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Textbook Repository, EMMA, open sign ups

Posted By Bill Burgess 04-18-2024 07:34:00 AM
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Announcement from UVA's John Unsworth below: Hi folks, Two weeks ago, shortly after Access Text Network disappeared, I wrote to those on this list to say that we were accelerating the opening of EMMA to members from July to today, April 17th. Since then, we've been furiously working on some critical ...

Recognizing speech sounds with cochlear implants

Posted By Bill Burgess 09-29-2023 01:25:00 PM
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Hello all, This question may be better directed toward an audiologist's office, but I'm interested to hear your thoughts. I have a student in audiology class those who needs to recognize and differentiate between spoken sounds. The student I'm helping uses cochlear implants and has a newer Marvel ...

RE: Auto generated captions from video portal

Posted By Bill Burgess 09-15-2023 03:01:01 PM
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Heidi, I was pretty sure that our D2L Brightspace administrator turned on auto-captioning last year, so I confirmed that today by uploading a short video. It did automatically create machine-generated captioning. In my opinion, this is a better universal access approach than not having it enabled. ...

RE: MathType Alternative?

Posted By Bill Burgess 09-07-2023 08:28:09 AM
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Heather, my experience with EquatIO at the higher ed level is that it's fairly limited in regard to advanced maths. I met with a student that wanted to use the speech recognition function of EquatIO to quickly work through calculus problems, but it couldn't produce the equations he was speaking. It might ...

RE: Accessibility technology for hard of hearing folks

Posted By Bill Burgess 02-14-2023 07:36:00 AM
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Joe, D Krahmer's suggestion of using Zoom is probably the most elegant solution for piping audio directly to one or a few audience members. I'd also encourage you to check out Ava.me for their ability to provide auto captions (along with professional captioning when needed) to one or a few people directly ...

RE: Co-chair transition for IT Accessibility CG

Posted By Bill Burgess 04-11-2022 07:22:20 AM
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Hear, hear! Thank you Michael & Eudora. 😁 ------------------------------ Bill Burgess Assistive Technology Specialist, Student Access Division of Administration | Vanderbilt University 615-343-1571 | bill.burgess@Vanderbilt.Edu | https://www.vanderbilt.edu/student-access/ ...

RE: Vendor for Accessible Furniture?

Posted By Bill Burgess 01-21-2022 10:01:28 AM
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Either way on the links, thanks so much, Monica, for the help! FYI, I'm logged into the Educause Connect website to post this reply. It seems descriptive links work from in here, but maybe they don't get passed on correctly when replying to threads from email clients? ------------------------------ ...

RE: Vendor for Accessible Furniture?

Posted By Bill Burgess 01-21-2022 09:59:20 AM
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Monica, I agree that descriptive links don't seem to be working. Here's another one, just to test further: Vanderbilt University ------------------------------ Bill Burgess Assistive Technology Specialist, Student Access Division of Administration | Vanderbilt University 615-343-1571 | bill.burgess@Vanderbilt.Edu ...

Vendor for Accessible Furniture?

Posted By Bill Burgess 01-19-2022 11:25:29 AM
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Hi all, I was asked the following, "Can you direct me to a supplier of furniture – laboratory furniture in particular – that is adaptive? I am in particular interested in an adjustable height lab bench for persons with different seating and stature. It needs to have drawers that are really easy to open ...

RE: Library Database Accessibility List

Posted By Bill Burgess 12-08-2021 11:49:20 AM
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All, Thanks so much for the quick responses! I truly appreciate it. Bill B. ------------------------------ Bill Burgess Assistive Technology Specialist, Student Access Division of Administration | Vanderbilt University 615-343-1571 | bill.burgess@Vanderbilt.Edu | https://www.vanderbilt.edu/student-access/ ...

Library Database Accessibility List

Posted By Bill Burgess 12-07-2021 09:51:45 AM
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Happy Tuesday (or whatever day you happen to read this :) Our libraries have asked me to put together a short list of possible accessibility features for their databases so that they can see if each database contains those accessibility offerings. I've noticed that many databases are beginning to offer ...