aaup 2016: accessibility presentation (j. axelrod)

AAUP 2016Jamie Axelrod

Director Disability ResourcesADA Coordinator/504 Compliance Officer

Northern Arizona UniversityPresident-Elect, Association on Higher Education and Disability

When we get a request• Check the ISBN to make sure it is the correct edition being requested.• See if the title is available for request from Access Text…if not, then• Contact Publisher Directly to see if they can supply a digital file…if

not, then• Purchase at the Bookstore…if not, then• Purchase through Amazon or other online retailer

Access Text Network• Over 94,000 requests from the 1600 member institutions in 2015• 30,000 unique titles• 50% of the titles had multiple requests• Sharing of remediated files is not permitted• If you need the same book again for another student you must make

a new request and agree not to use the previously provided file.

When we need to purchase a physical copy

Making files usable•82% of the files we received from Access Text and

publishers in 2015-2016 needed further remediation to make them accessible for the end user we were providing them to.

Typical issues for remediation• File is one large PDF which needs to be broken up into chapters• PDF is not appropriately structured or tagged• Pagination- page numbers are missing or are different for the file as

compared to the text• Footnotes, sidenotes are missing• Formatting- text wrapping or reading order• Visual elements-pictures, tables, graphs, charts• Symbols- Greek symbols, mathematical symbols• File is a jpeg and has no text based content

Item As seen within the text Corrected format

Bullet Points [bullet]

Minus Signs -

[minus]

Negative Signs - [negative]

Greater Than Symbol > [greater than]

Greater Than or Equal To Symbol ≥ [greater than or equal to]

Less Than Symbol < [less than]

Less Than or Equal To Symbol ≤ [less than or equal to]

Not Equal To Symbol ≠ [not equal to]

Asterisk Symbol * [asterisk]

Multiplication Symbol x or * [times]

Copyright Symbol © [copyright]

Dashes ‒ or — (these are medium or long dashes)

-(replace them with the short dash)