Disability Inclusion: Campus Wide Assistive Technologies and Authoring Resources

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Participants will learn about campus wide assistive technologies used by students with disabilities to access documents and online resources, and the tools available to authors to help them make more accessible documents. The assistive technologies include the JAWS Screen Reader, Voice Over Screen Reader, ZoomText magnifier and Kurzweil 3000. The session will demonstrate the basic features of these assistive technologies and provide information on how to make them available in campus computer labs. The campus recently purchased a license to EquatIO to help faculty and staff make mathematical equations more accessible in web pages and documents, including Word and PDF. SensusAccess is a online resource to convert files, URLs, images of text or plain text into a range of alternate media including audio books (MP3 and DAISY), e-books (EPUB, EPUB3 and Mobi) and digital Braille. EquatIO and SensuAccess will be demonstrated and information provided on how to access these resources.