hello, I am the fell who responded to your original email RE: D2L. in that email, i said the following, and it still holds true, even with the beta of jaws 17. d2l is inaccessible. no content reads, though menus read with options selected. always show dialogs as pub ups needs to be set to on. additionally, set the calendar to agenda view, set emails to send to your email account, not your school's, set d2l to always go to your course page, not course home, and hope the content creater makes their course content accessible, as accessibility of this area of d2l, depends on the content creater(s). most of this information, i learned from my former community college, which i withdrew from, do to inaccessibility of d2l. I do not, recommend, under any circumstance, you, partake in your afford mentioned courses. myself, the first time, with another platform, the learning manager, took a course through other meens, arranged with my instructor, ended up in the mental health unit, at the local hospit al. I do not, recommend, anybody, use d2l for anything. it's more trouble than it's worth. unless your course is a required credit, which I hope it is not, use d2l only if you cannot make alternate arangments with your professor(s). what i did for my course, orginational behaviour, was, used a combination of email and the telephone. me and my instructer, would talk, after each quiz on the telephone, and assignments and quizzes were emailed to my schools address through that community college. this was back, before, jaws had document OCR for PDFS, so inaccessible PDFS were sent to me, eventually with accessible, searchable PDFS, created. for this course oi withdrew from, introduction to programming: python, the PDFS are image base, inaccessible. all this accessible content should have been figured out, long before i enrolled in that course. of course, asper the community college's style, they left it up to me, inspire of their fancy job titles, which imply they know something of acce ssibility for jaws users, and screen reader users, in general, as I use a multitude of screen readers, on different platforms. if i told them that, they would have freek out. stick with the hadley school for thee blind, and the cisco acamity for the vision impaired. mainstream institutions, do not give a rats ass about us blind people, they see us as a burden to make money off of. thanks, Daniel Angus Mac Donald
On 2015-10-03, at 12:18 AM, Kimsan <kimsans...@charter.net> wrote: > I emailed about this weeks ago, a fella responded, but since I got stupid > and messed with my email, I lost his. > > > > Anyways, I got a response from someone at the college concerning d2l and > it's level of success and accessibility. Read on. > > > > Dear Kimsan, > > > > Thank you for your email and interest in the VIL program. Thank you for > being so proactive and researching accessibilty at PSU. Throughout the > program's history, we have had numerous students who are blind successfully > complete the program. > > > > D2L is accessible using JAWS but some students who are blind have reported > that it is not user friendly. There are some tips and tricks for navigating > the system. In addition, I and other faculty in the program are working > diligently on making the courses more accessible for those who use screen > readers. > > > > Below is a link to information about D2L and its accessibility. > > > > https://documentation.desire2learn.com/en/Accessibility > > > > The Disability Resource Center will be a valuable resource for you and I > suggest you connect with their office sooner than later to express your > concerns. While staff do not provide training in how to access D2L, they can > help with some trouble shooting. > > > > http://www.pdx.edu/drc/ > > > > Kimsan Song > > kimsans...@charter.net > > > > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
