[Athen] Request for Review of Place Value Explanation in Math for Bakery and Business

[Joshua Hori via athen-list]

Are the comments the [GL] and [/GL]? I don’t see the same comments for italics and I haven’t found any shaded content.

It would be better to inform the student of the bold and italic content so they can make audio profiles to hear it announced, if they want it. It’s a quick keyboard combination to switch profiles. Refreshable braille displays will have characters stating bold/italic content, so the additional comments aren’t necessary.

There are a number of tables on there which I don’t see captions for, and that helps screenreaders navigate through the different tables.

You can test out refreshable braille capabilities with the Accessible Equation Editor<https://www.lakepinesbraille.com/ee/>, which is a free service that works with Google Docs.

Best,


Joshua Hori

Accessible Technology Coordinator

Information Educational Technology

Academic Technology Services

50 Hutchison Dr.

Davis, CA 95616

530-752-2439

Schedule a meeting via Calendly<https://calendly.com/d/ytt-hsj-vbn>

From: athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman22.u.washington.edu> on behalf of Vicki Walton via athen-list <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu <athen-list at u.washington.edu>
Subject: [Athen] Request for Review of Place Value Explanation in Math for Bakery and Business

Hello everyone,

A colleague is reviewing a section in the Math for Bakery and Business textbook on page 13-15<https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GJ9MRb9zHAp-9xsF3xIAss3ry9uo3zbqafSUaDaVYg/edit?tab=t.0> where the author explains place values using underlines and shading. At this time, we are aware that screen readers do not typically announce formatting unless users change those advanced settings. I would appreciate it if someone could look at this portion of the text along with the comments that were shared about this approach.

If you have time to review the materials and offer your thoughts, your perspective would be very helpful.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Best regards,

Vicki


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