[nabs-l] Accessibility of Blackboard?

[Ashley Bramlett]

Liliya,
Oh are you at george mason? if so what is your major? When do you graduate?
I recall when I went to gmu before I transferred that they were just 
starting to use blackboard.

I wanted to know the current state of accessibility; do you get textbooks on 
time and in a usable format?
Please write me off list and share your experiences if you are a current or 
recent student. Yep, I heard professors love to put up files. Thankfully 
last semester I attended they use blackboard minimally; mainly to post 
announcements and grades, not documents. The issues I ran into back then 
like 7 years ago was the  group chat feature and submission of assignments 
was not accessible; and when I went to marymount, it still was not 
accessible.

I hate those inaccessible files.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Liliya Asadullina
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 5:11 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Blackboard?

Hey Everett,
As Brandon says, blackboard is just okay.
George mason University love to post their assignments on there all
the time.  I have ran into the same issues with opening and
downloading the PDF files.  My professors like to use image text files
for PDF.  I'm not sure how to convert the imaged text documents into
word without sighted assistance.   If I were you, I'd contact your CSU
professors ahead of time and ask if any of the stuff that they are
planning to post on blackboard are image jet peg PDF files.  Also, I
found out that using the Jaws cursor on blackboard helps me navigate
throughout my assignments more eficiently as well.

Let me know if you need editional help and I'll see what I could find out.
All the best,
Lily

On 12/2/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> Blackboard is OK, it takes a little poking around to find things, but 
> there
>
> is very little I have found that can't be found with persistence. I'm not
> sure why they don't switch to Etudes, because Blackboard is extremely
> limited, but that is another topic.
> The only difficulty I've had is downloading all the PDFs my teacher 
> uploads
>
> there, it takes for ever and one or two are not accessible from the get 
> go,
>
> so I have to pull out all my technology.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Everett Gavel
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 11:34 AM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nabs-l] Accessibility of Blackboard?
>
> Hello Again, All,
>
> Can any of you tell me good or bad points on using
> Blackboard? I remember that the 2010 (?) national
> NFB convention had a presentation on the
> accessibility of Blackboard. However, I've heard a
> few times that the upgrade(s) since then are less
> accessible, and that even that supposedly
> accessible version wasn't totally accessible. Can
> anyone clarify, or point me to some discussions or
> articles explaining such details, please? I'm
> thinking of switching from ashford to Colorado
> State U Online, and right now Ashford U is very
> accessible. But Ashford uses the Constellation
> classroom system, and CSU uses Blackboard.
>
> Thanks for any help with this.
>
>
> Strive On!
> Everett
> everett at everettgavel.com
>
>
>
>
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