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SFC Infact Database - www.sfc.ac.uk/infact

JISC Advisory Services

Advice on all aspects of plagiarism prevention

& detection

Advice with still images, moving images and sound

advice

Advice on all aspects of technology& inclusion

Internet training workshops, online self- paced tutorials

Effectivestrategic planning, implementation

& management of ICT

Strategic guidance& advice

re legal issues in ICT

JISC TechDis has been working with library groups for several years. Libraries have a critical role in accessibility because they are a key support for independent learning.

They play a significant role in signposting different types of resource to fellow staff and learners/customers.

They are instrumental in obtaining text books in alternative formats.

Better use of existing resources: Better use of existing resources: going beyond handoutsgoing beyond handouts

Accessibility Essentials Series

Making your computer more accessible for you.

Producing MS Word documents that are more inclusive.

Producing inclusive MS PowerPoint.

Making PDFs as accessible as possible.

‘I cant read the information on the screen.’ ‘The information on the screen is too small to see.’ ‘I can’t adjust the font and colour backgrounds to suit my personal preferences.’ ‘The words keep jumping around the screen.’ ‘I find it difficult to navigate.’ ‘I can’t click the mouse buttons.’ ‘I can’t see the keys on the keyboard.’ ‘I keep miss-hitting the keyboard keys.’

Issues for students accessing learning resources

JISC TechDis Talked to Academic Librarians

How do you support learners?

• TextHelp Read and Write gold• Inspiration• Kurzweil• JAWS for Windows• Claro Read

Where?

How often?

How many effective users?

How many supported per £?

What are they not trying?

Senior Management Briefing Series.

http://www.techdis.ac.uk/getfreesoftware

Saving £s and improving independence.

JISC TechDis have created a resource giving tutorials in how to use

free and open source technologies which highlights the benefits that

free software brings in terms of supporting everyone, not just

customers with identified needs.

How They Learn

Reflect on knowledge or skill

Write responses

Interact withresources

Record information

Plan responses

Reading Tools

Alternative Interfaces

Recording Tools

Planning Tools

Communication Tools

What They Do How To Help

Visualisation Tools

Writing Tools

Introduce new knowledge or skill

Exemplify new knowledge or skill

Test understanding of new knowledge or skill by completing specific assignments

Reflect on knowledge or skill

Enabling technologies supporting all learners

Process, tasks and tools

What is AccessApps?What is AccessApps?

Inclusion/Empowerment by All....Not just Supported Learning staff

............For AllFor All

ProvidingProvidingenabling technology enabling technology

solutions should not belong solely solutions should not belong solely to support specialists any to support specialists any more than accessibility ormore than accessibility orinclusion should belonginclusion should belong

exclusivelyexclusivelyto disabled peopleto disabled people

What’s on the USB AccessApps?

Open Office

Planning and Organising Tools

Reading and Writing Support

Visual Support

Accessible Browsers

Keyboard and Mouse Alternatives

Multimedia Resources

Presentation Tools

Learning Games

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AccessApps storage facility. Use these folders to store the work you produce with AccessApps.

AccessApps applications.whenever you click on a folder item or a menu item, the AccessApps start menu will move to the background.

Open Office

Back

You can save your OpenOffice Writer files as Word-compatible documents.

OpenOffice Impress is the equivalent of PowerPoint

Open Office:What do students think?

 “With my budget and my computer, I found it difficult to do college work because I did not have MS Word at home so I had to use wordpad which I didn't like to use because it did not offer me the right tools to complete my work”

Student at Coatbridge College

Planning & Organisational Tools

XmindMozilla Sunbird - Calendar Hott Notes 4 – Sticky Notes

Back

DyslexiaScotopic Sensitivity and visual difficulties experienced

by many learners with dyslexia

What is it like to have dyslexia?

Reading & Writing SupportRapid Set – Change Font/Colour Background

Vu Bar – Read Text one line at a time

Rapid Set helping a member of staff in the workplace

PowerTalk automatically speaks the text in presentations while you operate PowerPoint as usual. Helps presenters who have difficulty speaking, or audiences with visual impairments.

Adds instant narration to presentations without the need to record speech.

