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RE: AccessText Network Gone?

Posted By Brian Ward 04-03-2024 10:09:16 AM
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Here AAP (publishers.org) response to my inquiry to them: Hi Brian – thank you for reaching out. Please see response that went out earlier this week below: You may have received an email from Georgia Tech this morning stating that it was discontinuing its provision of ATN services. We learned ...

How to evaluate ePub files for accessibility

Posted By Brian Ward 11-08-2023 08:09:00 AM
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Hi friends, I am looking for advice about tools and methods for how to evaluate ePub files (typically from Publishers) for accessibility. Is there a tool that can check ePubs? Can I export to another format like MS Word and test there? I could use Calibre to do that, but I am not sure how accurate ...

RE: Insights into ways to get better support from Respondus Lockdown Browser or alternatives with better support (we use Canvas)?

Posted By Brian Ward 11-02-2023 10:29:43 AM
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Thanks, Peter, for taking the time to respond. Yes, the network, bugabear problems. It doesn't seem to take much of a drop to screw up the exam. I don't know what you mean by "download" problems. Could you explain more, please? As I explained more in my reply to Kristine. I have had lots of version ...

RE: Insights into ways to get better support from Respondus Lockdown Browser or alternatives with better support (we use Canvas)?

Posted By Brian Ward 11-02-2023 10:24:33 AM
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Kristine, Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. Sounds like you have a great team there! Have support tickets with Respondus ever led to Respondus support staff responding by initiating phone calls with you? Or is only limited to trading emails? Yes, the practice quiz can save a lot of stress. ...

Insights into ways to get better support from Respondus Lockdown Browser or alternatives with better support (we use Canvas)?

Posted By Brian Ward 11-01-2023 01:00:00 PM
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Hi all, I am frustrated with the limited ways Respondus provides support for its Lockdown Browser product. They only take support tickets. So when I have a student or instructor show up at my helpdesk and I can't resolve it, I have to send them away and enter a Respondus ticket. When a response comes ...

Informative thread on AI product traffic stats

Posted By Brian Ward 09-15-2023 08:10:36 AM
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Excellent X thread by Oliva Moore on current top AI product web traffic statistics and comparing their web traffic to the normal contenders for top traffic such as Facebook. Brian Brian Ward Instructional Technologist Instructional Design and Technology 208-467-8359 Book a Meeting With Me This ...

RE: AI & Non-English Courses

Posted By Brian Ward 08-23-2023 02:47:50 PM
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Students at Harvard used AI in the creation of a game to learn French. From today's edition of The Rundown: META Meta unveils breakthrough language AI Image source: Meta The Rundown: Meta has open-sourced an AI model called SeamlessM4T, which translates ...

RE: How to evaluate compliance with WCAG color contrast standards

Posted By Brian Ward 08-17-2023 01:21:00 PM
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Jack, This speaks to exactly the issue I am dealing with - buttons with small text, especially light text on dark background. (Image from link to explanation about WCAG 3 and APCA that Jack posted above.) Can't wait till we get to this standard. Does this new standard provide more guidance about ...

RE: How to evaluate compliance with WCAG color contrast standards

Posted By Brian Ward 08-17-2023 11:35:03 AM
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Thank you to all for helping me understanding the specifics of the WCAG standards, particularly the notes. I am disappointed that it doesn't take into account line thickness, anti-aliasing, etc. So while something can technically pass, it can be actually worse than something that doesn't pass. That is ...

How to evaluate compliance with WCAG color contrast standards

Posted By Brian Ward 08-14-2023 10:34:00 AM
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I am in discussions with Canvas LMS accessibility group about color contrast of many of their button/icons. When I check them with Color Contrast tools (via eyedropper) some of them fail contrast standards. When I pointed this out to Canvas, their reply was to show me the coding for the color of the ...

RE: Canvas Studio and PaperCut MF breaking due to incompatibility with NDVA screen reader

Posted By Brian Ward 08-14-2023 10:17:37 AM
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Thank you Lindsay, I was able to get the demo version of JAWS running and have also concluded that it does not create the same or similar .accessibility.procedures file as NVDA. Also JAWS tech support (grudgingly) confirmed that they don't create something like that. Both PaperCut and Canvas continue ...

Canvas Studio and PaperCut MF breaking due to incompatibility with NDVA screen reader

Posted By Brian Ward 08-10-2023 04:17:00 PM
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If your school uses Canvas LMS or PaperCut, please read and make your voice heard... Both PaperCut MF, printer-spooling/billing software, and Canvas Studio, specifically the screenrecording software of Canvas, break on only a few computers on our campus. We traced it to a line of code in a file ...

RE: Chat GPT, privacy policies, and copyrighted information

Posted By Brian Ward 07-12-2023 01:52:58 PM
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Thanks Heather. From Claude 2- Anthropic's Terms of Service The bold highlighting is by me. "6. Prompts, Outputs, and Materials 1. Rights to Materials. Our Services may allow you to submit text, documents, or other materials to the Services for processing ("Prompts"). Our Services may generate responses ...

RE: Chat GPT, privacy policies, and copyrighted information

Posted By Brian Ward 07-12-2023 09:05:09 AM
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From Bing's Terms of Use "8. Ownership of Content. Microsoft does not claim ownership of Captions, Prompts, Creations, or any other content you provide, post, input, or submit to, or receive from, the Online Services (including feedback and suggestions). However, by using the Online Services, posting, ...

RE: Chat GPT, privacy policies, and copyrighted information

Posted By Brian Ward 07-12-2023 08:48:00 AM
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OpenAI has a policy page titled How your data is used to improve model performance. "When you share your data with us, it helps our models become more accurate and better at solving your specific problems and it also helps improve their general capabilities and safety. We don't use data for selling ...

Chat GPT, privacy policies, and copyrighted information

Posted By Brian Ward 07-11-2023 03:09:00 PM
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Looking for help with locating user agreements and privacy policies for ChatGPT and Bing Chat for including in syllabi of classes that use these AI chatbots. Does anyone have links to those? Secondly, if AI chatbot users include copyrighted material as part of their prompts or direct the chatbot to ...

Can Bing send files?

Posted By Brian Ward 06-28-2023 01:22:00 PM
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Yesterday after Bing Chat (in creative mode) and I created a PowerPoint complete with graphics, Bing told me it could email the PowerPoint file to me. After trying a couple different email addresses with no success, Bing suggested that it send the file to my Google Drive but that also was unsuccessful. ...

Best practices for navigating Canvas with screen reader or keyboard navigation

Posted By Brian Ward 06-26-2023 12:38:00 PM
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Hi all, Has anyone developed a tip sheet for their students on best practices for navigating Canvas with a screen reader or keyboard navigation? I think that this is something we should offer. As well as hints for moving around our own campus websites, library sites, etc. I am currently going through ...

MS Narrator bug - won't read PDF's in Acrobat Pro and limited working with Reader

Posted By Brian Ward 06-26-2023 08:32:00 AM
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Confirmed bug with MS Disability Desk that Narrator screen reader built into Windows 10 & 11 won't read PDF files in Adobe Acrobat Pro. Waiting on confirmation about limited working with Acrobat Reader. Was looking for quick easy way for faculty to confirm accessibility of documents so was testing ...