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<\/p>\nSome students are eligible to receive alternative-format versions of their textbooks. Because of the time involved in acquiring books in alternative formats and scanning books, we ask instructors to select classroom texts as early as possible before the start of the term.<\/p>\n
Students with e-text as an accommodation may need to access accessible versions of electronic documents in order to have them available on their computer to read with their reading aloud technology, screen reading technology, or for physical access reasons. Articles for class and handouts should be posted to your course site in an accessible, electronic format. For more information on what is required to make an electronic document accessible, please review the content listed below.<\/p>\n
Please note that the CLASS office may be in touch with you if a student reports inaccessible documents posted to your course site.<\/p>\n
Scanned articles or scanned books are often not an accessible option for students who have e-text as an accommodation because the scans render as images instead of selectable and navigable text.<\/p>\n
Please review your course site for any potential scanned documents, and follow the procedures featured on this site for next steps. Additionally, listed below is an example of a quality document with selectable text and an inaccessible scanned document.<\/p>\n
Please note that the following image shows an electronic document with selectable text that will most likely read well with assistive technologies. This does not mean that all documents that you can select the text are fully accessible, but it is a good starting point and a general indicator that the document may be accessible.<\/p>\n
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Please note that the following images are scanned sideways and have notes and highlights that negatively impact the accessibility of the documents. Scans like these make it challenging for students to interact and read the content.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/div>\nOCR stands for Optical Character Recognition. OCRing a document does not make it fully accessible. However, it does significantly improve access for many students. The CLASS Office will contact you if additional remediation is needed beyond an OCR scan.<\/p>\n
If you must scan a document, please use a campus scanner that has a built-in OCR scanning feature.<\/p>\n
We also have a free tool available to all faculty members called Read & Write. This program might already be on your Augsburg laptop. Check with you LFC to confirm and\/or if you need assistance installing it. Once installed, you can login using your Augsburg email and use Read & Write\u2019s virtual OCR scanner to re-scan any documents that you previously used that never received an OCR scan or any new ones that may have missed the OCR scan.<\/p>\n
If you have determined you must scan a document or book and you plan to use the OCR feature, please note that the quality of the scan matters.<\/p>\n
If you have provided a quality scan and you have used the OCR feature, please highlight the document with your cursor to ensure the OCR scanned in the correct reading order. Please note, that additional remediation and testing will be needed if a student in your course uses screen reading software. The CLASS Office will be in contact with you to assist if this is the case.<\/p>\n
Please review the following resources improve accessibility when creating Microsoft and Google documents:<\/p>\n
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