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If you plan to attend the Web Liaison meeting on November 28, 2017. Please fill out the form below.
The Zoom meeting information is given in the Web Liaisons Yammer Group.
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This registration form will be used to add people to the list of individuals allowed to access recordings as well as track general attendance of the session.
Note: If you are unable to attend the session, but wish to view recordings, you should still complete the form.
Details on session schedule is available at the Virtual Conference page.
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This year Penn State is sponsoring streamed sessions from the Accessing Higher Ground accessibility conference in November. For those at the University Park campus, the following sessions will be hosted at Innovation Park from November 15, 16, & 17.
This year’s conference will offer a wide variety of sessions covering topics like audio description, accessibility in higher ed, web testing and evaluations, and accessible formats for instructional materials. All faculty and staff are welcome to attend any sessions, and recordings will be made available at a later date.
Please complete the registration form whether you plan to attend in person or view recordings.
There will be two tracks of the conference running simultaneously at the following locations:
For the specific schedule of tracks and sessions shows with local times, see the AHG Penn State Schedule on Google Docs.
It is possible to bring food and drinks into the scheduled rooms.
Both buildings include “snack shops” where you can purchase soda, water, and various snack foods for cash. You can also bring food and beverages into the rooms. The Penn Stater offers two options for lunch: Legends and the Gardens.
Both the 329 Building and the Outreach Buildings are Orange lots with free parking at the Penn Stater. The 329 Building also has free visitor parking next to the building and the Outreach Building has metered spaces next to it.
Note: Both buildings are also available on the Red Link bus line.
Note: The Zoom link to the webinar will be displayed in a confirmation message.
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Anyone using an iPhone or Droid also has access to a screen reader which can be used to test website accessibility. A team of experienced screen reader users and testers will demonstrate how they use their mobile device screen readers to interact with different sites and how navigation differs from the default options most sighted people use. The session will also show how anyone can toggle a screen reader on and off and use it to interact with online content.
Prerequisite(s): None
Please register here:
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This year Penn State is sponsoring streamed sessions from the Accessing Higher Ground accessibility conference in November. If you are at the University Park campus, the following sessions will be hosted at University Libraries from November 16-18.
The cost for this event is free ($0) for anyone at Penn State.
It is possible to bring food and drinks into the scheduled rooms. Depending on your schedule, you can purchase food and drinks from Mackinnon’s Café (West Patee Basement), Au Bon Pain (Kern Building) or other nearby locations.
The NLI deck will not be available Wed. or Thurs. until 4:00 PM. However, you may be able to park at the East Halls Deck and the Hub Deck unless your parking pass provides you additional options. The Link/Loop services will also be available.
Note: Sessions, locations and times may be subject to change.
Time | Pattee W315 | Mann Assembly Room |
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10 to 11 am | Effectively Accommodating Low Vision Students | Automated Testing Tools Crash Course (double session) |
11:15 am to 12:15 pm | Promoting the Universal Design Paradigm on Campus – Everywhere | Automated Testing Tools Crash Course (continued) |
1:15 to 2:15 pm | GrackleDocs: Google Docs Acccessibility Checker and PDF/UA | An Introduction to Accessibility Testing for Mobile apps |
2:50 to 4 pm | No Session | Keynote Talk: Tommy Edison, the Blind Film Critic |
4:15 to 5:15 pm | DIY Captioning – Using Camptasia & YouTube to create caption files | Generating and Using Accessible Math on the Web (goes to 5:30) |
5:30 to 6:30 pm | Talking to Faculty about Accessibility | No Session |
Note: Sessions, locations and times may be subject to change.
Time | Pattee W315 | Paterno E403 |
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10 to 11 am | A Review of Apps & Strategies for Converting and Accessing Print and Digitall Material | Open Source Tools for Evaluating and Inspecting Web Accessibility |
11:15 am to 12:15 pm | No session | PDFs and Professors: What is Reasonable to Ask of Instructors |
1:15 to 2:15 pm | Translating Visual Information into Tactile Information | No session |
2:50 to 4 pm | Plenary Panel: Sorting out certifications for Accessibility Professionals, Application Designers & Developers, Hadi Rangin, University of Washington, moderator | Plenary Panel (Same as Patee W315): Sorting out certifications for Accessibility Professionals, Application Designers & Developers, Hadi Rangin, University of Washington, moderator |
4:15 to 5:15 pm | LaTeX and MathML – What Content Creators Need to Know | When to test or trust vendor accessibility evaluations |
5:15 to 6 | Break – No Session | Break – No Session |
6 to 7 pm | Interactive maps: how do you make them accessible? | Building an Accessibility Procurement Process in Higher Education |
Note: Sessions, locations and times may be subject to change.
Time | Pattee W315 | Paterno E403 |
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11:15 am to 12:15 pm | Accessibility and the California Community Colleges Online Education Initiative – Lessons Learned | Advanced Techniques for PDF Accessibility (double session) |
12:30 to 1:30 pm | A Little Means a Lot: Simple Ways to Improve Online Course Accessibility | Advanced Techniques for PDF Accessibility (continued) |
1:45 to 2:45 | WordPress & ATAG Compliance | The Universal College Campus – Accessible Technology for All |
Faculty Development has added a blog for faculty to their informative site. Read Paula’s recent post
7 Tips and 7 Principles for Accessibility and Universal Design.
Information about making Qualtrics forms more accessibility is available at http://accessibility.psu.edu/qualtrics
Corner of College & Allen blog post
My name is Sonya Woods and I am an accessibility consultant with World Campus Learning Design and I met JooYoung when I took a Learning Design and Technology course this semester. He has a great story, so I decided to interview him for the Corner of College & Allen blog so that people can benefit from his experience and perspective as a student who is blind.
Sent in by Christian Johansen
Under a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday, edX, the nonprofit MOOC provider created by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has agreed to make its offerings more accessible to people with disabilities.
The settlement agreement, which marks the department’s first effort to challenge the accessibility of massive open online courses, affects the colleges that are members of edX as well as the nonprofit consortium itself.
Sent in by Elizabeth J. Pyatt
3PlayMedia is offering some timely free webinars on captioning including Copyright and Captioning (April 2, 2-2:45 PM) and Captioning Quickstart (May 7, 2-2:45). They also have some nice (captioned) recorded webinars focusing on workflow issues in particular. Web accessibility is a hot topic right now, with lawsuits, a Section 508 refresh, and the impending requirements of WCAG 2.0 fresh on people’s minds. There are also some recorded webinars to check out.
Sent in by Alexa Schriempf
A small, highly unusual exhibition, “Touching the Prado,” designed to give the blind or those with limited sight an
opportunity to create a mental image of a painting by feeling it. The show, which runs through June 28, occupies a side passage of the museum, near a room that contains an original of another work copied for the blind: a version
of the Mona Lisa by a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci. Altogether, six 3D copies are on display, all of them rendering famous works in the Prado. They include Goya’s “The Parasol”; a still life by van der Hamen; “Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan” by Velázquez; and “Noli Me Tangere,” Correggio’s painting of Christ meeting Mary Magdalene.
The exhibition is one of the most sophisticated yet in efforts to unlock the beauty of the visual arts for those unable to see them. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London are among several museums that organize activities for blind visitors, including special guided tours, drawing classes, and “touch” workshops, in which blind people can feel sculptures. The Louvre in Paris also has a Tactile Gallery that contains
copies of some of its sculptures.