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Higher Logic's new deployment and accessibility/usability - is Educause ACCESS IT part of the HL accessibility shared interest group?

Posted By Sam Evans 04-24-2024 01:12:46 PM
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Hey ya'll! Higher Logic community groups/discussion boards are in use in four different organizations where I work/learn. In one of them, HL rolled out a NEW AND IMPROVED design on 15 April. The organization that rolled it out doesn't know how to do usability testing or accessibility testing, so they ...

RE: AccessText Network Gone?

Posted By Sam Evans 04-01-2024 02:42:09 PM
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The build and structure of ATN happened via what was once AMAC - origins at UGA (now CIDI at Ga Tech). It was a lot of work to design, develop, and maintain the system - along with one dedicated staff person. Not to mention the hundreds of schools that contributed resources and support the sharing that ...

RE: Autocaptioning Using Stream

Posted By Sam Evans 04-01-2024 12:55:01 PM
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That's a great path forward. I saw you post about ATN, that used to be hosted by CIDI at Ga Tech. CIDI does have a really great video and audio description team if you ever have a need for post production. Good luck! ------------------------------ Sam Evans Certification Manager International Association ...

RE: Autocaptioning Using Stream

Posted By Sam Evans 04-01-2024 10:11:44 AM
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The effective communications and standards of quality captioning require some elements that some AI and ASR (automated speech recognition) cannot produce. Accuracy in captions REQUIRES speaker names (many AI ASR tools are already out of the game out of the gate with this), grammar, punctuation, sounds, ...

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

Posted By Sam Evans 09-12-2023 09:45:13 AM
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Second to Doug's warning about any product that tells screen reader users to turn off/not use their assistive technology of choice. That's contrary to the core tenants of accessibility. In addition to putting yet another layer between a person and the technology it forces people that rely on AT ...

RE: Chromebook accessibility?

Posted By Sam Evans 06-02-2023 01:19:11 PM
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Monica, Google partnered with ACVREP to produce a course in Chromebook accessibility. From Perkins: https://www.perkins.org/resource/chromebook-accessibility-training-program-acvrep/ From ACVREP https://www.acvrep.org/newsitem?id=80 ------------------------------ Sam Evans Certification ...

RE: Recommendations for an accessible on-line magazine

Posted By Sam Evans 12-12-2022 09:36:22 AM
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The vendor providers that you've listed will not be accessible by design, and I've not seen any of them make an effort/express an interest in remediating their systems. Your magazine as an accessible PDF presented in read format on your website may be a solution. ------------------------------ Sam ...

RE: new accessibility guide

Posted By Sam Evans 11-10-2022 11:23:49 AM
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Just a heads up, this is not a tagged, accessible, readable PDF. Irony? ------------------------------ Sam Evans Certification Manager International Association of Accessibility Professionals ------------------------------

RE: Laryngectomy and Zoom

Posted By Sam Evans 10-11-2022 07:21:28 AM
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Rob, I agree with Rebecca. You should check with your CART captioning teams to ensure they are familiar with listening to electrolarynx to transcribe. AI and machine created captioning tools are not designed to hear, listen, and understand may forms of AAC (alternative and augmented communications). ...

RE: inexpensive VPAT preparation?

Posted By Sam Evans 09-20-2022 11:47:19 AM
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Looking further down the line for the procurement process... Are those 'less expensive' VPAT production teams going to reflect and support their claims of usability in the Service Level Agreement (SLA) terms for performance and exit when/if they do not deliver on their in-house VPAT? ------------ ...

RE: SensusAccess

Posted By Sam Evans 09-02-2022 09:31:31 AM
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It is a plugin but not an overlay in terms of the ones that offer profiles. I'd be wary of anything AI driven that claims to make files automatically accessible. AI just isn't there for images, context, and tables. ------------------------------ Sam Evans Certification Manager International Association ...

RE: Zoom versus WebEx conference experiences or opinions

Posted By Sam Evans 08-26-2022 04:01:06 PM
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Lori, Cisco owns the WebEx brand. The head of tech at Zoom used to be the head of tech CX at WebEx Meetings. Left supposedly due to not being able to roll out the CX changes requested. Just a heads up on WebEx Events (previously Socio), it is not accessible or usable for many, cannot support sign ...

RE: Doodle accessibility conformance or accessible alternative?

Posted By Sam Evans 04-06-2022 06:42:26 PM
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I've used some beta functionality successfully: poll a group to choose a date and time for a meeting. US and International groups that included colleagues who are Blind, Deafblind, and Voice input users. Along with others that use alternate inputs. I'm using it now to allow people to schedule times ...

RE: Doodle accessibility conformance or accessible alternative?

Posted By Sam Evans 04-06-2022 05:31:45 PM
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We're finding better success with Calendly (surprising) and have heard good things about Microsoft Bookings. ------------------------------ Sam Evans Certification Manager International Association of Accessibility Professionals ------------------------------

RE: Assistive technologies and training

Posted By Sam Evans 02-18-2022 03:19:24 PM
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I like Otter.ai for notetaking and using the review to correct it's AI shortcomings as a way to review notes. I also use it to create caption files from Zoom and PPTX presentations that will become video. New today is a hardware find, a usb-based small microphone for voice recognition. https://a ...

RE: Assistive technologies and training

Posted By Sam Evans 02-18-2022 10:18:19 AM
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Joshua, There's a thread on twitter that is asking for this very information. Would it be okay for me to share this detail to her? She is Senior Instructional Technologist Coppin State University.

RE: Accessibility Cert targeting Cognitive Disabilities

Posted By Sam Evans 02-01-2022 12:47:12 PM
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We don't have anything that specialized at IAAP. I'll see if I can find anything in our colleagues' work.

RE: Standards to meet for live captioning events

Posted By Sam Evans 12-13-2021 08:14:00 AM
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You can refer to the DCMP Captioning Key, URL follows: Captioning Key Notes from NAD, URL follows: https://www.nad.org/resources/technology/captioning-for-access/ Here's the high level overview we use: Captions should: Display with no more than two lines of text at a time Have no more than 30 or ...

RE: Quick follow-up to today's ITACCESS meeting

Posted By Sam Evans 10-06-2021 05:58:52 PM
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This is really interesting. We have not had any success in commitment from them even with signed SLA. Maybe EDUCAUSE will be the momentum needed! Sam Evans Sent from my iPhone