...

Input about AI from actual members of the community with disabilities?

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-24-2023 06:39:00 AM
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Good evening, Ally friends. I'm curious about this community's input as it applies to AI. There's no stoping this thing, of course, but I worry about privacy issues and security issues with AI. It's my "sense" but I have no data to prove it, that a population that is dependent upon assistive devices ...

RE: Passing on info: arXiv Forum How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-21-2023 01:26:06 PM
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I one million percent agree with you, the forum was drop-dead PHENOMENAL. I agree that the fastest way to make a PDF accessible is to find it in an HTML format. It takes SO much training to learn how to make a PDF accessible, and the resources of time, training, and salaries are ones few of us can afford. ...

RE: Trying to OCR Book Containing Passages in Apache

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-06-2023 02:34:09 PM
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Honestly, I think Gary Morin's recommendation is probably the only realistic option. "Technically" speaking, an alphabet exists, but it will be poorly worded, and not sound like the normal Native American speech when rendered. We have very few libraries that map to Native American languages, which is ...

Passing on info: arXiv Forum How do we make accessible research papers a reality?

Posted By Sharon Austin 04-05-2023 09:44:00 AM
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Passing on information about an upcoming forum on making research papers accessible hosted by ARXIV.org https://arxiv.org/ arXiv Forum How do we make accessible research papers a reality? https://info.arxiv.org/about/accessibility_forum.html ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic ...

RE: Turnitin and AI writing detection feature

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-22-2023 07:40:18 AM
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Thank you so much. So much is going on, so quickly, it is really hard to keep up. I am curious, was the recommendation to use videos to get around cheating? I do that too, but we found that an extension called Transcript or sometimes advertised as Transcript Study is being advertised to students as ...

Turnitin and AI writing detection feature

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-21-2023 08:39:00 AM
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Turnitin regarding their AI writing detection feature. According to their recent announcement, the feature is scheduled to be released on April 4, 2023. The AI detection feature will only work for content submitted in English. https://www.turnitin.com/solutions/ai-writing https://www.turnitin.co ...

RE: Aquifer Request

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-21-2023 06:47:53 AM
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Brad, the questions you are asking is one I think all of us are asking. We share your pain. Even if you get the inevitable pushback, there is value in the documentation of asking for it. Keep asking. Consider some observations from Section 508.gov's FAQ page on VPATs the section called, "I have ...

RE: Remediate inaccessible PDFs in LMS

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-21-2023 06:37:12 AM
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We rely on the Library links not only because of the savings in time, but for the very purposeful goal of taking advantage of the accessibility assets the Libraries pay so much money for. Libraries spend a lot of money to pay for accessible, inclusive technology -- unlike many commercial endeavors. We ...

RE: badges for accessibility training

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-11-2023 04:02:09 AM
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If you have the Canvas LMS, the "Badgr" badging system has been incorporated into it as part of the Learning Management System. In Canvas, it is called, "Credintials" https://www.instructure.com/higher-education/products/canvas/canvas-credentials I believe it is also available on a more generic basis ...

RE: HighEdWeb Annual Conference Call for Proposals

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-10-2023 06:02:24 AM
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Thank you, Mark, much appreciated ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic Technology Accessibility Specialist The University of Tampa ------------------------------

RE: Volunteers?

Posted By Sharon Austin 03-09-2023 07:37:39 AM
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Much appreciated, thank you so much! ------------------------------ Sharon Austin Academic Technology Accessibility Specialist The University of Tampa ------------------------------