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Subject:	Re: Does anyone have any experience with CourseSmart texts?
From:	"Gunderson, Jon R" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Equal Access to Software & Information <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:23:19 +0000
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Illinois had an opportunity to join the Educause trial program with Course Smart, but one of the reasons I was told Illinois did not apply is the concerns over accessibility of the technology to people with disabilities.

Jon Gunderson
Illinois

From: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:08:45 -0600
To: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: Does anyone have any experience with CourseSmart texts?

At the NFB conference last December (2011) the folks from CourseSmart presented. Steve is correct that self identified students get a different login that takes them to unprotected areas. Here they get HTML versions of the digital books. As of last December, they were still primarily a PDF process and the PDF is converted to their proprietary format; the accessible versions go to HTML. They provided information about their automatic process. One point made was that if students commented on the quality, or lack of the quality, then they would put it through a process to upgrade from the automatic process.

There has been discussion about going to EPUB 3 as more publishers have this native accessible format available.

Best
George

From: Equal Access to Software & Information [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Debi Turner
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:54 AM
To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Does anyone have any experience with CourseSmart texts?

Hi everyone -

Doing some research/investigation into how accessible (or possibly not) CourseSmart materials are.

Does anyone have any experience they could share.

TIA!

d:)

Debi Turner
Assistive Technician, Disability Services
Humber ITAL
Student Success & Engagement
Room A120, Lakeshore Campus
3199 Lake Shore Blvd. W.
Toronto, Ontario
M8V 1K8
Tel:   (416) 675-6622, ext. 3268
Fax:  (416) 252-8800
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