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20,000 pages and Counting: Improving Accessibility of Files Delivered through Learning Management Systems
Krista GreearAccess Text and Technology [email protected]
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What are we discussing today?
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Background
> Work at Disability Resources for Students> Provide academic accommodations> Create documents in a way that can be
accessed through visual, auditory and tactile means
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Game-changing question
My professor distributes electronic readings
through online course system. Can those be
made accessible?
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Maybe you’ve heard of these:
> Canvas> Moodle> Blackboard> Desire2Learn> And so on….
At UW, we predominantly use Canvas and Catalyst, a home-grown system.
Discussion boards and files distribution are most commonly used features of LMS on campus.
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The Star-Nosed Mole!
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My questions
>What classes were using LMSs?>What kind of content is distributed
through LMSs?>How much content?>How accessible is it?
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Data mining
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Process for File Evaluation
1. Asked to be added to courses LMS via email.
2. Download all files. 3. Use keyboard shortcuts to get file
names into a template Excel spreadsheet.
4. Had student workers evaluate each file. 5. Aggregate data into one spreadsheet. 6. Ask my questions again.
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What classes were using LMSs?What kind of content is distributed through LMSs?How much content?
Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014 Autumn 2014
# classes evaluated 28 58 28 31
# files (pdfs, word docs, powerpoint, excel, text files)
1,097 2,003 753 1,598
# pages (pdfs, word docs, powerpoint, excel, text files) distributed through LMS that DRS evaluated
20,373 34,492 9,445 26,808
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Hold your breathe, we’re diving deeper…
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How accessible is it? – Word Docs
Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014
Autumn 2014
# word docs 188 298 144 200
% of files distributed that were word docs
17% 15% 19% 16%
% of word docs that had headings
7% 10% 8% 20%
% of word docs that didn’t have headings
93% 90% 92% 80%
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How accessible is it? – PDFs text selectability
Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014
Autumn 2014
# pdfs 806 1476 528 1,255
% of files distributed that were pdfs
74% 74% 70% 79%
% pdfs that were text selectable that DRS didn't have to convert
78% 77% 27% 69%
% pdfs that text was not selectable OR text was not accurate
22% 23% 73% 31%
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How accessible is it? – PDFs structure*
Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014
Autumn 2014
# pdfs 806 1476 528 1,255
% pdfs that had either tags or bookmarks
21% 25% 16% 22%
% pdfs that had both tags/bookmarks
8% 5% 5% 7%
% pdfs that had neither tags or bookmarks
71% 70% 79% 71%
*Tags were evaluated only if they existed, not for accuracy
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Okay, come up for air
What does this data tell me?
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Results summary
> There is a lot of content being distributed through LMSs
> Necessary data mining took time> 18% of documents distributed are word docs
– 90% of those word docs do not have headings
> 70% of documents distributed are PDFs– 23% of those PDFs do not have quality text– 75% of PDFs have no structure
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What’s the game plan?
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Accommodation perspective (retroactive)
> DS performs accessibility audit of files distributed through LMS
> DS converts files and return to faculty> Provide lab with scanners, software and hardware
to students to convert materials themselves > Have an online student-self serve option
– SensusAccess: online file conversion system for quick, temporary solution
> Access perspective (have content creators make creating accessible-born documents)– Files are created with everyone in mind
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Access perspective (proactive)
> Provide information about how to create accessible documents – http://www.washington.edu/accessibility/
> Partner with Center for Teaching and Learning to disseminate information and tools like CAR Check
> Work with specific department or faculty member to evaluate and fix files before distributed to class– Need more experience about faculty perspective