Setting up Big Blue Button

For those using canvas, you will need to use the Conferences tool:

1. Go to your course in canvas, and click on the conferences tool
2. Click the blue + Conference Button
3. Enter in the details of your session and click update

For professors looking to teach synchronous online classes, our office recommends using WebEx. If you require live captioning, below are the steps to enable them:

Enabling WebEx- First Time Users

First-time users will need to activate your WebEx service. Please follow the steps below:

What is Assistive Technology (AT)?

Assistive Technology (AT) are solutions that help people perform tasks despite an accessibility barrier they face.  This could range from a software that reads your books out loud to you; to a setting your computer that makes text more visible. Some of these solutions take the form of software, other times it is hardware. Any AT we provide to a student must be approved as part of a student’s accommodations by their coordinator. 

Desmos

One of the tools available to students, is a free online program called Desmos (Links to an external site.). It allows the user to create graphs, and then listen to them by either reading out the plots or interpreting changes in tone and pitch.

SensusAccess (Links to an external site.) is a free online software that allows you to convert files into a PDF format. Users upload files to the system and it is then converted by the software and emailed back to the user. 

SensusAccess works best to create accessible PDFs when:

Preparing to teach a course is a lot of work, and sometimes you might have a book or article in your files that were scanned and saved as PDF's. Unfortunately, if not scanned properly, PDF's are very inaccessible, and create lots of challenges for all students to read and study effectively.

When you come across a scanned PDF, do your best to replace it with a proper accessible digital text document as described below. Scanned PDFs get a low accessibility score indicator in Canvas Ally.

Now that we've created a structure to our document, the next step is to make sure that students can access the content with in that structure.

Resources

Image Description Guidelines (Links to an external site.)

In our introduction to screen readers part 1, we looked at how  a student would navigate your course content. Below is a tutorial on how to set up structure with in your documents to allow a student to easily navigate through them.

To add a heading style

1. Select a text that you want to add a header to.

There are various forms of tactile graphics that our office has produced for students. Below are just a few examples:

Students with Low Vision may also utilize a CCTV, which is a camera mounted device that enlarges a book or other item under the camera onto a screen. This device can then adjust the zoom, color contrast, and colors of the page for the student. There are portable options, which uses a video camera embedded in the device to enlarge the items.