Provides fun activities such as talking stories.

Is a useful tool for testing presentation accessibility using a traditional screen reader.

DSpeech

Dspeech will hook Dspeech will hook into the speech into the speech engine on any engine on any

windows PC you windows PC you use use and will will

either read out either read out text or convert to text or convert to

MP3MP3

Visual Support

• Virtual Magnifying Glass

• Sonar – Cursor Ring

Accessible Browsers• WebbIE – Text Based Browser

Use in collaboration with Thunder Screen Reader*

Typical Web PageSame Web Page using WebbIE

Click N Type and Mouse Tools may assist for users with mobility issues or RSI

problems

Multimedia and Presentation ToolsAudacity records and editing audioWhat do people think of this:

Use this all the time for audio, no other tool is as goodA great free (open source) tool for creating and editing audio filesA well focused tool that academics and student can pick up easily. It's very portable

Multimedia and Presentation Tools

• Cam Studio – record all screen and audio activity to create avi/flash multimedia learning resources

• VLC Media Player – cross platform media player• AudioBook Cutter – splits mp3 sound files to

make them easier to listen to in smaller chunks

Unfreez to create animations

Work on most mobile devicesNo stigma attached to mobile learning

most people have a mobile device discreetcurrentportable

Two pieces of software needed– Microsoft PowerPoint– unFREEz (freeware)

By Matt Harrison of Portland College and

Alistair McNaught of TechDis

Applications

• Timetables• Travel training

– Landmarks along the way• Health and Safety

– Manual handling sequences, COSHH etc.• Sequences

– Daily routines, specific tasksAnd, don’t forget….

• Fun!

Where can I download AccessApps?

http://www.eduapps.org/

Not on AccessApps

T-Barwww.fxc.btinternet.co.uk/tbar.htm

•T-Bar is a coloured bar which you can either drag around the screen or lock to your mouse. It can have ruled lines or not, depending on your preference.

•The colour can be chosen from pre-defined options.

•All the settings are saved between sessions, so there is no need to readjust the next time you use it.

WordTalk

www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/

  

WordTalk is a free plug-in developed for use with all versions of Microsoft Word (from Word 97 upwards), which can help people with reading difficulties use Microsoft Word more effectively. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes.

Sits neatly in toolbar, highly configurable, adjust the highlight colours, the voice and the speed of the speech.

    

Other web based text to speech converters

Zamzar – www.zamzar.comRead the Words - www.readthewords.com/Spoken Text - http://www.spokentext.net/RoboBraille - www.robobraille.org/frontpage

Other resources from JISC to help you create inclusive

environments

Promoting your services effectively.Communicating with users through appropriate media.Ensuring users can access space and information.Helping users access study tools.Providing alternative interfaces where required.Providing books in alternative formats.Creating coherent policies.Guidance on providing support in each of these areas is available at

www.techdis.ac.uk/getlibraryguides

e-Books = books with wings

E-Books for FE JISC funded (JISC Collections). Access to e-books selected by the FE community in the UK. Free of charge to all FE colleges in the UK with

accessto a core collection of e-books. http://fe.jiscebooksproject.org

Where can we find out more about e-books? See www.techdis.ac.uk/getebooks.

www.publisherlookup.org.uk/

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are needed to see this picture.

TechDis are at an early stage of planning an extension of PublisherLookup as well as starting a new bit of work with librarians to explore accessibility of online library catalogues and working with ProcureWeb to raise the bar on best practice

Web2AccessWeb2Access is a JISC-funded project which allows developers and users to see at a glance the usability and accessibility of interactive and collaborative e-learning tools.Web2Access is based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) and explores a range of popular tools such as You Tube or Twitter and more. Each tool is given an average score based on issues such as image attributes, text editors, multimedia and appropriate use of tables and frames.http://www.web2access.org.uk/

http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/

Keyboard and Mouse AlternativesDasher (Case Study)

Dasher is a information-efficient communication system driven by continuous pointing gestures.

Instead of using a keyboard, the user writes by continuous steering, zooming into a landscape painted with letters.

Dasher can be driven by a regular mouse, by touch-screen, or by gaze-direction.