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From: Lucy Greco
Date: Oct 24, 2011 12:51PM

Hi:
This is meant to be steps used while moving forward. I have been asked to give a three or four step process to make sure readings for students are accessible basically it's a set of instructions I am to give to faculty to assure that the documents they put online e are accessible. These documents might be scanned articles library readings exerts from books and so on. I have been told that it cannot be more than three or four steps so that it would not be intimidating and that talking about structure and tagging is getting to technical. I am at a loss really because what I think I am being asked to say is that providing the text is all that is needed. And I really don't want to say that. One of the other things I was asked was if there was a way to flag a potential problem document on the way to it being uploaded. I am really frustrated on this process I know access is not extraordinarily hard but three or four steps is not enough ether. At least I am not looking at making
forms in this project. I have to have the documents be usable by a highly intelligent group. but I have also been told that the faculty don't want steps that will take more than a few minutes to do.


Lucy Greco
Assistive Technology Specialist
Disabled Student's Program UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7591
http://attlc.berkeley.edu
http://webaccess.berkeley.edu