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Microscope access for students in Wheelchairs

Posted By Laura Hopkins 03-25-2024 07:38:00 PM
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Would you please share if you've found a good way for those in wheelchairs to be able to achieve the height to comfortably look into a standard classroom microscope? LAURA HOPKINS (she/her/hers) MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility Coordinator OIT ...

Adobe PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API

Posted By Laura Hopkins 03-01-2024 07:47:42 AM
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Does anyone have any recent experience with Adobe PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag API? Did you find it helpful? LAURA HOPKINS (she/her/hers) MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM Electronic and Information Resources Accessibility Coordinator OIT Performance & Risk Management Laura.Hopkins@uta.edu Office: ...

Adobe Signature is not Accessible - Would you please vote at Adobe to escalate the matter?

Posted By Laura Hopkins 02-13-2024 06:40:00 AM
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The Adobe Signature function in Adobe Acrobat is not accessible because it requires the signer to be able to use a mouse. [Unlike AdobeSign, which is accessible.] However, due to form workflow, we need the Adobe Signature function to be accessible to those that can't use a mouse. Would you please ...

Accessible PDF org chart

Posted By Laura Hopkins 01-12-2024 12:02:00 PM
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Does anyone have an accessible PDF org chart they could share? (and please advise if the source document is InDesign, Word, etc...) LAURA HOPKINS MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM EIR Accessibility Coordinator (EIRAC) Office of Information Technology The University of Texas at Arlington laura.hopkins@uta.edu ...

RE: Vendor using Site Improve to monitor their Software, but will not supply ACR only Site Improve Reports

Posted By Laura Hopkins 01-12-2024 07:02:40 AM
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In Siteimprove, the customer can select which WCAG version they want to beset as their target. This only impacts the "Points to Reach Target" metric. Additionally, Siteimprove (under Accessibility, Guidelines), indicates which WCAG criteria it reports on and which it does not: The vendor you are ...

RE: Vendor using Site Improve to monitor their Software, but will not supply ACR only Site Improve Reports

Posted By Laura Hopkins 01-12-2024 06:52:30 AM
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In Siteimprove, the customer can select which WCAG version they want to beset as their target. This only impacts the "Points to Reach Target" metric. Additionally, Siteimprove (under Accessibility, Guidelines), indicates which WCAG criteria it reports on and which it does not: The vendor you are ...

GoSignMeUp

Posted By Laura Hopkins 12-13-2023 12:03:56 PM
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Hi! If any of you have assessed GoSignMeUp.Com, would you please share what you've learned? LAURA HOPKINS MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM EIR Accessibility Coordinator (EIRAC) Office of Information Technology The University of Texas at Arlington laura.hopkins@uta.edu Office: 817-272-5961 ...

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities

Posted By Laura Hopkins 12-12-2023 07:59:00 AM
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Any idea when/if this rule will be finalized? https://www.ada.gov/resources/2023-07-20-web-nprm/#:~:text=This%20NPRM%20proposes%20a%20specific,for%20comments%20about%20this%20proposal. LAURA HOPKINS MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM EIR Accessibility Coordinator (EIRAC) Office of Information Technology ...

RE: Question regarding creating accessible PowerPoint files (and ensure that they convert correctly to PDF).

Posted By Laura Hopkins 11-08-2023 12:58:44 PM
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Elizabeth - In regard to your comment about tagging being hit or miss.....Yes! Although, we have figured out the following: WINDOWS - when you "save as PDF", the PDF file will only have H1 tags if a title placeholder from a master is used. Even if you change the font to the calibri - Headings option, ...

Question regarding creating accessible PowerPoint files (and ensure that they convert correctly to PDF).

Posted By Laura Hopkins 11-08-2023 11:02:00 AM
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For years, we have known that text boxes drawn on a PowerPoint slide would be text that does not appear in the Outline View and were not accessible to assistive technology. All text boxes were required to come from a Slide Master - text in those boxes appears in the outline view and is accessible to ...

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

Posted By Laura Hopkins 08-28-2023 03:08:35 PM
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Even in cases where there is no alternative, we require the EEAAP. It is important for our using departments to document how they are going to communicate to the users that the resource is not accessible and how they should reach out for assistance. Also, it is important for the using department ...

What will WCAG 3.0 do with color contrast?

Posted By Laura Hopkins 08-23-2023 06:54:14 AM
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Good morning, everyone! I came across this article yesterday and thought some of you might be interested. It is an entirely new vocabulary for me - APCA, readability contrast, lightness contrast Here's the first paragraph (so you can decide if you are interested): Visual readability is a critically ...

RE: How to evaluate compliance with WCAG color contrast standards

Posted By Laura Hopkins 08-14-2023 10:47:04 AM
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Because neither the institution nor the vendor can control every end-users's display, I believe the standard must be based on the code. From a browser, if you right-click on the webpage and select 'inspect', then click on the first button in the upper menu and hover over the page element, it will show ...

Please "vote" for this issue to be addressed by InDesign

Posted By Laura Hopkins 08-11-2023 02:59:00 PM
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InDesign Cannot Set Actual Text (Accessibility) InDesign Cannot Set Actual Text InDesign has no way of setting actual text. This can only be done in PDF. Actual text is set when acronyms are used. Access technologies such as screen readers cannot properly read acronyms such as USA. They voice them ...

Need help with PDF - inherit zoom

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-31-2023 07:29:44 AM
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Happy Monday, everyone! We have a PDF. When the view is set for a small monitor, it only views part of the page at a time - which is fine. But if you click on a hyperlinked item, when it takes you to the landing page, you are zoomed into whatever portion of the page you started out on. So, if I'm ...

RE: Accessibility of ThankView by Evertrue

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-28-2023 01:41:56 PM
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Valerie - Send ThankView an email and ask them for an updated VPAT. The last one I reviewed was in 2019: LAURA HOPKINS (she/her/hers) MS ITM, CPACC, CAPM, CTCD/CTCM EIR Accessibility Coordinator The University of Texas at Arlington laura.hopkins@uta.edu Office: 817-272-5961 www.uta.e ...

RE: PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-20-2023 08:44:25 AM
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Cliff, That response from Microsoft doesn't make any sense to me because it was reporting properly last week. They made a change and it broke. In fact, if I open a file from last week with insufficient color contrast issues - those old issues are still reported. It is only new instances that fail ...

RE: PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-20-2023 08:23:45 AM
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I apologize - the previous message was incomplete. Here is the Microsoft ticket: Hi @EIR Accessibility Coordinator, Thank you for contacting the Microsoft enterprise Disability Answer Desk. We have already filed a feature request with the PowerPoint team for the accessibility checker in PowerPoint ...

RE: PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-20-2023 08:20:16 AM
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Here is the Microsoft ticket number, in case your IT staff can add to the request: =====

PowerPoint Accessibility Checker has stopped reporting hard-to-read contrast

Posted By Laura Hopkins 07-19-2023 02:51:00 PM
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I'm using a MacBook Pro with Ventura OS and PPT stopped reporting insufficient color contrast this week. Is anyone else seeing this issue? LAURA HOPKINS MS ITM, CAPM, CPACC, CTCD/CTCM EIR Accessibility Coordinator (EIRAC) Office of Information Technology The University of Texas at Arlington ...