Accessibility

Internal Links

• Information for Registered Students
  • Alternate format Request form
• CUA Disability Support Services
• CUA Phone directory
• CUA Technology Services log-in
• Topaz CUA Web Content Management tool
• Cardinal Station
• CUA Travel Policy

eText

Sources

• AccessText
  • Pearson Education
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Macmillan Higher Education
  • Cengage Learning
  • SAGE Publications, Inc.
  • McGraw-Hill Education
  • Elsevier
  • W.W. Norton
  • F.A. Davis Company
  • Lynne Rienner Publishers
  • Jones & Bartlett Learning
  • Springer Publishing
  • Sinauer Associates
  • Kogan Page
  • Dunedin Academic Press
  • Ramsey Education Solutions, The Lampo Group, Inc.
• Bookshare
• Library of Congress Catalog
• Textbooks.com
• Chegg

Publishers

• McGraw Hill Education
• Prentice Hall, Pearson
• For Harvard Business Publications contact permissions@harvardbusiness.org
• Princeton University PressBecause Bookshare® offers this service, Princeton University Press does not provide electronic files for print-disabled students. For general queries only, e-mail: permissions@press.princeton.edu

Software

• Abbyy FineReader
• Kurzweil 3000
• Easy Publisher
• Adobe Acrobat
• Easy Converter
• Paginator
• Open Office
• Microsoft Word

Assistive Technology

• LiveScribe Smartpens
  • VideosLivescribe echo smartpen
  • Livescribe Store for supplies. Notebooks are available from Staples.
• Read&Write Gold
  • youTube video
  • Tutorial at youTube
  • Download from CUA Tech support
  • Texthelp Site License page
  • Read-Write Gold version 11 for Windows Serial Number: 374284-9328-7254-7755
• Kurzweil 3000
• Dolphin Easy Reader Daisy book reader - Windows only
• RevoLabs xTag Wireless Microphone

Organizations

• AHEAD Association on Higher Education and Disability
  • E-text Instructional Materials Accessibility Group (IMAG):
• AltFormat Solutions Ron Stewart ron@altformatsolutions.com He has been one of the people who has started this e-text editing movement in higher education.
• Bookshare An Accessible Online Library
• AccessText Network Source for Books in electronic format

Services

Alternative Communications Services

Technologies

Daisy

• Daisy home
• DaisyPedia

Tasks

• Prep for Smart Start
• Meet with all eText workers
• eText worker training
• familiarity with Smartpen
• Familiarity with eText processes
• Inventory of AT hardware and software
• Evaluate, test, select and implement management software
• Check out AT around Campus
• Process engineering for eText and AT
• Update eText Guidebook
• Update web site - Topaz
• Develop Self-Service guidance
• Convert DSS forms to accessible PDF and post on Web
• Accounts on Blackberry, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.
• Work with publishers to make source documents more accessible.
• Inventory and update software on all workstations

External Resources

• Guidelines for Accessing Alternative Format Educational Materials - LOC
• Adobe® Acrobat® accessibility training resources
• CUA acquires most of it's AT from Envision Technology. Emily said to contact Moira Williams moira@envisiontechnology.org Telephone 301.654.3568 or 800.582.5051