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Enabling Technology
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Jason Morningstar: ITS Communications
Mark: Musicology Grad Student
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Position:
- Assists UNC Disability Dept
- Evaluates resources, works with webmasters, policies, federal mandates
- Support assistive technology (help students, assist with classroom design)
- Training: 6–8 classes
- Advocate for policy
- Keep up with technology
- Advocate for system-wide resources
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Electronic Content
- “Accessibility as a subset of useability” approach
- Flash: many uses are very inaccessible (drag and drop)
- Descriptive audio
- controls neccessary to work with screen reader
- another voice to describe background
- “Just enough info in a small space without disrupting dialog” -Mark
- On a second track for DVDs etc (SAP)
- Currently no good accessible DVD players, iPods etc
- iPod audio interface (Mark was very enthusiastic about this idea)
- Currently no standard for any video display (DVD/TV menus etc)
- Have to memmorize button combinations
- Current UNC policy on web accessibility: none
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Webmasters
- Usual question, What do I have to do?: state/federal mandates (alt tags etc)
- Online guidelines ideal
- Functional vs technical (Mark helps with testing)
- Most ppl with disabilities use ie (this is changing though)
- Finished up with Mark’s music theory rant
- “Read one for me” – Mark on being able to read a book.
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