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Enhancing Digital Accessibility for JAWS and ZoomText Users

Gain insights into the challenges faced by visually impaired users and discover valuable strategies to improve accessibility. Learn from experts about assistive technologies such as JAWS and ZoomText, and explore the importance of inclusive design practices. Uncover practical tips for navigating websites and creating a more inclusive digital environment.

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Enhancing Digital Accessibility for JAWS and ZoomText Users

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  1. Understanding Accessibility:JAWS and ZoomText Users Speak and Explain Mike Elledge Sakai Accessibility Team Lead Assistant Director, Usability & Accessibility Center, Michigan State University

  2. Acknowledgements • Anil Lewis, President, National Federation of the Blind of Georgia (NFBA) • Robert Todd, Director, Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) • Margaret Londergan, Director, Adaptive Technology Center, Indiana University

  3. Panelists • Anil Lewis, NFBGA

  4. Challenges • Awareness • Knowledge • Understanding

  5. Understanding • Text-book versus experience • Sighted designers versus blind or low-vision users • Hearing designers versus deaf users • Mobile designers versus impaired users • Temporary versus permanent cognitive impairment

  6. Persons Using Adaptive Technology • Video Clip #1 • Video Clip #2 • Video Clip #3

  7. Panelist Adaptive Technology • What is JAWS? • What is ZoomText?

  8. Panelist Demonstrations • Navigation techniques • Good (well-designed) and bad (poorly-designed) sites • What helps panelists the most

  9. Panelists and Sakai • Things that work well • Things that could work better • Things that would be helpful

  10. Questions and Answers

  11. Wrap-up • Will look into making Morae videos from session available on server as .wmv files • Join the Accessibility Working Group to discuss other accessibility issues as they come up: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal

  12. Thank you to our panelists!

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