[NABS-L] Your Input on Learning Management Systems

[JASON ALAMILLO]

Hello all, I have also used Blackboard and Canvas. I have to say that there are thing that I do like about Canvas and things that I don’t like at all. I know someone talked about the web cam not being very accessible or useable and the microphone is not very good for recording assignments, so that is why I use the video feature on my phone, record it and upload it. I do think that Canvas could be more accessible when it comes to uploading assignments. For example when I click on upload a file, it doesn’t tell me if the file I selected was attached successfully or not. This is why I have to send professors emails with my assignments as well. For writing emails, when I type in a name to search for, I have to press the down arrow, then press enter in order to select the name of the person I want to send the email to. And then I have to do a shift tab in order to hear if the person I wanted was successfully selected. When trying to select multiple people to send an email to, and it is not meant for the whole class, it gives me many issues. I use both Jaws and VoiceOver to navigate Canvas, and depending on the situation, I use one or the other. Hope this helps.

> On Jan 28, 2020, at 1:13 PM, Camille Tate via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I have been using Canvas for several years. I find the controls for using the microphone to be unreadable and must find another way to record assignments. Additionally, the webcam has never seemed to work. Some of the lesson content has been inaccessible, but I attribute that to how the instructor creates the lessons, rather than Canvas. Other than having to either arrow up or down when taking a quiz or test, I have no other negatives about Canvas. In fact, I have found it to be the most accessible LMS I have ever used and I have used Blackboard and Angel. I am a JAWS user. 
> 
> Camille 
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> From: NABS-L <nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org <mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org>> On Behalf Of ellen bartelt via NABS-L
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> Subject: Re: [NABS-L] Your Input on Learning Management Systems
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> On 1/28/20, D'Agostino, Alfred via NABS-L <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> If you have had first-hand non-visual experience using JAWS, NVDA or 
>> BoiceOver with any of the following Learning Management Systems:
>> Brightspace, Blackboard or Canvas, would you please provide me with 
>> specific positive and negative comments about features that work/ 
>> don’t work? Your anonymous responses will be considered for general evaluation purposes.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> Alfred T. D'Agostino, Ph.D.
>> Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
>> Notre Dame of Maryland University
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>> com JAWS works really well with Blackboard. Sometimes when taking a 
>> quiz everytime you move onto a new question it brings you all the way to the top of the page. You have to use the arrow keys to move down to the question. Other times you press the up arrow to find your question. It is very easy to find files that professors post to Blackboard. JAWS sometimes will not read the files if they are scanned in from a book.
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