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From: Kolitsky, Michael A PHD
Date: Jun 12, 2018 12:39PM

I think I may have sent Sarah the following two web pages, one of which looks at a 3D print of a bar graph and compares it to how the same graph would appear designed as a table for a screen reader. Note that the bar graph is laid atop an iPad Pro in a 3D printed holder so that a finger touch now produces the information for the bar graph labels and bar graph results. This approach provides access according to the user's choice rather than how one would have to go through a table in linear fashion. Check out http://www.nextgenemedia.com/3DprintComplexGraphics.html to see more of what I mean.

The other web address shows how one might take the images in an Open Education Resource such as the OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology I etext and adds links below each graphic where a raised line graphic made into a template can be laid atop an iPad and then when touching the raised line graphic, audio can be generated speaking the name of the structure or region being touched. Compare this to the alt text for those images which simply lists all the names for the structures or regions which doesn't help at all in pointing out to a screen reader the link between the alt text names and where they are located on the drawing of the human male or female. This link is at http://www.nextgenemedia.com/Anatomical%20Terminology%20-%20Anatomy%20&;%20Physiology%20-%20OpenStax%20CNX.html .

Hope this helps

Mike

Michael Kolitsky, Ph.D.
Online Adjunct Professor
Biological Sciences
The University of Texas at El Paso
609-399-2431
www.nextgenemedia.com/kolitskycv.html

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