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From: Sylvia Richardson
Date: Tue, Jun 02 2015 1:56PM
Subject: Online presentations with audio and captions
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Hello everyone,

I am looking for some recommendations for accessible e-learning tools. My company wants to post presentations online as learning aids, along with an audio track explaining the slides. They also want to be able to add captions, for deaf/hard-of-hearing folks. They have been using Brainshark, but it converts all the slides to flash-based images and does not allow for caption tracks. Does anyone have suggestions for more accessible tools? We don't need any fancy features like quizzes.

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From: Moore,Michael (HHSC)
Date: Tue, Jun 02 2015 1:59PM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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I think that you can probably accomplish what you want using Soft Chalk. The output of Soft Chalk is HTML and you can embed an audio player. The accessibility support is simple.

Mike Moore
HHS Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Civil Rights
(512) 438-3431 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)

From: Miller, Derella
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 9:10AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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Yes, take a look at Techsmith' s Camtasia (www.techsmith.com) for creating closed-captioning for video clips and Articulate Storyline (www.articulate.com) for creating accessible elearning.

Derella Miller
Employee Development Specialist
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Department of Treasury

From: Moore,Michael (HHSC)
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 9:21AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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Do you have an example of an accessible training created in Articulate Storyline? If so please share a link because I have never seen one. I have seen plenty of inaccessible examples though.

The types of problems that I typically find with Articulate generated training are:

1. Inability to inherit high contrast settings from OS.
2. Inability of user to control font size.
3. Focus order - particularly after pressing the forward button where the user is not placed at the start of the content.
4. Lack of heading or list structure.
5. Images used instead of text.
6. Inability to skip repetitive content.
7. Links that do not function with the keyboard.

Mike Moore
HHS Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Civil Rights
(512) 438-3431 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)

From: Miller, Derella
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 9:55AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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Here is an example from Articulate's (community) site, Elearning Heros:
https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples/storyline-508-compliant-demo

Please share your thoughts about this example.

Thanks,
Derella Miller
Employee Development Specialist
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Department of Treasury

From: Paul J. Adam
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 10:04AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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It's a Flash slideshow training widget so not possible to be accessible anywhere except on Windows. No iPhone, no Mac. I see it's keyboard accessible on Mac though in Chrome.

The linked page has 21 FireEyes issues and 72 HTML_CodeSniffer errors.

Paul J. Adam
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> On Jun 3, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Miller, Derella < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> Here is an example from Articulate's (community) site, Elearning Heros:
> https://community.articulate.com/e-learning-examples/storyline-508-compliant-demo
>
> Please share your thoughts about this example.
>
> Thanks,
> Derella Miller
> Employee Development Specialist
> Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
> Department of Treasury
>
>

From: Sylvia Richardson
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 10:16AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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I just did some quick screen reader tests on Windows to see how far I could get. It did not work at all in Chrome/Chromevox (not surprising) and was moderately usable but fairly difficult to navigate with Firefox/NVDA. I was not able to use it with IE/Jaws (all the buttons came through as unlabeled), but I only have access to Jaws 13 and IE8 on this machine. It may work with newer versions.

The demo did not load at all on my iOS test devices, so it doesn't seem like there is a mobile fallback.

-Sylvia

From: Jim Allan
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 10:28AM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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worked with jaws 16 and IE11. no output in Jaws with FF or Chrome.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Sylvia Richardson <
= EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:

> I just did some quick screen reader tests on Windows to see how far I
> could get. It did not work at all in Chrome/Chromevox (not surprising) and
> was moderately usable but fairly difficult to navigate with Firefox/NVDA. I
> was not able to use it with IE/Jaws (all the buttons came through as
> unlabeled), but I only have access to Jaws 13 and IE8 on this machine. It
> may work with newer versions.
>
> The demo did not load at all on my iOS test devices, so it doesn't seem
> like there is a mobile fallback.
>
> -Sylvia
>
>

From: Moore,Michael (HHSC)
Date: Wed, Jun 03 2015 3:02PM
Subject: Re: Online presentations with audio and captions
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I found the following issues:

1. No heading structure
2. OS high contrast settings were ignored
3. Browser controls for setting text size and magnification were ignored
4. Keyboard focus incorrect on the final page
5. No transcript of video for access by deaf/blind
6. Audio on slides did not function. IE8/Win 7

Note, I did not perform testing with AT. I am waiting for the software to be installed on the new computer.

Mike Moore
HHS Accessibility Coordinator
Office of Civil Rights
(512) 438-3431 (Office)
(512) 574-0091 (Cell)